In this engaging talk Gary Sheffield will discuss an eclectic list of objects, using them to examine some unfamiliar facts about the First World War and offering a fresh perspective on this world-changing historic event.

Professor Gary Sheffield MA, Ph D, FRHistS, FRSA, hold the Chair of War Studies in the Department of History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. With Professor Stephen Badsey, he is co-director of the First World War Research Group. He was educated at the University of Leeds (BA, MA) and King's College London, where he studied for his Ph D. He started his academic career in the Department of War Studies, RMA Sandhurst, before moving to KCL's Defence Studies Department, based at the JSCSC, Shrivenham, where he was Land Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course. Awarded a Personal Chair by KCL in 2005, he took up the newly-created Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2006 before moving to the University of Wolverhampton in September 2013.

Gary Sheffield is an internationally-recognised expert on the First World War, especially the role of the British army. His research interests are, broadly, Britain in the age of total war, 1914 to 1945, and military history, especially land warfare, since Napoleon. He has published many books and articles, including the best-selling Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities (2001); Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18 (2005,co-editor with John Bourne) and The Chief - Douglas Haig and the British Army (2011), which was short-listed for the 2012 Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature. He shared the 2003 Templer Medal for his contribution to David French and Brian Holden Reid (eds.) The British General Staff: Innovation and Reform (2002). His most recent book is Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 (2014). A Short History of the First World War will be published in September 2014.

He is President of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides, and Vice-President of the Western Front Association. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, Visiting Professor at the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham, member of the academic Advisory Panel of the National Army Museum, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust

Venue:  Army & Navy Club, 36-39 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5JN, UK 

Time:  8.00pm

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