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Alfred Rowe |
| Alfred Rowe is a British architect, architectural historian, lecturer and broadcaster. He was elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London. He has lectured extensively In the UK, Europe, Australia and the States at many universities, the American Institute of Architects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the British Embassy. |
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Ann Clements |
| Ann Clements read History of Art and English at Manchester University, then worked for the Whitworth Art Gallery, and later for the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art. She was an associate lecturer for Surrey University and has taught on day and summer schools and lectured at the V & A Museum and for the National Trust. |
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Anne-Marie Harrison |
| Anne-Marie Harrison was born and brought up in Paris but has subsequently lived in many different countries. Originally a linguist, she adapted to the many changes brought by the various relocations due to her British husband's job. She spent 16 years in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia) during which time she became involved with the local culture and languages through work in national Museums which led to lecturing and a Master's in anthropology (EHESS, Sorbonne) on her return to France in 1995. |
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Anthony Weld Forester |
| Anthony was educated at Harrow, the Eurocentro in Florence and Magdelen College, Oxford. He has worked for Sotheby’s for 34 years, as Auctioneer, Picture Expert and Managing Director of Scotland. He has enjoyed lecturing for NADFAS and many other groups including on cruises, especially in the Mediterranean. |
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Canon Dr Anne Davison |
| Anne has had a life-long interest in history and the religions of the world. This led to studying both topics for her first Degree and later for her Doctorate. She spent several years living in Africa and Switzerland and this experience added to her interest in different cultures. For many years she was Adviser in Inter Religious Relations with the Church of England. She was also Vice Moderator of the World Council of Churches in Geneva and has sat on numerous advisory bodies for Inter Religious Relations both overseas and in the United Kingdom. She is currently Visiting Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. |
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Caroline Aston |
| Caroline is a regular contributor to the UK premier royalty magazine 'Majesty' and she has also written for 'The Daily Telegraph'. She was one of the specially commissioned group of essayists who wrote the acclaimed collection of pieces published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales' death and HM The Queen's 80th birthday. She has filmed a BBC mini-series on British stately homes and acts as an historical advisor to several BBC stations. |
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Chris Bailey |
| Chris Bailey read history at Cambridge specialising in modern European history and then joined the coal industry where he was involved in restructuring and privatisation. After gaining an MBA at Manchester Business School, he became a management consultant in Eastern Europe and Africa working particularly in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Ukraine and Russia on projects funded by the European Union or the British government. He lectured widely for Hull University on its post graduate business courses. |
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Chris Newlands |
| Chris was born in West Yorkshire and his love of drama and the stage led to him going to Bristol University to study Drama and French, before his love for travel took him to Algeria, where he remained for two years, teaching English and encouraging an interest in theatre, music and the arts on behalf of the British Council. |
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Dame Margaret Anstee DCMG |
| Margaret Anstee served the United Nations for over four decades (1952-93), rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General in 1987. During her career she lived in fifteen different countries, visited over 130 on official mission and worked on many different aspects of the organisation’s work. |
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Denise Heywood |
| Denise Heywood is a lecturer, author, journalist and photographer. She has lived in France, America and, most recently, Cambodia, where she worked as a journalist for three years. Now based in London, she is a lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies (NADFAS), for the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) on their post-graduate Asian Art Course and for Madingley Hall (University of Cambridge). She has lectured all over Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Europe for organisations such as The British Museum, The Art Fund, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Asia House, The National Trust, Farnham Castle Centre for International Briefing and universities. |
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Dr Alan Borg |
| Alan started his career teaching in American universities. In 1970 he joined the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London and in 1978 he was appointed the first Keeper of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia. In 1982 he became Director General of the Imperial War Museum, and in 1996 was appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is currently Librarian of the Order of St John and St John Ambulance and Vice-President of the Foundling Museum. He is married to (Lady) Caroline Borg. |
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Dr Daniel Jones |
