Col Nick Lipscombe
Accomplished historian, author and lecturer
Colonel Nicolas (Nick) Lipscombe MSc FRHistS served for 34 years in the British Army. He is an accomplished historian, author, lecturer and battlefield guide. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016. His works include the (Daily Telegraph) award-winning Peninsular War Atlas and Concise History, Wellington’s Guns, Wellington Invades France, the official Waterloo 200 Bicentenary compendium, Wellington’s Eastern Front and most recently, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51, which was selected in 2021 as the runner-up for the prestigious Templar Medal. He is a long-term tutor at the University of Oxford and a member of numerous historical societies. He plays the drums and is an active MAMIL.
