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Tom Abbott
Graduated in Psychology and Art History from Carleton College, Minnesota and studied at the Louvre School of Art History in Paris—moved to Berlin in 1987—a specialist in architectural history from the Baroque to the 20th century with a wide knowledge of the performing arts—in recent years has organised and led many highly-acclaimed academic tours in Germany.
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Art in Munich
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Organs of Bach’s Time
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Oberammergau
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Saeed Alizadeh
A native of Tehran—professional translator and interpreter who studied in London and has taught English for ten years—a lecturer on the history, art, architecture, religion and cultural traditions of Iran for many years—co-author of Iran: A Chronological History—qualified national guide who has worked with MRT since 2001.
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Persia
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Persia (1)
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Dr Paul Atterbury
Trained as a graphic designer and then as an art historian—independent writer, lecturer and broadcaster, specialising in the art, architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries—has worked as an external curator for the V&A Museum on a number of exhibitions, including Pugin and the Victorian Vision—books include works on pottery and porcelain, antiques, railways and canals—member of the team of experts for BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
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The Victorian Achievement
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Emma Rose Barber
An art history tutor and museum educator who has lectured for SOAS, The Open University and as head of History of Art for the British Institute of Florence—received her MA in Renassiance Studies from Birkbeck College and is currently researching for a PhD on the Mediaeval Wayfarer—works for the continuing education department at Oxford University and the University of Kent.
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Dr Rosamund Bartlett
Writer, lecturer and translator specializing in Russian cultural history, literature and music—books include Wagner and Russia, Shostakovich in Context, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life and Literary Russia: A Guide—has taught at universities in the UK and the United States and led tours throughout Eastern Europe—currently completing a new translation of Anna Karenina, editing the Cambridge Companion to Russian Music, and writing a cultural history of opera in Russia.
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Professor Mary Beard
The best-known classicist in Britain today, Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge where she has taught for the last 25 years. She has written numerous books on the Ancient World, including the 2008 Wolfson Prize-winner, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (Profile 2008), The Roman Triumph (Harvard 2007), Classical Art from Greece to Rome (Oxford University Press 2001) and books on the Parthenon and the Colosseum. Her interests range from the social and cultural life of Ancient Greece and Rome to the Victorian understanding of antiquity. Mary is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.
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Writers at the Castle
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Dr Paul Bennett
Archaeologist and Director of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust— honorary lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Kent—Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a founder member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists—has carried out fieldwork in the Libyan valleys and in Cyrenaica annually since 1996—joint director of the Euesperides (Benghazi) project—presently Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies.
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Libya
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Dr Amira Bennison
Currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge—gained her doctorate in Moroccan history from the School of Oriental and African Studies—publications include Jihad and its Interpretations in Precolonial Morocco, and numerous articles on the culture, society and politics of Islamic Spain and Morocco—has travelled extensively in north Africa and the Middle East as a lecturer and researcher.
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Morocco (1)
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Gail Bent
Lecturer on British architectural history and historic interiors—interior designer and artist—studied at the universities of Toronto and Leeds and Edinburgh College of Art—has taught at the University of Leeds and for the Continuing Education Departments at Christ Church Oxford, York and Nottingham—lectures for The Art Fund, The National Trust, amongst others.
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Great Houses of England, I
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Professor Tim Blanning
Until his retirement in 2009, Tim Blanning was Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge where he gained a reputation for the vitality and incisiveness of his lectures. He remains a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy. Recent publications are the award-winning The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture 1660-1789 (Oxford University Press 2002), The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (Penguin 2006), The Triumph of Music (Penguin 2008) and The Romantic Revolution (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010).
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Julia Boadle
Art historian and freelance writer—read languages (French, Spanish, Italian) at Kings College, London and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she received her MA and is currently undertaking doctoral research on Byzantine and pre-Renaissance bilateral painted panels—specialist in Byzantium, the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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Dr Flavio Boggi
Art historian specialising in Italian Renaissance and Baroque-—received his PhD from Glasgow University after studying art history at Rome, Florence and Pisa and now lectures at University College, Cork, where he set up the art history programme—has contributed on Italian art and architecture to journals, dictionaries of art and exhibition catalogues.
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Lucca
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Monica Bohm-Duchen
Independent lecturer, writer and curator specialising in twentieth-century art. Studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before graduating in English Literature and History of Art from University College London and with an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute. She has lectured for the National Gallery, Tate, Royal Academy, Courtauld Institute, Sotheby’s and Birkbeck College. Her many publications include Chagall (Phaidon 1998/2001) and The Private Life of a Masterpiece (BBC Worldwide 2001).
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Art on the Côte D'Azur
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Dr Xavier Bray
Art historian specialising in Spanish art and sculpture—currently Assistant Curator of 17th and 18th-century European Paintings at the National Gallery, London, where he has co-curated numerous exhibitions: El Greco, Caravaggio: the final years, Velázquez and in 2009: The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700—studied at UCL and completed his PhD at Trinity College, Dublin—former posts have included Curator of Paintings at the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao.
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Art in Madrid
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James Brown
Historian specialising in Morocco and with a wider interest in the history of the Muslim world and global history—studied at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London—has worked as a journalist and teacher, currently planning post-doctoral research on the relations between Morocco and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Morocco
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Professor Trevor Bryce
Classicist and ancient Near Eastern historian who has published extensively on the Classical and Near Eastern worlds—his most recent publications are The Kingdom of the Hittites (new edition) and The Trojans and their Neighbours, which includes a discussion on the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations—Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has held visiting Fellowships at Princeton, Oxford and Canberra—his university career has included appointments as Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Australia and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Lincoln University, NZ.
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Classical Turkey
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Classical Greece
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Sandy Burnett
Broadcaster, conductor and performer—presents regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has worked as musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre—has conducted several choirs and is currently masterminding a complete cycle of Bach’s surviving sacred cantatas in west London—obtained his MA in Music from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
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Ross Burns
Middle East specialist and author of Monuments of Syria and Damascus, A History. He was formerly in the Australian Foreign Service and has held a number of Middle East postings including Ambassador to Syria (1984–7) and to Greece (1998–2001). He is currently completing a doctorate on the architecture of the cities of the Roman East at Macquarie University, Sydney.
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Sir Michael Burton
Graduate of PPE, Oxford, and an Arabic, German and French speaker—retired from the Diplomatic Service where his posts included inter alia HM Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1994–97), Assistant Under-Secretary of State, FCO, for the Middle and Near East (1993–94), Kuwait (1997–99), Jordan (1995–97) and Assistant Political Agent in Dubai (1962–64)—he served as the last British Minister in Berlin during the fall of the Wall and represented the UK in Berlin and the former GDR for two years thereafter.
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Polly Buston
Followed an MA in French with English at Edinburgh University with an MA at the Courtauld Institute—freelance lecturer at the Courtauld Summer School—works for art history publishers as editor and picture researcher, and was co-author of Titian’s Venice, a multi-media project accompanying the 2003 National Gallery Titian exhibition.
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