| Dan Jones holds a PhD (School of History, University of East Anglia), an MA (Institute of Historical Research University of London) and Diploma in Archaeology (Institute of Archaeology). He is an ex IT Manager, Education Department, the London Borough of Croydon. He has been a Member of Kent Archaeological Society since 1965, and a Member of Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society and Research Group. |
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Dr David Cordingly |
| Dr David Cordingly was Keeper of Pictures at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. He read history at Oxford, has a doctorate from Sussex University, and has written a number of best-selling books on maritime subjects. His latest book is Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean. He was a teacher in Jamaica and was consultant for the museum of piracy at Nassau in the Bahamas. He has appeared on camera in several documentary programmes for the BBC and the History Channel, and he was historical adviser for the first of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. |
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Dr Ian Stone |
| Dr Ian R. Stone has degrees in history, mathematics and geology. He served in the Army after graduation and became particularly interested in the Crimean War, a much misunderstood conflict, which far from being confined to the Crimean peninsula, was a world wide struggle. He was on the staff of the University of Kent at Canterbury for almost 20 years where he published extensively on, and lectured about, several aspects of the war. He acquired a good knowledge of, and admiration for, the Byzantines and has lectured about aspects of their history on very many trips to the Black Sea. |
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Dr Katherine Lack |
| Dr Katherine Lack originally trained as an agricultural scientist at Oxford, where she took her doctorate in 1985. More recently she has studied medieval history and historical research techniques, and this diverse background has led her to explore the links between superficially different subjects. She has written on science, history and theology, and is the author of three recent books tracing historical journeys and their cultural background, which give an insight into life in the dark ages and medieval times. |
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Dr Michael Scott |
| Michael Scott is the Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College,Cambridge. He has worked extensively in Greece, Turkey and around the Mediterranean, and specialises in ancient Greek politics and religion. He is the author of a recent popular history of the ancient world From Democrats to Kings and also a monograph for Cambridge University Press on the ancient sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. He has presented several TV documentaries for the History Channel, filming in Greece, Turkey and Egypt. He ran the route of the ancient Marathon in Athens in 2007 and has acted as guest lecturer and site guide for adult, university and school tours. His website address is www.michaelcscott.com |
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Dr Nicholas Cranfield |
| Dr Nicholas Cranfield FSA was educated in Italy, England and the USA and worked as an international banker before becoming an academic, who has worked largely on 16th and 17th century European history and culture. His current project is a joint edition of the correspondence of Archbishop William Laud who died in 1645. He is an avid opera goer and writes regularly on art criticism. He lives in Oxford and in London. |
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Dr Richard Butterwick |
| Dr Richard Butterwick graduated in History from Cambridge, before obtaining his doctorate at Oxford. He taught European history at Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast before moving to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where he is now Senior Lecturer. His academic interests range across the history and culture of Europe, but especially in the eighteenth century, and especially in Poland and Lithuania. A great lover of the baroque and classical styles in the arts, he particularly delights in Mozart’s operas. |
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Dr Richard Parkinson |
| Richard Parkinson was trained at Oxford, and after holding a teaching positions and a junior research fellowship, he joined the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, where he has worked ever since. His personal research interests centre around the interpretation of Ancient Egyptian literature and the history of sexuality, and he is regarded as the leading international authority on Middle Kingdom poetry. He teaches regularly in England and Germany, and lectures internationally. |
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Dr Sophie Mills |
| Sophia Mills is currently Chair and Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville where she has taught since 1994. She was born in London educated at Somerville College, Oxford and holds a DPhil in Greek Literature from Oxford University. She is the author of three books and numerous articles, and her intellectual interests include Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek History, ancient imperialism and the reception of the ancient world in the 21st century. She has 5 cats and is a fan of early music and brews her own beer. |
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Dr Toby Musgrave |
| Dr Toby Musgrave is one of the UK's leading authorities in garden history and design. With a degree in horticulture and a Ph.D. in garden history, since 1994 Toby has embarked on a freelance career as a television and radio presenter and consultant, author, journalist and photographer, designer and lecturer. Since 2004 he has shared his time between the UK and Denmark. In Denmark, Toby wrote a weekly gardening page for the leading Danish broadsheet in 2004 and ‘05, and contributes regularly to the magazines Bo Bedre, Garden Living and Haven. |
