2024
Jan 9th: Westerplatte 1939 - The First Shots of World War 2 in Europe with Ian Sanders FRHistS
Feb. 13th: The story of A.V. Roe and Company (AVRO) One of the world's first aircraft builders with Frank Pleszak
March 12th: The Nuremberg Raids with Stuart Hadaway
April 9th: Marlborough Tactics with Paul Beckmann
May 14th: The Cuban Missile Crisis with Ian Sanders FRHistS
June 11th: The Mules of the 14th Army in Burma with Christopher Marshall
July 9th: Normandy talk TBC
August: Holiday month - no talk
Sept. 10th: Operational Research/Air Power talk - title to be finalised with Rob Hewett
Oct. 8th: The Divine Wind with Rob Bucknall
Nov. 12th: “Military graves in Willow Grove, Stockport” – Ray Withnail & “Gallipoli Veterans in Manchester Southern Cemetery” with Tim Cockitt
Dec. 10th: The Christmas Special
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Examples of previous talks
The 1944 Warsaw Uprising
The Surrender of Singapore 1942
The Battle of the Atlantic Operational Research
The Cold War in the North West
Cambrai 1917 - The Battle for Lateau Wood
The Battle of Lake Narocz 1916
The Desert Battle of Qatia 23rd April 1916
The Battle of Verdun 1916
Gettysburg
Scots Guards in Normandy, a difficult August
The Battle of Monte Cassino - 1944
The 1945 Rhine Crossings
The Battle of Waterloo
The Spanish Civil War
The Battle of Tsingtao 1914 - Germany's Gibraltar in the East
The German Invasion of Crete 1941
The Boer Army 1899-1902
1983 - the year the Cold War almost turned hot
The Battle of the Bulge
The Military History of Manchester
Operation Epsom
Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Blenheim 1704
Italian Invasion of Abyssinia 1935-36
Wargaming and military History
Zulu Dawn - The battle of Islandlwana
The Battle of Britain
A WW2 veteran of the Black Watch and the Commandos