Events

The Lecture Series 2008

The Trustees of
THE SECOND WORLD WAR EXPERIENCE CENTRE
invite you to their

NINTH ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES 2008

THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

MAX HASTINGS
IN THE CLOTHWORKERS' HALL,
THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
By kind permission of the University

NICOLA TYRER
ANDREW ROBERTS
ERIC 'WINKLE' BROWN
in THE STATE APARTMENTS
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA
By kind permission of the Governor

Sponsored by Serco Defence, Science and Technology

PROGRAMME

MAX HASTINGS
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944-45
The Clothworkers’ Hall, the University of Leeds
Wednesday 1^st October

NICOLA TYRER
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps:
The Unsung Heroines of World War Two
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 7^th October

ANDREW ROBERTS
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Allied Grand Strategy 1941 - 1945
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Wednesday 22^nd October

ERIC ‘WINKLE’ BROWN
Searching for Germany’s Aviation Secrets
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 4^th November

Lectures begin at 6.40 pm
Reception & Refreshments 6.00 pm & after the Lecture from 8.00 till 8.45pm

The Clothworkers’ Centenary Hall at Leeds University was formerly a 19th century Presbyterian chapel, now restored as a concert venue through the generosity of the Clothworkers’ Foundation. King Charles ll founded the Royal Hospital Chelsea, built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682, for soldiers after long service or crippled in war. The Trustees of the Second World War Experience Centre are grateful to Serco Defence, Science and Technology, the Governor of the Royal Hospital, The University of Leeds and the Lecturers, for making these evenings possible.

Tickets £25 for each lecture.

Telephone enquiries (0113) 258 4993
email: enquiries@war-experience.org

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Wednesday 1^st October
MAX HASTINGS
Sir Max Hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster wbo contributes regularly to Britain’s Guardian, Daily Mail and Sunday Times. He is the author of 20 books of which the most recent are Armageddon. The Battle for Germany 1944-45; and Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45. In 1986-1995 he became editor, then editor-in-chief, of the Daily Telegraph and subsequently of the London Evening Standard, 1996-2002. He has received awards for both his books and journalism, and honorary degrees from Leicester and Nottingham universities. He has presented many TV documentaries, including the 2003 Channel 4 Winston’s War. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

Tuesday 7^th October
NICOLA TYRER
NicolaTyrer, the author of Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story, read Modern Languages at Girton College before becoming a journalist on the London Evening News and since the mid-eighties working freelance, principally for the Telegraph and Daily Mail. She specialised in the impact on family life of working mothers, the effects on children of rising levels of screen violence and the challenges of imposing discipline in a morally relativist society. Her current area of interest is in chronicling the largely uncelebrated role played by women in World War Two. A previous book, They Fought In the Fields, remains the only history of the Women’s Land Army.

Wednesday 22^nd October
ANDREW ROBERTS
Andrew Roberts FRSL is an honorary senior scholar from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, His publications include Eminent Churchillians; Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award); Napoleon and Wellington,’ Hitler and Churchill; and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900. He contributes to the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

Tuesday 4^th November
ERIC 'WINKLE' BROWN
Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown Is the Fleet Air Arm’s most decorated pilot. After a distinguished wartime operational tour he later served as Chief Naval Test Pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough where he commanded the Enemy Aircraft Flight, the High Speed Flight and the prestigious Aerodynamics Flight. During thc Korean War he served as a test pilot at the US Naval Test Center at Patuxent River. He has flown a world record 487 basic types of aircraft. A past President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, in 1995 he was inducted into the US Navy’s Carrier Aviation Test Pilot Hall of Honor, the only non-American to have received this accolade.