Monthly lectures are available free to members and guests. Featuring renowned speakers from Australian defence and security organisations, universities, other historical societies and “think tanks”, these insightful topics provide great depth into conflicts and period of history of historical military importance.
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents [...]
The Military History Society of New South Wales Incorporated presents [...]
Mr. David Twyford, Society Member and former RAAF pilot and flying instructor, on The English Electric Canberra Bomber and its part in the Malayan Emergency, 1950-60.
Major General the Honourable Justice Paul Brereton AM, RFD on From Soudan to the South West Pacific: Military campaigns and the development of national identity.
The Brigadier E. J. H. (John) Howard CBE Commemorative Lecture for 2015 with Dr Rhys Crawley, Centre for Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University on Reconsidering the August Offensive, the climax at Gallipoli, 1915.
Benjamin Howell has studied the Napoleonic Wars for the past 20 years and has previously presented to the Society on both the Russian and Spanish / Iberian campaigns. The lecture will cover Napoleon’s Elba exile & return to France, and the 100 days (including the famous Battle itself from both the French and Allied English perspectives).
This lecture reviews the historic and decisive ‘Battle of Khalkhin Gol’, which resulted in the 1939 defeat of the Japanese Sixth Army on the border of Mongolia and Manchukuo.
The Military History Society of NSW Inc presents Dr. Stephen Bourke, Archaeologist, Sydney University and Director of the Pella Excavation on the Invasion of the Sea Peoples on Saturday, 9 May 2015.
Dr Rhys Crawley, Australian National University, will lead a half day seminar on the personalities (in London and in theatre) with a focus on GHQ and how it worked together and with the Navy (or did not work together) in planning (strategically and operationally) the events of April 1915.
The Military History Society of NSW Inc presents Mr. Steve McGregor on Warfare in Ancient Egypt, Weapons and Tactics of the Greek Phalanxes, the Roman Legions and more on Saturday, 14 March 2015.
