The Great War Debate - Speakers

Patrick Mercer

Patrick Mercer was educated at Sandhurst and Oxford before joining his family regiment, The Sherwood Foresters, with whom he served mainly in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. After the Army he was the defence reporter for BBC Radio 4's Today Programme before being elected as an MP.

A lifetime's interest in military history has led him to travel all over the world. With a number of factual books on the Crimean Campaign to his name, Patrick has also published 8 novels.

N​igel Jones​

Nigel Jones combines the careers of historian, journalist, broadcaster, and biographer. Born near London, he studied and worked in Germany before beginning his journalism on local newspapers in Hertfordshire and the Cambridge Evening News. He subsequently worked as an editor for the Press Association national news agency, BBC and Independent Radio, satellite TV​,​ and spent four years in the 1990s in Vienna, working for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF.

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Neil Faulkner

Neil Faulkner ​is a freelance archaeologist and historian. He works as a writer, lecturer, excavator, and occasional broadcaster. Educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, he is now a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, the Editor of Military History Matters, and a Lecturer for NADFAS.

He is a leading ​WWI archaeologist and the founder-director of the long-running Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project in Norfolk.​

Jan Woolf

Jan Woolf is a writer and artist based​ in the UK. She is the author of Fugues on a Funny Bone, and is currently the cultural coordinator of the No Glory campaign​, a group that seeks to counter the celebratory narrative of the British government’s commemorations of the First World War.