Upcoming Events

Maldon In The Great War

A talk about an Essex town and its Great War  

Behind the Barbed Wire Fence – Canada’s Internment Programme

The Work of the Voluntary Aid Detachments (Chauffeuses), 1916-1919

The experiences of the VAD women ambulance drivers during WW1. 

Do we fight the British or the Germans? Boer rebellion 1914-1918

A little known episode of the Great War when with bitter memories of the Boer War  

The Italian Front, 1915-1918

Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. 

Jutland: The Unfinished Battle.

In the 110th anniversary year, Nick Jellicoe will visit the branch to talk about the battle and his famous grandfather.  

Women in War and Peace

An exploration of how the Great War led to great social change for women 

The Franco-Prussian War and its consequences

A seminal conflict in the emergence of Imperial Germany, the consequences of which extended to the outbreak of the Great War. 

The U-Boat Campaign & Anti-Submarine Strategy, Tactics & Operations in the Great War

The controversial German U-boat campaign and the Allied countermeasures are still the subject of much debate. 

From OTC to OCB: the professionalisation of the selection and training of junior officers.

62nd Division at the Second Battle of the Marne, July 1918

Air VC’s – Who and Why?

'Gallipoli - A Walthamstow Perspective'

Anzac Day 2026 Seminar

The WFA Australian NSW Branch's 15th Anzac Day seminar, at the Anzac Memorial, Sydney. Three talks: the AIF at Fromelles, AANS nurse Janet Radcliff, and war poet Edmund Blunden. 

The Shimmering Blue; Lincolnshire Aviation in World War One