Rohan Bolton, BA, FRGS

Good knowledge based on career on European Desk of House of Commons library and European Parliament information office. Many books indexed on the EU institutions and other topics such as Brexit, the Conservative Party and Europe, and New Labour in Europe. I recently indexed Circle of stars: a history of the EU and the people who made it by Dermot Hodson (Yale University Press).

Life-long interest. Recent topics include South African health, the timber plantations of South Africa, Uganda, China in Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Ethiopia. I indexed the 3rd edition of John Iliffe’s Africa: the history of a continent (Cambridge University Press).

Good general knowledge, both national and international. Recent indexes include: The Bin Laden papers: how the Abbottabad raid revealed the truth about Al-Qaeda, its leader and his family (Nelly Lahoud) (Yale UP) and The return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans left (Hassan Abbas) (Yale UP).

Many indexes on UK, Africa, Europe, the US and the Middle East. Recently completed: The worm in the apple: a history of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron (Haus Publishing) by Christopher Tugendhat and Brexit unfolded: how no one got what they wanted and they were never going to by Christopher Grey (Biteback).

A range of titles on China, Palestine, the Arab uprisings, the Middle East and Africa. I recently indexed They all made peace – What is peace? The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne (Gingko) and The time of global politics: international relations as a study of the present by Christopher McIntosh (Cambridge University Press)

Recent indexes include: Global governance in a world of change (Cambridge University Press) and Dramas at Westminster: select committees and the quest for accountability (Manchester UP)

A wide range including the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Syrian conflict, Arab uprisings and Putin’s Russia. I recently indexed The Kremlin letters: Stalin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by Reynolds and Pechatnov (Yale University Press).

Examples include: Pablo Yanguas, Why we lie about aid (Zed Books) and Paul Darby et al, African football migration (Manchester UP)

I speak French and have travelled extensively in France, including Strasbourg as part of my career with the European Parliament.

Good knowledge of Spain, speak reasonable Spanish and had a villa in Murcia, Spain for ten years.

A number of indexes about this region on, for example, Libya, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the Arab uprisings.

I have indexed a few books in this area for Zed Books, including United Queerdom by Dan Glass.