The NHSA is delighted to welcome Ian Knight as our speaker for an event in which we study the battle of Ulundi, the final major engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Ian is internationally regarded as the current leading authority on the nineteenth-century history of the Zulu kingdom, and in particular the Anglo-Zulu War. […]
The NHSA is delighted and honoured to welcome Major General (Retired) James Cowan CBE DSO as our speaker for this event in which we study what is probably the most well-known battle of the Napoleonic Wars. James has had a long and very distinguished military career that included command of the 1st Battalion, The Black […]
This is a reprise of the event of 15 and 16 June but on this occasion we are delighted to have Professor Charles Esdaile as our speaker. Professor of History at Liverpool University, Charles has been prolific in his publications on the Napoleonic Wars. His many works on the period include "Fighting Napoleon" (2004) and "Napoleon's Wars" (2007) and, with reference to […]
The NHSA is delighted to welcome Charles Singleton once again as our speaker for this event in which we study one of the decisive conflicts of the English Civil War: the great battle for the North of England at Marston Moor. Charles was the editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History and is the […]
The NHSA is delighted and honoured to welcome Dr. Prit Buttar as our speaker for this event in which we study the northern sector of the great battle of Kursk in 1943, one of the decisive battles of the Second World War. Prit served as a medical officer in the British Army for five years […]
This is a repeat of the event of 5 and 6 October in which we study the epic battle in the Second World War for the northern sector of the Kursk salient. On this occasion the talk by Dr Prit Buttar will take place on Sunday 20 October 2024 at 9.30 am. Please contact Philip […]
