Upcoming Events

The rising of the son

This presentation focuses on the selection and exhumation of the Unknown Warrior  

A Game for Christmas: Football on the Western Front, December 1914?

Zeppelin and Gotha attacks on Southend on Sea during the Great war

The War Art of Wyndham Lewis 1918-1919

An author, painter and critic, Wyndham Lewis co-founded the Vorticist movement and was appointed an official War Artist for both the British and Canadian governments.  

AGM & Members Evening

Television and The Great War

The U-boat Campaign and Anti-submarine Strategy, Tactics and Operations in the Great War

What was the German tactic of unrestricted submarine warfare and what other strategies did they use during the Great War? 

Branch Open Forum

Goodbye old man - the artist Fortunino Matania's vision of the Great War

Fortunino Matania's war art. 

Lancaster War Graves Tour

An evening visiting Lancaster War Graves 

The Battle of Verdun

Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 

Dr Peter Hodgkinson: Evolving Meritocracy in the BEF

The development of a skill-based partial meritocracy within infantry battalion command. 

Soldier photographers of the Great War

Details to follow 

August 1914 - Follow a Supply Column and others through mobilisation and the total chaos of the opening weeks of the Great War

Roy Larkin returns to talk on another aspect of the Army Service Corps 

Total War and Women Footballers - The Dagenham Invincibles of World War One

The story of the top women's football team in the First World War.