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Ewen Southby-Tailyour |
| In 1977 Ewen Southby-Tailyour was ordered to form a new detachment of Royal Marines for a year’s service in the Falkland Islands. The Royal Marines' duties in the Islands then, were to be a ‘trip-wire’ which, if activated, would give the excuse for a reinvasion; in spite of the government having no such contingency plans for this was merely a palliative to a sceptical population. ‘If’ - not ‘when’ in the Islanders’ collective view - Argentina invaded the commandos’ orders, then, they were to take immediately to the hills and ‘play guerrilla warfare’. However, Ewen, at the invitation of the MOD and with luke-warm support from the FCO - who secretly wanted rid of them - was invited to re-write the defence of Stanley. In doing so he and his marines were, wholly unrealistically, required ‘to buy three weeks of bargaining time in the UN’. |
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Frances Boardman |
| Frances studied ancient civilisations at Durham University, where she obtained an Honours degree in Egyptology with Coptic Studies. Prior to graduation, she took part in excavations in Northumberland and Durham and travelled extensively in the Middle East enabling hands on exploration and research. She has lived and worked in the Middle East as well as working in the British and Gulbenkian Museums cataloguing ancient artefacts. |
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General Sir Michael Rose |
| Born in 1940 in Quetta, former British India. Educated at Cheltenham College, the Sorbonne and St Edmund Hall Oxford (Politics Philosophy and Economics). He is an honorary fellow of his College and a Senior Associate Research Fellow at King's College, London (International Policy Institute). In 1999 he was awarded an Hon D Litt by Nottingham University. |
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George Hart |
| Following degrees in Classics and in Egyptian Art and Archaeology from University College London, he joined the staff of the British Museum in 1973. He was the Principal Lecturer on the British Museum’s antiquities collections from Egypt, Greece, the Levant and civilisations of the Mediterranean World and ran courses on Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. |
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Godfrey Barker |
| Godfrey Barker wrote for 20 years on the art market for The Daily Telegraph (Arts Editor, Arts Columnist) and is currently art market specialist for the BBC, The London Evening Standard and The Field. His articles appear also in The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Die Welt. He lectures for Sotheby’s and Christie’s and has completed a book, The Rich and the Price of Art, for which he is scripting a TV series. His life mixes the arts with politics; he has advised seven Conservative Arts Ministers and, as a journalist, was Parliamentary Sketchwriter and Leader Writer for The Daily Telegraph under Lord Deedes and Sir Max Hastings in the Thatcher and Major years. He also advises the Government of Bahrain on the arts. |
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Henry Davis |
| Henry Davis lectured in International & European Studies at the Birkbeck College (University of London) and is Convener of International & European Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London). His main academic area of interest is European history and politics. Apart from his writings on British foreign policy, he has had published several articles and from time to time has broadcast on the countries of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, re travel and academically-related topics. He was the Editor of 'Albanian Life' for four years. |
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Hilary Bradt |
| Hilary Bradt founded Bradt Travel Guides, the award-winning publishing company in 1974. Two years later she travelled the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, and made her first visit to Madagascar. She returned to East Africa and Madagascar as a tour leader in the 1980s, and has continued to visit Madagascar regularly both as a tour leader and lecturer for Noble Caledonia. She is the author of the Bradt guide to Madagascar (now in its 10th edition) and co-author of Madagascar Wildlife as well as countless articles on the island, its people and wildlife.In 2008 she was awarded an MBE for services to the travel industry and to charity, and in 2009 received the lifetime achievement award from the British Guild of Travel Writers. |
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Hugh Wybrew |
| Hugh Wybrew was born in Ilford. During the National Service in the royal Air Force I, he spent most of the two years learning Russian. At Oxford Hugh read the theology at The Queens College, and spent a year at the Russian Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris before training for the priesthood in the Church of England at Lincoln Theological College. He was ordained in the Diocese of Southwark in 1960, and spent four years as an assistant curate in East Dulwich. He then returned to Oxford to teach at St Stephen’s house, an Anglican Theological College. From 1973 to 1983 he was the Vicar of St John the Baptist. Hugh then spent two and a half years as Secretary of the fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius. He then went to Jerusalem to serve as Dean of St George’s Anglican Cathedral. |
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Humphrey Burton |
| Humphrey Burton read music and history at Cambridge, where he conducted the University Music Club choir. He joined the BBC in 1955 as a studio manager specialising in music programmes, transferring to television three years later. After five years on the arts magazine Monitor he spearheaded the expansion of cultural programmes, which followed the opening of BBC-2 in 1964 and was appointed the first Head of the Music and Arts department. Among the titles he and his producers pioneered were In Rehearsal, Master Class, Conversations with Glenn Gould and Workshop. In 1965 he received the British Academy’s top award for innovative programming. |
