Dan Cruickshank is a writer, historian, and broadcaster who has made numerous history and culture programmes or the BBC, including Around the World in 80 Treasures; Adventures in Architecture; Britain’s Best Buildings; The Country House Revealed, Britain’s and Royal Palaces and The Road to Palmyra. He is the author of numerous books, including A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea; People, Places and Treasure Under Fire: Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel; The Secret History of Georgian London; Spitalfields: A History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets; Cruickshank’s London: a portrait of a City in 13 Walks, and Soho: A Personal History and Guide to London’s Living Heart. He is also the editor of the 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architecture Panel of the National Trust. He is a founding Trustee of the Spitalfields Historic Buildings Trust, of SAVE Britain’s Heritage and of the campaign to rebuild the Euston Arch.