Andrew Robertshaw
Andrew Robertshaw | |
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| Born | Doncaster, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Military history |
Andrew Robertshaw (born 1956) is a British military historian, curator, author and educator who specialises in the history of the First World War.[1] He is best known for his television appearances, in programmes such as Two Men in a Trench and Time Team.[2] He was a military history advisor on the films War Horse 1917 and They Shall Not Grow Old.[3][4]
Robertshaw was born in Doncaster, England. During his career he has worked as Curator/Manager of the Royal Logistic Corps Museum in Deepcut, and previously as Head of Education at The National Army Museum in London.[5]
He is now director of BattleFields Partnerships Limited. He is also the lead historian for The Centre For Experimental Military Archaeology (CEMA) at the Kent Show Ground.
Works
[edit]- A Soldier's Life (1997)
- Warfare in the 16th-19th Centuries: The Age of Empires (Battle Zone) (2003) (with Mark Bergin)
- Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and Triumph (Campaign) (2006)
- Feeding Tommy: Battlefield Recipes from the First World War
- Digging the Trenches: the Archaeology of the Western Front (with David Kenyon)
- Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle, June–July 1916 (2009) (With Alastair Fraser and Steve Roberts)
- The Hard Way: Surviving Shamshuipo POW Camp 1941-45 (2011)
- The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-18 (2012) (with Steve Roberts)
- Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War (2012)
- 24hr Trench: A Day in the Life of a Frontline Tommy (2012)
- 24hr Under Attack: Tommy Defends the Frontline (2014)
- 5 Minute History: First World War Trenches (2014)
- Somme 1916 (Battle Story) (2014)
- Film War Horse (2010)
- Film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
- Film 1917 (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ Centre for First World War Studies
- ^ Discovery Channel: Finding the Fallen
- ^ "'World War One trench' recreated in Kent woodland". BBC News. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Moss, Richard (6 July 2010). "War Horse heads to English Heritage Festival of History for dramatic World War I trench recreation". Culture 24. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ^ Elijah Howarth; F. R. Rowley; W. Ruskin Butterfield; Charles Madeley (1994). The Museums Journal. Museums Association. p. 23.
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