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Imogen Corrigan |
| Imogen Corrigan served for twenty years in the British Army retiring in the rank of Major. In 2004 she graduated from the University of Kent with a 1st in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History and is currently studying for PhD at Birmingham University. She runs study tours and has lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Medieval subjects in Britain and Europe and is a NADFAS lecturer as well as being a speaker for the Kent Federation of History and East Kent National Trust. amongst other lecturing agencies. Her first book, The Race for the Sky: the Building of the English Cathedrals, is to be published by Atlantic Books in 2011. |
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Janette Merilion |
| Janette Merilion is a well known horticultural lecturer and historian with a successful garden design business based in central Lincolnshire. After a career in marketing on the south coast of England, she returned to her roots, attending De Montfort University to study horticulture and garden design. Janette has had a love affair with plants all of her life. She is a talented, innovative designer, who not only provides inspiration and practical advice, but is now making a considerable name for herself as a professional speaker. Janette's garden and horticultural experience includes: Radio broadcasts for the BBC, a series of garden makeovers for Yorkshire Television and lecturing on garden design and garden history for various education authorities. |
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Jill Billington |
| Jill Billington qualified at Reading University with a BA Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture). Subsequently she changed direction and became a garden designer thirty years ago and is now a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers. Her practice has included small and large domestic gardens in UK and abroad and she has won awards at the Chelsea Flower Show, for the Sunday Times and Scottish National Trust, for Floreales D'Angers in France and for a Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Metis in Quebec. |
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Joanna Weld Forester |
| Joanna worked for many years in the European Ceramic Department at Sotheby’s in London where she became head of British Ceramics. It was there that she met her husband, Anthony. She has raised four children in Scotland and has lectured extensively throughout Scotland and in England for NADFAS, the Art Fund and several organisations and has been joined by Anthony for Ceramic Study Days in many Country Houses. She started and became Chairman of a Young NADFAS Group (Young Arts)*. Recently Joanna has much enjoyed lecturing on cruises in the Mediterranean and runs a successful B&B in the beautiful area of Scotland in which they live |
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John Love |
| Born in Inverness, John Love graduated in zoology at Aberdeen University. In 1975 he went to live on the Isle of Rum where he managed a highly successful project to reintroduce the white-tailed sea eagle. While he remains involved with birds of prey, seabirds are another passion. For over forty years he has been cruising the Hebrides and visiting remote islands but in that time he has also travelled extensively throughout the world, from Arctic Norway to the Antarctic, and from India and Africa to the Galapagos. |
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Jonathan Fryer |
| Jonathan will be a familiar voice to listeners to BBC Radio 4's 'From Our Own Correspondent', for which he has reported from around the globe. He first visited the Middle East before going to Oxford University to read Oriental Studies and over the 40 years since then has worked or travelled extensively in all the Arab countries, Turkey and most of the rest of the Islamic world. Jonathan is the author of a number of books, including a history of Kuwait and a profile of Iraqi Kurdstan. He teaches part-time at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). |
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Kate Adie |
| Kate Adie, who became a household name through her work as Chief Correspondent BBC News, currently presents the long-running radio programme, From Our Own Correspondent and is the author of four bestselling books, The Kindness of Strangers, From Corsets to Camouflage, Nobody’s Child and Into Danger: Risking your Life For Work. |
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Kate Garnons Williams |
| Kate Garnons Williams studied Ancient Greek and Roman History at Bristol University, and her Master's thesis was on early attempts to translate into English metre the comic plays of the Greek dramatist, Aristophanes. She lived and worked in Cyprus for 4 years in the 1970s, guiding parties to sites of archaeological interest across the island. On returning to the UK, Kate began teaching for the Open University, and more recently has taught for the University of Birmingham, and she has published several articles on a variety of classical subjects. For the last 25 years she has also lectured on ancient history on a number of cruise itineraries. |
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Louis Justin |
| Originally from Normandy, Louis has a lifelong interest in the history of the Viking world and the Norse expansion across Europe and the Atlantic Ocean. Sharing his time between Europe and the South Pacific, Louis specialises in the history of the exploration of Earth, an area in which both Vikings and Polynesians took active part. |
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M Tracey |
