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Links with interested parties established thus far
Some key academic and professional historians, eg Professor Jeremy Black, Professor Bruce Collins, Professor Charles Esdaile, Professor Alan Forrest, Professor Richard Holmes, Dr Kevin Linch, Professor Christopher Woolgar, Dr Kevin Linch and Dr Michael Rowe.
Members of Parliament – Mr David Tredinnick and Patrick Mercer.
DCMS – Annabel Houghton – Historic Environmental Policy Adviser, Culture Team.
DCFS – Professional Education Manager of the History Association (links to CfBT) – Mr Alfred Wilkinson.
Education contacts – Dr Sean Lang – Senior Lecturer in history at Anglia Ruskin University; Mr Neil MacKintosh – Centre for British Teachers; Mr Mark Orrow-Whiting – Curriculum and Assessments Policy; Dr Michael Riley – Schools History Project; Dr Anthony Seldon – Master of Wellington College; Mrs Dianne Smith – Regional Adviser, South West District; Dr Kate Tiller – British Association for Local History.
The Media – Mr Martin Davidson – BBC and Mrs Charlotte Alibone – History Channel.
MOD – Dr Duncan Anderson – Head of War Studies, Sandhurst; Colonel Ben Bathurst – Assistant Director, Public Relations (Army); Brigadier Alistair MacMillan – Sandhurst Foundation.
Historical Authors and Tour Guides – Dr Peter Caddick Adams, Mr Paul Chamberlain, Major Graeme Cooper, Major Gordon Corrigan, Mr Gareth Glover, Mr Patrick Mercer, Mr Peter Snow, Lady Jane Wellesley.
British Heritage Groups/Archives – Association of the Friends of Waterloo Committee, including Mr and Mrs David Bromley – Register of Memorials; Culture 24; English Heritage; Mr Paul Lay – History Today; Museums, Libraries and Archives group; National Archives; National Trust; Mr Simon Fowler – Ancestors Magazine; Professor Miles Taylor – Institute of Historical Research.
Publishers – Mr Rupert Harding – Pen and Sword; Mr Richard Sullivan – Osprey Publishing; Mr Tim Newark – Military Illustrated and Ken Trotman Publishers
Medical Representatives – Mr Michael Crumplin and Dr Martin Howard
Genealogy experts – particularly findmypast.com/Brightsolid
International Napoleonic Society – President, Mr David Markham.
Living History groups – Coldstream Guards, 33rd Regiment, 68th Regiment, 95th Rifles, the Shorncliffe Redoubt Society, Napoleonic Association.
Relevant museums/archives – Apsley House, Army Medical Services Museum, Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Dulwich Art Gallery, Firepower Museum – also several regimental/ museums eg, the Greenjackets and Rifles and Fulwood Barracks, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Royal Armouries, Wellington Museum in Waterloo.
Four pilot schools and their relevant history teachers at, London, Winchester, Preston and Grantham
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