The NHSA are very honoured to welcome Professor Raymond Callahan as our speaker for this event in which we study the key battle of Kohima in the Burma theatre in 1944. Ray Callahan is a pre-eminent contemporary authority on Field Marshal Slim and the Burma campaign. His many acclaimed works include “Triumph at Imphal-Kohima: How the […]

The NHSA is honoured to welcome Eric Schnitzer as our speaker for this event, in which we study the battles of Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights that proved decisive in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War in 1777. Eric has been a ranger and historian at Saratoga National Historical Park for more than 20 […]

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 […]