| Known as ‘Tracey’ - Originally an actress. Later became a Tour Manager - taking tours all over the world for forty years. Many years leading land tours in Egypt and as Cruise Director on The Long Nile Cruises. Took over from the English speaking guide at Abu Simbel for a month. Widely travelled in Africa taking safaris and running a lodge in Botswana while the manager went on leave. Now a London Blue Badge Guide and still travelling. For some years was a Foyle’s lecturer on Travel. |
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Major General Peter Williams |
| After studying History at Cambridge University Peter Williams spent more than 30 years in the British Army (Coldstream Guards) and enjoyed an unusually varied career. As an Infantryman he carried out ceremonial duties in London, spent two years in the mountains of Oman, served twice in Northern Ireland and commanded an armoured infantry battalion based in Münster, Germany. In the early 1990s he wrote speeches for the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, an American general. |
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Major General Stephen Carr-Smith |
| Major General Stephen Carr-Smith served throughout much of the Cold War in Europe (10 years) and then with NATO (6 years) before, during and after it was adjusting to its new role with the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR. On leaving the Army, he worked for a company providing security and mine clearance services in remote and hostile countries; was the Senior Military Advisor to an operational analysis company owned by British Aerospace; and was the Chairman of a company developing opportunities to marry up Russian technology with western finance and production. |
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Major JGH Corrigan MBE |
| Commissioned from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962, Gordon Corrigan was an officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before retiring from the Army in 1998. He served mainly in the Far East (Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and Hong Kong), but also in Berlin, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland. His last appointment was Commanding Officer of the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire. He is now a military historian. |
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Mark Corby |
| Mark Corby is a lecturer, tour leader & broadcaster of many years experience. His particular area of interest is the Classical World of Greece & Rome, with a special passion for military matters. He has lectured at the Institute of Archaeology, is a NADFAS lecturer & has been a Guest Speaker on numerous cruises in the Mediterranean, Baltic & Black Seas. He has led & still leads numerous overland tours to the Middle East & Spain. He has presented TV documentaries for the BBC, CHANNEL 4 & various other channels, on subjects such as “The Real Spartacus”, Vespasian- the man who saved Rome, & The defeat of the Spanish Armada. |
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Michael Hindley |
| Born in Blackburn, UK (1947) and educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and London University (BA Hons) and Lancaster University (MA) and the University of West Berlin. Michael Hindley was an elected council leader in North West England, a Lancashire County Councillor and a Member of the European Parliament for three terms (1984-99). He was the Majority Leader on the Trade Committee (1989-99). From 1991-1995 he was responsible for relations with the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe. |
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Michael Michieli |
| Michael Michieli is a Gardens Consultant for the Royal Horticultural Society garden holidays. His particular area of expertise is Mediterranean plants and, as the previous head of the Mediterranean Garden Society’s Uk branch, he brings a wealth of experience to the holidays he leads. He has served on The Plant Conservation committee for the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens and as the national collection holder of verbena has exhibited at horticultural shows such as Hampton Court, Malvern RHS Show and Chateaux du Courson near Paris. |
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Michael Nicholson OBE |
| Author and Journalist Michael Nicholson is one of the world’s most travelled and decorated foreign correspondents. He has been reporting for ITN for over forty years and in that time has covered more wars and conflicts that any other British newsman. Michael has won numerous British and International awards. He was given the most prestigious “Richard Dimbleby Award” in 1982 and named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by the Royal Television Society on three separate occasions, something no other British television journalist has achieved. He holds the Falklands and Gulf Campaign medals and in 1991 was awarded an OBE. |
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Nicholas Merchant |
| Nicholas Merchant’s career has mirrored his abiding interest in Antiques. He has worked for some of the major Auction Houses in London and in the provinces, where his wide knowledge of his subject was sought after as a Valuer and in advising clients on the sale of their goods. His particular interest is English 18th century furniture and Country Houses. However, his interest is broad and he likes to discuss objects, not just for themselves but in their historical context. |
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Nicholas Reed |
| Nicholas Reed is both an archaeologist and an art historian. He took his first degree in Greats at Oxford, and then acquired research degrees on ancient history from Manchester and St Andrews Universities. He has taken part in some thirty excavations, and has fifteen articles published in learned journals on subjects in ancient history, especially Roman history. |
