Contributors
Mark Simner is the Administrator of the Napoleonic Wars Forum and the Victorian Wars Forum. He has written a number of military history books, including: An Illustrated Introduction to the Battle of Waterloo; A Brief History of the Peninsular War, 1808-14; and Pathan Rising: Jihad on the North West Frontier of India, 1897-98. He is currently working on another title that will examine
Kitchener’s re-conquest of Sudan in 1896-98. His Twitter account is
Josh Provan is a writer and blogger from the UK who focuses on the stories and events of History from ancient times to WW1. He believes that History is made up of stories, each one only as hard to reconstruct as it would be to describe the day before yesterday, and each has its own significance. In 2012 he started a general history blog Adventures in Historyland and hopes one day to write a book. His twitter account is
Nick Britten is an amateur historian and blogger with a deep passion for the British Empire, in particular the late Victorian period. Founder of the UnderEveryLeaf Blog and page which tries to keep alive the stories of the men and woman for fought and died for the Empire. His Twitter account is
Amarpal Sidhu has an eclectic taste in history including the Roman, Byzantine,Ottoman empires and reaching up to the World Wars. He has written 'The First Anglo-Sikh War' and his second book ’The Second Anglo-Sikh war' is due out in May 2016. He is an administrator of the Sikh Military History Forum. His twitter account is
David King is 32 years old and has had a passionate interest in British military history for as long as he can remember. A particular area of interest has been Britain’s colonial history and the World Wars which he puts down to a combination of the influence of Zulu and Commando Comics. Manimugdha Sharma is a New Delhi-based news editor with The Times of India, a newspaper that prints his passion for military history. As a child, he took an old school joke about history being the mystery that cannot be solved by chemistry rather seriously. He can’t recall when he fell in love with history, and when that led to commitment, but he is absolutely sure that this relationship is going to last a lifetime. Manimugdha has written extensively on Indian military history, especially the role of Indian troops in the two world wars, and finds the Mughal and British empires the most fascinating things in history. He runs a Times of India blog called Parthian Shot and tweets from the handle
Andrea Zuvich (aka The Seventeenth Century Lady) is a seventeenth-century historian specialising in the House of Stuart (1603-1714), and is also a historical advisor and historical fiction authoress. She has degrees in History and one in Anthropology. Zuvich has been on television and radio discussing the Stuarts and gives lectures on them throughout the UK. She was one of the original developers of and leaders on The Garden History Tours at Kensington Palace. Her books include "A Year in the Life of Stuart Britain" and "The Stuarts in 100 Facts". Twitter:
Christian Parkinson is a writer, filmmaker and journalist originally from the UK but living in Johannesburg, South Africa. He grew up obsessed with the military, applied to join the Paras when he was 19, changed his mind, finished university and ended up as a journalist. It’s been a wild ride ever since. Christian has worked across the world and filmed in many war zones including: Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Somalia, DRC, Ivory Coast and Libya. In his spare time he writes and makes films about the history of the British army. His twitter account is
