Scheduled for the last weekend in March and the first in April respectively, the Arms and Armour Press one-day event AMERICA'S MILITARY HERITAGE, 1776-1865 and Miniature Figurines SOUTHERN MILITAIRE ')6 are gathering momentum and both present a host of attractions. Military students and readers of book reviews will be more than familiar with those lecturers scheduled for the "American" Convention as they include W.Y.Carman on "Military Costumes 1776-1865"; A Forum on "Weapons and Firepower 17761865" with F.W.Wilkinson and panellists including Major-General B.P.Hughes and Ian Hogg; Major-General J.D.Lunt (who wrote "Charge to Glory") on "Burgoyne and the War of Independence" and David Chandler on "Stonewall Jackson and the Valley of Death 1862". To avoid the crush and disappointments of the previous Convention, Arms and Armour Press are issuing tickets guaranteeing seating to lectures and film Neville Dickinson and his experienced "wargames staff" of Ron Miles and Tony Bath plus a host of other helpers are buzzing around like bees as they organise what will undoubtedly be the largest wargames gathering ever held in the South of England. As mentioned elsewhere in this magazine, their latest acquisition is the staging of a National Individual Skirmish Wargames Championship, conducted by experts Ian Colwill and Mike Blake (co-devisors with Steve Curtis of the commercially produced Individual Skirmish Wargames Rules). Neville tells me that he has had so many applications for trade stands that he is considering taking more space to cope with them and all the other attractions! GREAT COMMANDERS A series of public lectures will be held in the National Army Museum at 2.45 p.m. on Saturdays in 1976. Admission will be by ticket only, available free of charge from the Keeper of Education, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT. 7 February - OLIVER CROMWELL -- Brigadier Peter Young DSO MC MA FSA. 14 February - DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH -- David Chandler MA FRHistS FRGS. 21 February - DUKE OF WELLINGTON -- Michael Glover TD MA. 28 February - FM LORD WOLSELEY -- Michael Blanch BSocSc PhD. 6 March - FM Lord Alexander -- Gen. Sir William Jackson GBE KCB MC ADC (Gen) Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 167 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1976 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com