Ballot Archive

16 Apr 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Charles Woodburn

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA. St John's College, Cambridge. Studied also at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

Profession or occupation

Retired Brigadier (Royal Engineers). Formerly Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the British Army.

Grounds for election

Expert on historical fortifications in Asia. His primary research on fortified palace sites in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan has led to re-assessments of royal forts and fortified palaces in Chitral and Kabul. Contributor to Phototheca Afghanica (photographic records project of Afghanistan Institute in Switzerland). Work has appeared in Asian Affairs; Current World Archaeology; Abenteur Archaologie; The Court Historian as well as a monograph on The Bala Hissar of Kabul (published 2009, Institution of Royal Engineers) with a Persian edition (Kabul 2011, supported by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture). Has lectured to Ancient India and Iran Trust; RAI; Royal Society for Asian Affairs; Society for Court Studies; Institution of Royal Engineers and Khalili Islamic Art Lectures (Oxford). Paper forthcoming in Chateau Gaillard vol. 27. Served on the Council of the RAI (1995 - 1999) and is also an active member of Castle Studies Group (organiser of its 2005 Annual Conference).

Signatories

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