7 U S A ( To l l - f r e e ) 1- 877- 381- 2 9 14 E m a i l inf o@the culturalexperience.com Dr Andy Fear was born in Morecambe and educated at Lancaster RGS and New College Oxford where he obtained his BA and D Phil (on Roman Spain). After a brief spell at Jesus, Oxford he went on to teach Classics at the Universities of Keele and Manchester. An ardent Hispanophile, his academic interests and publications cover the provinces of the Western Roman Empire (especially Britain and Spain), ancient and medieval Warfare, and the Iberian peninsula. Dr Neil Faulkner, FSA is a leading conflict archaeologist and military historian, works as a writer, editor, lecturer, and occasional broadcaster. He is the editor of Military History Monthly and the author of ten books. His many TV appearances include Channel 4’s Time Team, BBC2’s Timewatch, and Sky Atlantic’s The British. Professor Orlando Figes graduated with a doublestarredfirstinHistoryfromCambridge in 1982. His 2002 history of Russian culture, Natasha'sDancereceivedwidecriticalacclaim, whilst his 1996 award winning A People's Tragedy, a study of Russia from the famine of 1891 to the death of Lenin in 1924, was described by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the “hundred most influential books since the war". More recently he was historical consultant to the 2012 film Anna Karenina and the BBC's 2016 War and Peace series." Eamonn Gearon is an historian and analyst who has lived and worked across the Middle East for twenty years. Like T. E. Lawrence, he is a noted desert explorer, whose camel-powered Saharan explorations grew out of time spent with the Bedu in the Libyan Desert. Eamonn works as a Special Adviser to government and military and is an analyst of Islamist terrorist groups. Author of The Sahara: A Cultural History which the BBC described as “vital background reading for anyone who wants to understand the deep roots of the Arab Spring campaigns.” Major General John Drewienkiewicz CB CMG or ‘DZ’, is a former Engineer-in-Chief of the British Army who spent years in Bosnia and Kosovo in the late 1990s. After 20 years of walking European and American battlefields, the Balkans sparked his interest in the wars of the mid-19th century, from the 1859 Italian War, through the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 to the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. He has written five books which examine campaigns through the lens of wargaming, his latest on Königgrätz was published earlier this year. Major Nigel Dunkley is a former Royal Scots Dragoon Guard. Nigel performed intelligence gathering duties in the former East Germany with BRIXMIS during the Cold War. He was awarded the MBE and Bronze Star Medal for his services with the US 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Desert Storm. He was Chief of Staff at the Royal Armoured Corp Centre at Bovington, ending his army career as Defence Attaché at the British Embassy in Berlin. Fred Hawthorne BA served with the United States Air Force during the latter stages of the Vietnam War. In the 30 years since, Fred has earned a series of university degrees in American History, US Colonial History and Historical Archaeology – and he has conducted more than 5,000 tours on these themes. He now lives practically on the battlefield at Gettysburg and is one of the most experienced experts on Civil War battlefields. Colonel Robert Kershaw BA served in the armyasaParatrooper.Heisnowanestablished military historian, author and commentator. An internationally acknowledged expert on the Eastern Front, he has also published books on a wide range of battles and campaigns, including Red Sabbath - The Battle of The Little Bighorn, and BattlesthatChangedtheWorld, in which he takes a unique view of the battles of Stalingrad, Hastings and Waterloo and AStreet in Arnhem. Ian Knight is a writer and historian who is internationally regarded as a leading authority on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He has published over forty books and monographs, the majority of them on Zulu history and the rest on other nineteenth- century British colonial campaigns. He has appeared on-screen in a number of television documentaries. Simon JonesMA,formerlycuratorattheRoyal Engineers and King’s Liverpool Regiment Museums, has guided at battlefields around the world since 1997. The author of books on tunnelling and gas warfare during the First World War, he has taught the First World War at Liverpool and Lancaster Universities and has Masters Degrees from Liverpool and Leicester Universities.