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Olga Eggert |
| Olga Eggert was born in Crimea, Ukraine. She graduated from the Odessa Conservatoire with distinction in piano, piano accompaniment and the teaching of music. After leaving the Conservatoire she embarked on a career as a professional pianist and accompanist and performed in Moscow, Minsk, Kiev and other cities of the former Soviet Union. She has made many appearances on Ukrainian, Russian and Belorussian TV. |
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Patrick Mercer |
| Born in 1956, Patrick is the son of an Anglican Bishop. Patrick has moved back to his home town of Newark where he now lives with wife Caitriona and son Rupert. Educated at the King's School, Chester, Oxford University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he has a degree in history. Indeed, history is his first love and when time permits he immerses himself in it. He has written several history books and has just expanded into fiction, his first trilogy having just been published. After Oxford he joined Nottinghamshire's Regiment, the Sherwood Foresters in which his father had served during the war. |
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Paul Harris |
| Paul Harris graduated from Aberdeen University with an MA in Politics and International Relations and currently works as a writer, lecturer and as a consultant on political risk issues. During the 1980s he was an export consultant in former Yugoslavia and in 1991 became a journalist there after his plane was destroyed on the runway at Slovenia’s Ljubljana airport. |
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Peter Warwick |
| Peter is chairman of The 1805 Club, a UK charity whose object is the conservation of the monuments and memorials of the Georgian sailing navy; chairman of the International Committee for Waterloo 200, the official body devising and co-ordinating the commemorations for the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 2015; and chairman of Thames Alive, a new campaign to promote London’s river, which includes organising major river pageants, including for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. |
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Philip Blake-Jones |
| Philip Blake-Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music and made his professional debut as a baritone with Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has also appeared with Glyndebourne Touring Opera and the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He appeared on tour with The D’Oyly Carte singing Giuseppe in The Gondoliers and Strephon in Iolanthe, a role he also recorded with the company with critical acclaim. He appears on ‘The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan’ on Sony Classical. Concert appearances include the baritone solo in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah in Florence and at the Pisa Opera House and a soloist in operatic concerts with the City of London Sinfonia in the UK and Germany. |
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Prof Martyn Rady |
| Martyn Rady is Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a part of University College London. He has written books on German, Hungarian and Romanian history, and has edited and translated some of the leading texts for the history of Hungary – most recently the earliest Hungarian chronicle, written in Latin about the year 1200, and an eye-witness account of the Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241. He has broadcast extensively on television and radio, discussing subjects ranging from contemporary politics in Central Europe to vampirism and the history of the Habsburg Monarchy. |
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Professor Jeremy Black |
| Jeremy Black is a prolific historian with specialties in world military history, the history of tourism, and both the eighteenth and twentieth Century. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, he is Professor at Exeter having previously been Professor at Durham. He received his MBE for services to stamp design. |
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Professor John Ray |
| John Ray is Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Selwyn College. He specialises in the later stages of the Egyptian language, including Coptic. He previously held posts in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, and in the University of Birmingham and has been a visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and at Yale. He has also lectured widely in Europe and North America. |
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Professor Ludmilla Selezneva |
| Professor Ludmilla is a graduate with honours from Rostov State University and received her first doctorate there in history in 1982. She attained her second doctorate in 1996 from the Russian State University of Humanities in Moscow. Since 2001, Ludmilla Selezneva has worked as a professor of history and politics at the University of the Humanitarian Education in Moscow. Professor Selezneva has published more than 50 articles and authored or co-authored 10 books. |
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Professor Stefan Buczacki |
| Stefan is probably Britain's most experienced media gardening personality with a huge following of devoted fans who appreciate his knowledge, authority and easy, relaxed style of communicating. He was educated at the Universities of Southampton (First Class Honours in Botany) and Oxford (Doctorate in Forestry) and as well as being a media celebrity, he is also a scientist with an international reputation and has received accolades, honorary degrees and awards for his research, writing, broadcasting and photography. |
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Rodney Greenberg |
