Ian Senior has taught at Dulwich College, a boarding and day school for boys, in Dulwich in southeast London, England. He is also Associate Lecturer in the History of Art for the Open University, a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. He first became interested in the battlefields of 1914 when visiting his wife's family in her native Belgium. Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.