Tynemouth World War One Commemoration Project presents a series of free lectures in association with, and hosted by, Northumbria University on the impact of the Great War on both participants at the front and the lives of those left behind at home.

Lecture on Tuesday 4 March 2014:  Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Wolverhampton) - "Haig reconsidered"

Professor Gary Sheffield takes up the Chair for War Studies at Wolverhampton University in September 2013. He has previous held Chairs at King's College London and Birmingham University He is a military historian specialising in the two world wars. His most recent book was published in 2011 as The Chief: Douglas Haig and the Transformation of the British Army. The culmination of a decade of research into Haig, it combines a conventional biography with a study of Haig in the context of the army of his time.

Lecture on Tuesday 8 April 2014:  Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London) - "The Royal Navy during WWI"

Professor Andrew Lambert BA (Law) MA, PhD, is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. After completing his doctoral research at King’s he taught at the University of West of England, the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and also Director of the Laughton Naval History Unit housed at King’s.

Lectures to be held at 6pm at Lecture Room 001 or 002, Northumbria University, City Campus East (Opposite Manors Metro Station), Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK .

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Contact:

Tynemouth World War 1 Commemoration Project

c/o. Essell

29 Howard Street

North Shields NE30 1AR

UK

info@tynemouthworldwarone.org

http://www.tynemouthworldwarone.org/lectures.html