Lucy Betteridge-Dyson is an historian and broadcaster who specialises in military and animal history. Lucy co-presented Channel 4’s 48 Hours to Victory series in which she unpicked the two days that secured victory in some of Britain’s most important battles. She co-presented the BBC Sounds podcast, Obsessed With…SAS Rogue Heroes and contributed to BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are?. Lucy has also appeared across numerous other podcasts, televisions shows and online platforms. An enthusiastic public speaker, Lucy is particularly passionate about engaging a wider audience with the history of the First and Second World Wars, having worked with the BBC, PBS, National Geographic, Channel 4, National Army Museum, Global Radio, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Royal British Legion....
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson is an historian and broadcaster who specialises in military and animal history.
Lucy co-presented Channel 4’s 48 Hours to Victory series in which she unpicked the two days that secured victory in some of Britain’s most important battles. She co-presented the BBC Sounds podcast, Obsessed With…SAS Rogue Heroes and contributed to BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are?. Lucy has also appeared across numerous other podcasts, televisions shows and online platforms.
An enthusiastic public speaker, Lucy is particularly passionate about engaging a wider audience with the history of the First and Second World Wars, having worked with the BBC, PBS, National Geographic, Channel 4, National Army Museum, Global Radio, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Royal British Legion.
Lucy is a horse lover, and her current research focuses on the use of horses and mules in 20th century conflict, a topic on which she is a highly experienced speaker. Her particular focus is the Third Arakan campaign in Burma during the Second World War, and her book on the subject Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945 publishes in October 2025. She has an MA (Dist) in History of Britain and the First World War from the University of Wolverhampton.
