9 U S A ( To l l - f r e e ) 1-877-381-2914 E m a i l info@theculturalexperience.com The Cultural Experience team outside our offices in Salisbury, Wiltshire. From left to right: Billy Grimes (Research Assistant) Claire Shaw (Accounts Manager) Shaun Bartlett (Marketing Manager) Alan Rooney (Managing Director) Emma Curteis (Operations Manager) Shaun Smith (Tour Manager) Col Ray Wilkinson QVRM TD VR, is Chief Executive of the Reserve Forces & Cadets Association for East Anglia and a Visiting Lecturer at Kingston University. A romantic idealist at heart, Ray is fascinated by the ‘human spirit’ aspects of military history. He has been leading tours for many years, initially to First and Second World War sites and, in recent years, to Spain to satisfy his particular interest in the British Battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Dr Paul Wordsworth is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College), focussing on the archaeology of the medieval Caucasus and Central Asia. He is currently directing a new archaeological project exploring the remains of a frontier city of the early Islamic Caliphate in Azerbaijan and writing a book on medieval caravanserais and the practice early Islamic travel in the deserts of Central Asia. meet The Team