8 V i s i t www.theculturalexperience.com C a l l 0345 475 1815 Dr John Sadler FRHistS is a lawyer and a lecturer in War Studies at the University of Sunderland Centre for Lifelong Learning. An experienced and entertaining battlefield tour guide,heisalsowidelypublishedonmedieval themes, the Scottish Wars and The First World War. He is an acknowledged authority on medieval armour and weapons and adopts an interactive approach with his audience with demonstrations of swordplay, musket drill and the odd dash of drama! Alan Rooney MBA A historian by preference and a tour operator by profession, Alan is the founder and managing director of The Cultural Experience and before that was managing director at Holts Tours and Midas Tours. He is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society. a member of the Royal Historical Society and the British Commission for Military History and has been exploring and guiding on battlefields of the Napoleonic period for over 20 years - and still keeps his hand in by regularly leading tours. Dr Matthias Strohn WFRHistS was educated at the University of Münster (Germany) and Oxford. He is a senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Matthias is a specialist in the history of the German army in the two World Wars. He has published widely on this subject and he has written and edited 5 books and numerous articles. Matthias holds a commission in the German army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with both the British Army and the German Bundeswehr. DrSimonTrewis a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Since 1994 he has developed an enthusiastic interest in the Normandy campaign and, as well as lecturing widely on the campaign, has appeared in numerous TV documentaries on this and other military subjects. In 2009 he was nominated for a prestigious 'Emmy' award for his research in support of a television documentary on the D-Day assault at Omaha Beach. Dr Amanda Pavlick MA is a Roman archaeologist who specializes in the material culture of Roman cities and pre-Roman Italy. She has taught Roman and Greek art and archaeology, warfare in ancient literature, and the archaeology of ancient Egypt at the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University,andhasundertakenfieldworkinthe Republic of Georgia, England, and Italy. She has notably spent seven seasons excavating a neighbourhood south of the theatre district in ancient Pompeii, an archaeological site with which she is more than well versed. Dr Munro Price was born in London and educated there and at Cambridge, where he went on to complete a PhD. Now Professor of Modern European History at Bradford University, he has also taught at the University of Lyon. His main contribution to Napoleonic history is his most recent book, Napoleon: the End of Glory which sheds new light on Napoleon's fall from the retreat from Moscow to exile on Elba, using previously unexploited archives in France, Austria and the Czech Republic. Alan Wakefield graduated from the University of Reading in 1990 with a degree in History and followed this with an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. Having worked as a curator at the National Maritime Museum and RAF Museum, Alan qualified withanMAinMuseumStudiesfromUniversity College London. He is co-author of Under the Devil’s Eye: Britain’s Forgotten Army at Salonika 1915-1918 and Christmas in the Trenches 1914 – 1918 and is currently Chairman of the Salonika Campaign Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History. Major General Ashley Truluck CB CBE BA is an ex Gurkha and Signaller who has enjoyed a lifelong fascination for military history and battlefield touring. A history graduate, he studied strategy at the Royal College of Defence Studies,actsasaDefenceAdviserandiscurrently Chairman of the Society for Army Historical Research. He leads a variety of tours for TCE and has made a particular study of Wellington’s campaigns and leadership style. Dr Rita Roussos studied ancient Greek and Latin at the University of California, Berkeley and completed her PhD in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. For many years she was Professor of Art History and Classical Archaeology and Head of the Liberal Arts Department at the American University of Athens. She has participated in several archaeological excavations in Greece and conducted archaeometric investigations at Isthmia, Loussous and Mantinea. Tony O’Connor FSA studied Ancient History and Archaeology at Manchester University where he specialised in the Roman Empire and the world of the Phoenicians. After working across the Mediterranean and the UK as a field archaeologist he began a career in museums first as a curator and then as a service director. Tony who has many years’ experience of leading tours is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.