BATTLEFIELD ESSEX
Andrew Summers
- Regions:
- London, Essex, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £70 plus mileage and time as applicable
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 19th January 2026
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Although titled Battlefield Essex, it’s is not all blood and gore! We explore conflicts on Essex soil over a 2,000 year time frame. Some have been violent battles, but there have also been many that didn’t involve loss of life, yet nevertheless fought with passion. In many cases such battles have been hyped in contemporary media as ‘battles’ and the term has stuck. The ‘Essex’ area includes the part of the county now absorbed onto Greater London, in what is loosely termed ‘Metropolitan Essex’. Talk includes embedded short videos.
Views: 14 | Enquiries: 0About Andrew Summers
Andrew was born within the sound of Bow Bells on a quiet day. His father Kazik spent two years in a Soviet Labour camp as a ‘guest’ of Joe Stalin. His mother Diana worked for some time at Bletchley Park helping to crack codes, but that was all very secretive. After a spell in North Kent and then Leigh on Sea, for the past 30 years Andrew has lived in Hadleigh (Essex) and been married to Glenis. Andrew has bought and sold books in the UK and abroad and even printed books too. With a change of tack he now an author and publisher. Andrew has written They Did Their Duty, Essex Farm which tells the story of Essex Farm in Belgium and its connections with the Essex Regiment, edited The Numbers Had to Tally, a second world war survival story and written The Riddle of Boudica. He too has compiled ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHEND (and District). With his co-writer John Debenham they have created the Essex Hundred series of books, including Magna Carta in Essex and The Essex Hundred Histories which has been reprinted 15 times. More www.essex100.com, Tel 01702 557828
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