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Last updated: 18 February 2013

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.

War in the Wilderness: Chindit Campaigns of 1943-44

Recorded on 17 January 2013

Author and former journalist Tony Redding tells the story of the Chindits - an Allied special forces unit operating in Burma during the Second World...

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A Jungle Too Far: Britain and the Vietnam War

Recorded on 6 December 2012

Robert Fleming explores how a secret British involvement in the Vietnam War came about through covert operations, proxies and attachments to US, ...

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War Surgery, 1914-18

Recorded on 25 October 2012

Tom Scotland, a retired orthopaedic surgeon, discusses the improvements in the care of the wounded in casualty clearing stations and base hospitals in...

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Combat Experience in the Falklands War

Recorded on 17 May 2012

Peter Johnston, Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, discusses the contrasting and complex combat experience of the British servicemen...

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The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai

Recorded on 8 March 2012

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...

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Portraits Like Bombs: Eric Kennington and the Second World War

Recorded on 19 January 2012

Dr Jonathan Black, Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, discusses the life and work of Eric Kennington. The lecture focuses...

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Revolution and Civil War: The Contested Origins of the British Army, 1645-1704

Recorded on 23 February 2012

Dr Neil Faulkner, Research Fellow at Bristol University and Editor of 'Military History Monthly', explores the creation of a mould-breaking 'British...

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Jane Austen and the Army

Recorded on 8 September 2011

Prize-winning historian Rupert Willoughby explains how Jane Austen's novels reveal an intricate grasp both of military technicalities and of...

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Cleverest Man in the Army: The Life of FM Sir William Robertson

Recorded on 6 October 2011

Justin Saddington discusses the life of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson and the themes of late Victorian and Edwardian Army reform and British...

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Turncoats and Renegadoes

Recorded on 22 September 2011

Dr Andrew Hopper, Lecturer in English Local History at the University of Leicester, discusses the practice of side changing and the role of treachery...

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