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 1st October
NICOLA TYRER
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps:
The Unsung Heroines of World War Two
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 7th October
ANDREW ROBERTS
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Allied Grand Strategy 1941 - 1945
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Wednesday 22nd October
ERIC ‘WINKLE’ BROWN
Searching for Germany’s Aviation Secrets
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Tuesday 4th 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 1st 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 7th 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 22nd 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 4th 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.
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