After a varied career spanning two decades, in 2001 Nicolas Mitchell fulfilled a lifelong ambition and went up to university reading for a 1st in Politics at the University of Nottingham and then a Masters degree in International Politics and Research Methods at the University of Sheffield.
After graduating in 2006 a family employment opportunity took him to Munich, where a passion for historical research found him exploring the role this Bavarian city played in the birth of National Socialism and political oppression. He subsequently obtained employment at Dachau Memorial Site undergoing training with the education department and then leading the Open Tour of the site communicating with hundreds of visitors from all parts of the world. In the winter of 2009 he spent time visiting and researching numerous important locations associated with the Holocaust in Poland before returning home to the UK.
He is now based in Sheffield on the edge of the Peak District and continues to engage in historical research. As a keen long distance cycle tourist Nicolas spent 2011 researching and writing his latest guidebook to an iconic UK cycle route; he is now back on more familiar territory researching the Holocaust in Poland with plans for a new guidebook in the winter of 2012.