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! Dr Peter Schrijvers is the author of six books on the Second World War and the Ardennes offensive published by, among others, ffensive published by, among others, ff Cambridge and Yale. He specializes in making us understand how ordinary people, soldiers and civilians, experience the extraordinary circumstances of battle, and currently serves as an historical advisor for the Bastogne Memorial. 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. 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. Professor Andrew Poulter is a research professor at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Roman archaeology of Europe (Italy, especially Pompeii, Britain, France and Germany). His primary research interests are in the Balkans where he has carried out three large scale excavations and intensive survey- the city of Nicopolis ad Istrum, the hill-top fort of Dobri Dyal and the late Roman fortress of Dichin. AmandaPavlickMAisaRomanarchaeologist 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, and has undertaken fieldwork in the 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. 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. Colonel Nick Lipscombe MSc FRHistS served for 34 years in the British Army; seeing operational duty with the British and American armies. He is an accomplished Napoleonic historian with an extensive knowledge of the Peninsular War. His works include Wellington’s Guns, Wellington Invades France, the official Waterloo 200 Bicentenary book Waterloo, A Decisive Victory and most Waterloo, A Decisive Victory and most Waterloo, A Decisive Victory recently Wellington’s Eastern Front. He is currently writing and designing an Atlas of the English Civil War along similar lines to his award-winning Peninsular War Atlas. Patrick Mercer OBE read history at Oxford University where he studied the Napoleonic Wars and the military philosophy of Clausewitz in detail. Having joined the Sherwood Foresters, he then went on to enjoy active service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Uganda. He has been a journalist, painter, author and MP. Published many times, his interests are the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean and Indian Mutiny campaigns and the fighting in Italy in the Second World War. Dr Ryan Lavelle, FRHistS is Reader in Medieval History at Winchester University. Author of a range of publications on the lands and politics of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, he was historical adviser on the BBC TV adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom, whilst his own book Alfred’s Wars (2010) was awarded the prestigious Verbruggen prize by the Society for Medieval Military History in 2012, and his most recent credits include contributing to and editing the important collection of essaysDanesinWessex (2016).