GNE-Events

Dr Florian Schweizer is Director of the Charles Dickens Museum and leads the global Dickens 2012 campaign.
He studied in Germany and Britain and holds a PhD in English Literature from the Uniervsity of London. He has worked at the Charles Dickens Museum since 2002 and is now managing a major redevelopment project which will establish the Museum as the most accessible literary museum in England. He has published and lectured widely on Dickens, the Victorians and British culture.

Ian White is a retired research scientist, who worked on computer and communications systems, but developed an interest in horology over twenty years ago. This includes its science, its history, and the social role of time.
He has earlier published a history of the Watch and Clockmakers in the City of Bath. Click clock-makers-at -batth for more information.
He has also advised Sotheby’s in 2010 on the history of a clock they recently sold (for $520,000).
He has worked in The Hague for four years, (1993–1997).
 

JOHN WYATT is a specialist in African birds and animals having worked for 12 years in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the British Overseas Civil Service. On returning to England in 1971, he began lecturing on wildlife and archaeological subjects and has now given over 3000 such talks, including around 150 on Bird Watching in the Netherlands. Through his own companies in The Waxwing Group, he co-authored and published the highly acclaimed British Teach Yourself Bird Sounds cassette series and led wildlife tours to many parts of the World but especially Africa and The Netherlands, 103 to the latter alone, from 1989-2004. For the last six years he has combined his University training as an Anthropologist/Ethnographer with his skills as an Ornithologist and is at present the World`s only full-time Ornitho-Egyptologist undertaking research in Egypt (17 visits) and elsewhere for a book on Birds in Ancient Egypt : A Guide to their Identification which is scheduled for publication in August 2012.

JOHN WYATT is a specialist in African birds and animals having worked for 12 years in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the British Overseas Civil Service. On returning to England in 1971, he began lecturing on wildlife and archaeological subjects and has now given over 3000 such talks, including around 150 on Bird Watching in the Netherlands. Through his own companies in The Waxwing Group, he co-authored and published the highly acclaimed British Teach Yourself Bird Sounds cassette series and led wildlife tours to many parts of the World but especially Africa and The Netherlands, 103 to the latter alone, from 1989-2004. For the last six years he has combined his University training as an Anthropologist/Ethnographer with his skills as an Ornithologist and is at present the World`s only full-time Ornitho-Egyptologist undertaking research in Egypt (17 visits) and elsewhere for a book on Birds in Ancient Egypt : A Guide to their Identification which is scheduled for publication in August 2012.

John Pilkington has been called “one of Britain’s greatest tellers of travellers’ tales”.
In 1983, after journeys in Africa and Latin America, he completed a 500-mile solo crossing of the western Nepal Himalaya, and told the story in his first book, Into Thin Air. His interest in Asia grew further with the opening in 1986 of the border between Pakistan and China, making it possible – for the first time in forty years – to retrace virtually the whole of the Silk Road. John was one of the first modern travellers to do so, and he wrote about the journey in An Adventure on the Old Silk Road. This was followed in 1991 by An Englishman in Patagonia; recounting eight months spent exploring the southernmost tip of South America.
In 2000 he became one of only four people in modern times to walk the 1,600-mile Royal Road of the Incas in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. In 2003 he explored the Mekong River and, with two Tibetans, reached and mapped its source at over 17,000 feet. In 2006 he turned his attention to the Sahara Desert, and joined a camel caravan carrying salt for 450 miles from the mines of Taoudenni to Timbuktu.

Mrs. Anne Marie Evans has been involved in the Exhibition `Vorstelijk Tuinieren` in Teylers Museum early 2010. The highpoint of that exhibition was the Highgrove Florilegium of Prince Charles.
Mrs. Evans is botanic designer and initiator of that Florilegium. Florilegia have a long history. Over the centuries many royal families had their flower- and plant collection immortalized in richly decorated books.