Last updated: 30 August 2011
Some of our Lunchtime Lectures are available to watch online. Please be aware that, owing to copyright restrictions, certain sections may have been edited out.
These videos have been produced with the generous assistance of Mr Frank Busby.
Writer, researcher and historian Julie Summers examines the true story behind the Oscar-winning film 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. It is, in essence, a story of bloody-minded determination not to give up in the face of an implacable enemy.
Dr Jonathan Black, Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, discusses the life and work of Eric Kennington. The lecture focuses on Kennington's Second World War images of infantry soldiers, tankmen, home guardsmen and generals.
Dr Neil Faulkner, Research Fellow at Bristol University and Editor of 'Military History Monthly', explores the creation of a mould-breaking 'British way of war' that enabled the British to humble the power of France and win a global empire.
Prize-winning historian Rupert Willoughby explains how Jane Austen's novels reveal an intricate grasp both of military technicalities and of contemporary events.
Justin Saddington discusses the life of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson and the themes of late Victorian and Edwardian Army reform and British strategy in the First World War.
Dr Andrew Hopper, Lecturer in English Local History at the University of Leicester, discusses the practice of side changing and the role of treachery and traitors during the English Civil Wars.
Robert Fleming explores the urban archaeological record of extant damage in London that resulted from the German strategic bombing campaign of the Second World War, and the visible legacy of the subsequent rebuilding of the city.