National Army Museum
Imperial War Museum

Forthcoming Lectures and Events 2004

by Lionel Levanthal

National Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT Tel. 020 7730 0717 Lunchtime lectures: these begin at 1.00 p.m.

13 May ‘Bull and Bullets’: National Service 1945-1963 Keith Miller, NAM

20 May The British Soldier on D-Day Richard Ingram, Historian and Author

27 May Monuments and Military Characters in Kensal Green Cemetery Frances Casey, NAM

3 June ‘The Sick Man of Europe?’: The Ottoman Army and the Crimean War Simon Moody, NAM

10 June ‘D-Day in Detail’: The British and Canadian Beaches Andrew Robertshaw, NAM

17 June ‘How not to fight a battle’: Cavalry at Waterloo Dave Kenyon, Cavalry Historian

24 June The Military Campaigns of Harry Flashman: A Study Julian Farrance, NAM

1 July Women Serving in the Crimea Samantha Doty, NAM

8 July Fighting Johnny Bulgar: The British Army in Salonika, 1915–1919 Simon Moody, NAM

15 July Wilfred Owen and the Serre Dugout 1917: Archaeology, Literature and History Andrew Robertshaw, NAM

22 July Early Norman Castles: New Research and Interpretation Stuart Prior, Archaeologist and Castellologist

29 July ‘A Really Obscure Campaign’: Darfur 1916 Katherine Boyce, NAM

Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ Box Office 020 7416 5439 (weekdays 10.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m.)

15 May, 2.00 p.m. Remembering D-Day: Personal Histories of Everyday Heroes Gallery talk and book signing by Martin Bowman. HarperCollins in association with the IWM Tickets free: booking advised

19 May, 7.00 p.m. D-Day 6th June 1944 Talk and book signing by Richard Holmes Tickets £7.50 and concessions £6.00

24 June, 7.00 p.m. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand A talk by the film maker Jan Kaplan to mark the ninetieth anniversary of events which led to the outbreak of the First World War Tickets £7.50 FIWM and concessions £6.00

6 July, 7.00 p.m. The Hitler Émigrés: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism Talk with question-and-answer session by Daniel Snowman, author of the book of the same title Tickets £25.00 FIWM and concessions £10.00

20 July, 10.00 a.m.–5.00 p.m. Traitors to Hitler: The plot to assassinate the Führer on 20 July 1944 A seminar of films and talks organised with the London Jewish Cultural Centre and the film maker Rex Bloomstein to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the failed German attempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler Tickets £25 FIWM and concessions £10.00


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