Dear all,

I hope to see as many pals as possible at the National Army Museum 90th Anniversary conference on 1-2 November 2008.

Details below:

It should be fun.

Simon Moody
Archivist
NAM


1918: Journey’s End?
Programme

Saturday November 1, 2008

10:30 – 11:20 'Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Myth and Reality in the Great
War'
Major Gordon Corrigan MBE, Military Historian

11:30 – 12:20 ‘Pursue and annihilate’: the East Africa campaign in 1918
Edward Paice, Historian

1:30- 2:20 The Home Front and the Endgame, 1918
Professor Ian F W Beckett, Military Historian

2:30 – 3:20 'The biggest single piece of work since the pharaohs': the role
of the Imperial War Graves Commission, 1917-1939
Professor Mark Connelly, Academic

3:40 – 4:30 The First World War did not end on 11 November 1918
Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War,
University of Oxford

4:30 – 5:00 Plenary

Sunday November 2, 2008

10:30 – 11:20 “Bloodshed" or "peaceful purpose": The British West Indies
Regiment Mutiny and the Caribbean League
Dr Richard Smith Historian, Goldsmiths University of London

11:30 – 12:20 Zeebrugge
Alan Wakefield, Imperial War Museum

1:30- 2:20 Shattered Hopes. The Disintegration of the German Army in
1918
Benjamin Ziemann, Reader in Modern History, University of
Sheffield

2:30 – 3:20 The Naval blockade and its contribution to victory
Andrew Lambert, King’s College London

3:40 – 4:30 The Flu Epidemic
Dr Robert Brown, Research Fellow Wellcome Trust

4:30 – 5:00 Plenary


Tickets: One day: £25.00 Standard / £20.00 NAM Friends and concessions
Two days: £45.00 Standard / £35.00 NAM Friends and concessions
Tickets available at the NAM Shop on 020 7730 0717 ext. 2240 or email shop@national-army-museum.ac.uk

For further information: go to www.national-army-museum.ac.uk or call 020 7730 0717 ext. 2336. National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London.

Nearest tube Sloane Square.

The programme may be subject to change.

Podcast possibility (release after event?)

Any further news about this event ? How it was ?

Well, all went pretty well (as a host, I was relieved), though I am probably biased. All the talks were very good and we had some very positive feedback from the audience. Numbers were also up on last year. Thanks to all who took part.

We hope to continue into the brave new world of the 1920s next year!

All the Best

Simon Moody