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        A Forgotten Factor on the Forgotten Front: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Salonika Front - Dr Robert Brown, Research Fellow Wellcome Trust
4:30 – 5:00        Plenary    

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