6 V i s i t www.theculturalexperience.com C a l l 0345 475 1815 OUR GUIDES Our Guides are selected for three attributes: all are accomplished experts in their own fields – whether as acclaimed academics, proven historians or distinguished soldier practitioners. They must also be able to tell their story in an interesting and engaging manner ‘in the field’ – and be prepared to continue the discussion over dinner in the evenings. It is this combination of expert, raconteur and host that makes our guides special – and is key to the success of The Cultural Experience. Dr Bruce Cherry has had a varied career as university lecturer and journalist. His doctorate is in military history and he has been guiding tours of the First and Second World War European battlefields for over 30 years. His latest book They didn’t want to die VirginsexaminingsexandmoraleintheBritish Army on the Western Front was published in January 2016. Katie Campbell has worked as an archaeologist for the past decade throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, and is now completing a doctorate at the University of Oxford looking at the impact of the Mongol Conquests on the cities of Central Asia and the Caucasus. She is currently excavating Medieval Cities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Professor Tim Cole teaches history at the University of Bristol and is an expert on the history, representation and memorialisation of the Holocaust. A popular guide on this specialist subject, he is the author of Images of the Holocaust (1999), Holocaust City (2003) and Traces of the Holocaust (2011) and has just completed a book on Holocaust Landscapes. Tim Clayton MA, FSA is the author of a number of books on military history including Trafalgar: the Men, the Battle, the Storm, Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe’s Destiny and, most recently, This Dark Business: the Secret War against Napoleon. He was co- curator of the British Museum exhibition Bonaparte and the British in 2015 and is a Senior Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Major Gordon Corrigan MBE was an officer in the Gurkhas before retiring from the Army in 1998. He is now a military historian and author of numerous books. His television appearances include The Gurkhas, Napoleon’s Waterloo and Battlefield Detectives. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the British Commission for Military History. Major Imogen Corrigan BA Hons, like her husband, served as a Major in the British Army. She is an expert in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History and is currently studying part-time for an M.Litt at Birmingham University. She has lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon and medieval subjects in Britain and Europe and is a NADFAS lecturer. Dr Waitman Beorn is a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is also a consultant and writer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr Beorn was previously Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. His first book, Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, was published in 2014 and won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book from Harvard Press. Dr Martin Boycott-Brown A childhood fascination with Napoleon was reawakened whilst Martin was living near Verona, leading to eight years of research on Napoleon's first campaign in Italy. He walked battlefields, spoke to locals, found previously ignored Italian and German sources, went back to earlier French theorists to better understand how Napoleon worked, and strove to find eye-witness sources, all of which proved far more interesting than the myths perpetuated in so many books. It is their authenticity which forms the basis of Martin’s approach.