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Andrew Robertshaw

Andrew Robertshaw

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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]

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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

  • 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

  1. [1]
    Centre for First World War Studies
  2. [2]
    Discovery Channel: Finding the Fallen
  3. [3]
    "'World War One trench' recreated in Kent woodland". BBC News. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    Elijah Howarth; F. R. Rowley; W. Ruskin Butterfield; Charles Madeley (1994). The Museums Journal. Museums Association. p. 23.


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