National Events
'The BEF: The final verdict': a lecture by Prof John Bourne
08 Jun 2019 14:30Yorkshire
Now that the Great War is more than a hundred years behind us, and after five years of centenaries, …
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'The Treaty of Versailles' a talk by Dr Simon Peaple
10 Jun 2019 19:00Lincoln & North Lincolnshire
Dr Simon Peaple presents his talk “The Treaty of Versailles, 1919”
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‘Did Currie and the Canadians Win the War?’ with Robert Linnell
11 Jun 2019 19:15Middlesex
Robert Linnnell will be giving a talk on Sir Arthur Currie. Robert Linnell is the author of ‘The For…
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Shell Shock by Suzie Grogan
12 Jun 2019 19:30Somerset
Shell Shock by Suzie Grogan. 80,000 men were diagnosed with shell shock during the Great War but t…
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Mike Taylor - 'Beyond the Somme - Brig-Gen Frank Crozier and the Welsh Bant…
13 Jun 2019 18:30Antrim and Down
Mike Taylor talks about the command by the controversial Brigadier Frank Percy Crozier of the 119 Br…
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'There is more to Cambrai than Tanks' with Ross Beadle
15 Jun 2019 16:30Birmingham
The great incursion by the tanks into the German lines at Cambrai on 20th November 1917 was all but …
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First War World - The Shaping Of The Modern World with Prof. Gary Sheffield…
17 Jun 2019 20:00Southend on Sea
Sir Max Hastings has described Gary as “One of Britain’s foremost historians of the First World War,…
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A Tower of Strength - Dr Michael LoCicero
19 Jun 2019 19:45Avon
A Tower of Strength - Brigadier-General Edward Bulfin and the 1914 campaign in France and Flanders. …
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Talk: ‘The Fall Of Beaumont Hamel: What Went Right For The Germans In July …
24 Jun 2019 19:15Northumberland
Talk: ‘The Fall Of Beaumont Hamel: What Went Right For The Germans In July 1916 & Went So Badly …
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Marietta Crichton Stuart : Alice in Wonderland and her lost boys: from Ox…
27 Jun 2019 20:00Thames Valley
Marietta Crichton Stuart : Alice in Wonderland and her lost boys: from Oxford and the rabbit hole to…
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In Search of the Unknown Warrior
29 Jun 2019 14:30Scotland (Tayside)
Ron Scrimgeor The story of the 'Unknown Warrior' has fascinated Ron Scrimgeour for more than forty …
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'Frightfulness - Britain and the Advent of Chemical Warfare on the Western …
01 Jul 2019 19:30Lancashire (North)
Frightfulness - Britain and the Advent of Chemical Warfare on the Western Front 1915 by Nick Paul R…
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J.R.R. Tolkien and the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers on the Somme -- By John Bo…
02 Jul 2019 19:30Chesterfield
John Bourne has been doing some work on J.R.R. Tolkien and the Great War with his friend Tom Shippey…
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"Field Marshall Julian Byng" a talk by William Franklin.
03 Jul 2019 19:00Cambridgeshire
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy,is the subject of this presentation by William Franklin. He w…
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‘Lawrence of Arabia: Man, Movie and Myth’ with Dr John Peaty FRGS FRHistS
09 Jul 2019 19:15Middlesex
Lawrence was probably the most remarkable officer to have served in the British Army during the Grea…
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