Events

2011

October

4 October: Dr John Bourne (University of Birmingham) ‘Everyman at War: The Case of Lance Corporal Geoffrey Husbands’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

4 October: David Edgerton (Imperial College London) ‘London Sons of the Sea: a new look at British imports in the Second World War’, British Maritime History Seminar at the IHR, 5:15pm

4 October: Dr Peter Busch (King’s College London) ‘Military-Media Relations in the Shadow of Germany’s Nazi Past: The Bundeswehr 1955-1965’, International History Seminar at the IHR, 6:00pm, Bloomsbury Room (35), Ground floor, South block, Senate House

11 October: James Pugh (University of Birmingham) ‘Early British Air Power Doctrine and the Influence of the Staff College, 1908-14’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

11 October: Professor William Philpott (King’s College London) ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s Command? The Image of the French Army in Haig’s Record of the War’, Military History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st Floor

18 October: Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham) ‘The Battle of Midway – An Incredible Victory?’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

25 October: Mike Bullock and Larry Lyons ‘Missed Signals – The BEF’s Signal Service on the Western Front’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

25 October: Dr Jack Sheldon, ‘The German Manpower Crisis of 1918’, Military History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st Floor

31 October: David Anderson (University of Oxford) ‘Rule of fear: Col. Arthur Young, state violence and the Kenya Emergency, 1953-55’, World and Imperial History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Woburn Suite, Senate House

November

1 November: Dr Edward Hampshire (The National Archives) “Defence is Different’: Margaret Thatcher, Francis Pym and British defence policy in an era of austerity’, International History Seminar at the IHR, 6:00pm, Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House

1 November: Professor Peter Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield and Attlee Professor of British Contemporary History, Queen Mary College, ‘The Reluctant Bomb: Prime Ministers, Cabinet, Whitehall and Nuclear policy’, Annual Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Lecture, 6:00pm, Great Hall, King’s College London

7 November: Professor Brian Bond, ‘The DOCKRILL LECTURE: Distortions of Hindsight: Britain’s two World Wars with Germany’ Please note the lecture will start at 17:30 and will be held in the Great Hall, King’s College London. RSVP to jayne.peake@kcl.ac.uk

8 November: Andrew Limm (University of Birmingham) ‘The Experience and Conduct of the British Army in the Low Countries, 1793-1814’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

8 November: Catherine Wilson (University of Hull) ‘Winston S. Churchill: Hiding behind History, east of Suez’, Military History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st Floor

9 November: Fresh Perspective on Britain in World War Two: A Postgraduate and Early Career Historians Conference, Imperial College London

14 November: Josiah Kaplan (University of Oxford) ‘Britain in Sierra Leone, 2000-2002: the Heroic Narrative of Humanitarian Intervention in Practice’, World and Imperial History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Woburn Suite, Senate House

15 November: Colonel Patrick Crowley (MOD) ‘Kut 1916’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

15 November: Chris Brennan (London School of Economics) ‘Karl I of Austria’s political amnesty of July 1917’, International History Seminar at the IHR, 6:00pm, Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House

18 November: New Research in Military History: A Postgraduate and Early Career Historians Conference, The British Commission for Military History in association with the History of Warfare Research Group at King’s College London, Strand Campus – Call for Papers can be found here

22 November: Daniel Whittingham (King’s College London) TBC, Military History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st Floor

29 November: Dr Helen Parr (Keele University) ‘Anglo-French nuclear relations’ International History Seminar at the IHR, 6:00pm, Athlone Room (102), First floor, South block, Senate House

December

6 December: Paul Ramsay (University of Calgary) ‘The British Way in Warfare and the Complexity of Strategy: From Spenser Wilkinson and Julian Corbett to Liddell Hart’ Military History Seminar at the IHR, 5:00pm, Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st Floor

2012

January

10 January: Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza (Kings College London) ‘The Role of Secondary Navies under Pax Britannica: The Spanish Case’, British Maritime History Seminar at the IHR, 5:15pm

17 January: Ross Mahoney (University of Birmingham) ‘Leadership Effectiveness: Understanding a Key Metric of Operational Military History – Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory, a Case Study’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

31 January: Dr Bob Bushaway (University of Birmingham) Topic tba, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

February

7 February: Professor Bruce Collins (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘The British Experience of Siege Warfare, 1779-99’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

7 February: Daniel Spence (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Naval Volunteerism in Hong Kong, 1933-1967’, British Maritime History Seminar at the IHR, 5:15pm

March

6 March: Dr Matthew Bennett (RMA Sandhurst) ‘Crusades, Money and Mercenaries’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

6 March: Richard Blakemore (University of Cambridge) ‘Thinking outside the gundeck: the navy, the maritime community, and the outbreak of civil war, 1625-42’ British Maritime History Seminar at the IHR, 5:15pm

20 March: Ellen Gill (University of Sydney) “Children of the Service’: Paternalism, Patronage and Friendship in the Georgian Navy’, British Maritime History Seminar at the IHR, 5:15pm

May

1 May: THE JOHN TERRAINE LECTURE. Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Birmingham) ‘Terraine’s Haig’, War Studies Seminar at the University of Birmingham, 5:00pm, Arts Lecture Room 3, First Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

19 May: Falklands Conflict Thirty Years On, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth – Call for Paper can be found here

July

6-7 July: Liberal Wars, University of Reading – Call for Papers can be here

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