| Rodney Greenberg graduated with honours at the Music Faculty of Manchester University, specialising in Piano and Composition. His music has been performed at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room. He began his broadcasting career in BBC radio, working as a Music Producer and writing radio portraits of Broadway composers. In 1970 he joined the Music and Arts Department of BBC Television. Since 1980, he has been a freelance Producer/Director combining work for the BBC, Channel Four and Sky Arts with projects for other major companies in Europe and America. His biography of Gershwin is published by Phaidon. |
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Rodney Trudgeon |
| As a name long associated with classical music broadcasting in South Africa, his radio career has spanned some 25 years and he has sought to make classical music more accessible and more entertaining to the diverse cultures that make up South Africa’s listening audience. After many years as current affairs, magazine and music presenter on the national broadcaster DABC, Rodney joined Classic FM in Johannesburg where he was a regular presenter of the Breakfast of the Breakfast Show and Afternoon drive. He has interviewed numerous local and international musicians, politicians, authors and actors and is much in demand as a lecturer on various aspects of the vast world of classical music. His accessible, easy going style and impressive knowledge have endured him to the local audiences and also the people with whom he has undertaken cruises. |
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Roger Mills |
| Roger Mills is best known as the Director and Series Producer of the Michael Palin Travel Documentaries. Of the Seven series, from "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1989) to "Michael Palin's New Europe"(2006) he has directed six. Roger Mills has been making documentaries for forty five years and to date has won four BAFTAs, one for "Sailor", about life on HMS Ark Royal, two in the Best Series Category for "Forty Minutes" and BAFTA's special award for "Services to Television. |
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Roger Preece |
| Roger’s interest in wine dates from when, whilst working for Stowells of Chelsea, he helped in broadening the company’s portfolio. This led to extensive travel throughout wine-growing Europe and an ever-increasing love affair with wines. This continued, despite a career path which led him into soft drinks. Finally he took the plunge and opened a wine bar in South Kensington. The venture went well and was built into a group of 17 bars, turning over £4.5m pa in wines and champagnes. |
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Sir Michael Burton |
| Michael Burton had a 37 year long career in the Diplomatic Service, retiring as Ambassador in Prague in 1997. In the Middle East he started by learning Arabic at the Foreign Office’s language school on Lebanon before a first posting as Assistant Political Agent in Dubai in what was then the Trucial States. Later postings followed in Amman and Kuwait culminating in a two year period as Director for Middle East and North Africa in the FCO in the middle nineties.He was also involved in organising four of The Queen’s overseas state visits, to Paris, Kuwait, Berlin and Prague. Since retirement he has been a member of Council of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs, and Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group, the British Czech and Slovak Association and the Hurlingham Club in London. |
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Stephen Dando-Collins |
| The former COO of an American market research company, Stephen is the award-winning author of 25 books about British, American, French, Australian, and Roman history. It is for his nine books about the ancient Romans that he is best known around the world. His decades of research into the legions of Rome have made him an authority on the subject. His latest book, Legions of Rome (Quercus), was a New Statesman book of the week. |
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Stephen Phillips |
| Stephen is a writer and broadcaster who frequently lectures on historical and archaeological subjects. He studied ancient history and classical archaeology at London and Cambridge and has taught those subjects at universities and made television programmes on a wide range of cultural subjects. Stephen has written for most of Britain’s national papers as well as specialist arts magazines, the New Statesman etc. |
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Ticu Gamalie |
| Born in the Constanta, Romania, Ticu began his career in the travel industry at young age guiding short tours in the Black Sea in his summer holidays. This led to longer tours such as “The Painted Wonders of Bucovina”, “Bucharest – the Little Paris”, “Dracula – between myth and history” for various cruise ships and being invited to give lectures on board. |
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Tom Holland |
| Tom Holland is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006. His third work of history, Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, was published in the autumn of 2008, and his fourth, on the origins of Islam, will be published in the spring of 2012. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. He is currently working on a translation of Herodotus for Penguin Classics. |
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Zsuzsanna Ardó |
| Zsuzsanna Ardó is Hungarian by birth, English by existence, human by inclination, humorous by nature - and a writer and photographer by profession. Her books and articles have been published in various languages, in the UK, US, Hungary, Germany, Russia and Singapore. She has worked as an academic, journalist, editor, and broadcaster; she has translated and edited over 100 feature films, from James Bond to Shakespeare, Her broadcasting experience includes European-wide satellite television series on intercultural communication and management. |
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