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 and online platforms including We Have Ways of Making You Talk and WW2TV.
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, 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 and the Third Arakan campaign in Burma during the Second World War, on which she is a highly experienced speaker. Lucy makes regular contributions to the Great War Group’s journal, and is experienced at writing and speaking on military history for a variety of publications and audiences, from school talks to academic conferences and magazines.
Lucy graduated from QMUL in 2010 with a degree in Audio Systems Engineering, but her passion for history took her back to the subject for postgraduate study on the History of Britain and the First World War at the University of Wolverhampton.
In 2019 Lucy founded Herstory Club which aims to connect women with a passion for history on both a social and professional level. She also works as a guide with Battleguide Virtual Tours.
