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Previous Lectures

Below is a list of all of our recent Lectures, their recordings are available through our members area.

All talks are free for Subscribing and Student Members. Non-Members are welcome, please pay £5.00 per talk via BACS transfer, or enrol as a Member for only £20 pa to attend all talks free. CLICK HERE for Membership benefits & payment details.

2021 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2021, you need to be a member of the Association.

29 Jan

Losing sight of the Glory, Six centuries of Combat Trauma

Michael Crumplin

25 Feb

Gulf War Logistics & Challenges of Medical Resupply

Brig (retd) Peter Sharpe

09 Apr

Farthest Fields - The Medical Services in India-Burma

Col (retd) Soundarajan Jagdish

21 May

Shipwreck, Sharks & Seasickness, Memories of the Royal Navy Medical Service in the Second World War

Frances Houghton

23 Jul

Blood, Metal & Dust - Lessons from Iraq & Afghanistan

Brig (retd) Ben Barry

24 Sep

The Evolution of First Aid Training in the British Army

Lt Gen (retd) Prof Martin Bricknell

29 Oct

On the Shoulders of Giants

Paul Watkins

27 Nov

History of Spinal Cord Injury Management

Lt Col John Reynard

17 Dec

Golf, Gunshots & Other Surgical Ramblings

David Jackson

2022 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2022, you need to be a member of the Association.

28 Jan

Medicine & Surgery in Nelson’s Navy

Peter Brinsden

25 Feb

Recognition for Nurses, A History of the Royal Red Cross

Lt Col (retd) Simon Davies
Brig-Gen Roger Scott
Capt Nathan Freeman

25 Mar

Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Father of the British Army Medical Services

Tom Scotland

09 Apr

From one pandemic to another: Spanish Flu in WW1 & Covid 19

Jane Orr

13 May

Two Heroes of Malta’s War

Gp Capt Paul McDonald

01 Jul

The Falklands War 40th Anniversary, Personal Reflections from Role 1 & Role 2

Col (retd) John Burgess
Lt Col (retd) David Jackson

29 Jul

The Battle of Britain: 80 years on

Chris Leworthy

30 Sep

Military Medical Dilemmas: Ethics in Decision Making
When unexpected survivors become the Trustees of each other

Lt Gen (retd) Martin Bricknell
Dr Emily Mayhew

29 Oct

A Doctor's War: How a RAF Doctor survived Dunkirk, Captivity & the Atomic Bomb

Bob Jackson

25 Nov

History of the Victoria Cross, Harold Ackroyd & other VC Heroes

Christopher Ackroyd

09 Dec

Sir David Bruce & the History of Brucellosis

Col (Retd) David Vassallo

2023 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2023, you need to be a member of the Association.

27 Jan

Developments in Military Medicine

Col (retd) Walter Henny

24 Feb

Fighting the Unseen Foe: Tetanus, Antitoxic Serum & the RAMC in WW1

Edward Wawrzynczak

31 Mar

The Battle of Fallujah (Op Al-Fajr: Background, Planning & Operation)

Col (retd) Ashleigh Boreham

28 Apr

Memorials to medical personnel from the Crimean War

Mike Hinton

26 May

Invisible Light: The history of military radiology

Adrian Thomas

30 Jun

English Civil War Wounds & Surgery

Prof Steve Rutherford

21 Jul

Medical Lessons from the Korean War for the Present Day

Lt Gen (retd) Martin Bricknell

29 Sep

Malaria and War

Prof Nicholas White

27 Oct

Medical Support at the Siege of Kohima, April 1944

Soundarajan Jagdish
Matthew Roberts

24 Nov

Great Losses of the Great War

Lt Col John Reynard

08 Dec

Armageddon: Surgical Challenges in World War One

Mick Crumplin

2024 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2024, you need to be a member of the Association.

26 Jan

Diseases & mortality in the armies of 19th Century British India

David Gawkrodger

23 Feb

British Army Ambulance Trains & their place in history

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Col (retd) Brian Robertson

26 Apr

In Musical Fidelis: Music in the Army Medical Services

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Terry Hissey

24 May

In war and disaster - reflections of a trauma surgeon

Finn Warburg

28 Jun

Falklands War and SS Canberra

Martin Reed & Susie West

26 Jul

Gallant Little Wales

David Jones

27 Sep

100 Million Years of Malaria history

Tim Mason

25 Oct

George Blair and other POW doctors in Taiwan in the Second World War 

Prof Katherine Venables

27 Oct

Robert Jones - Fighting a War on Two Fronts

Tom Scotland

2025 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2025, you need to be a member of the Association.

21 Jan

The Boer War: The birth of Army nursing?

Keiron Spires

28 Feb

Arms and the Mind: An innovative Approach to Mental Trauma in the First World War

Beverly Bergman

28 Mar

Gaza Medic - A War Surgeon’s Story 2024

Richard Villar

25 Apr

The surgeon-soldier who shot the loch ness monster

Millbank & Netley

Iain Macintyre

Martyn Lovell

30 May

A technique, not a technology - Simulation within our Services

Alex Saunders

27 Jun

Op PALLISER and Op BARRAS - 25 Years on

David Vassallo

25 Jul

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper - How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain - Book Launch

Christine Slobogin

27 Aug

Remembering VJ Day - The Borneo Graveyard 1941-1945

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John Tulloch

26 Sep

The Development and Spread of Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccination

Steve Bacon

31 Oct

Dr Frank Pantidge MC FEPOW and inventor of the portable defibrillator

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Cecil Lowry

28 Nov

The Women’s Work Collection at the Imperial War Museum

Sarah Paterson

08 Dec

Armageddon: Surgical Challenges in World War One

Mick Crumplin

2026 Lectures

To view the lectures from 2026, you need to be a member of the Association.

30 Jan

Strategic Medical Lessons from the 20th Century to inform the 21st - The contemporary relevance of military medical history

Martin Bricknell

27 Feb

Sir John Pringle (1707-1782); bringing Enlightenment thinking to the battlefield

Iain Macintyre

13 Mar

The evolution of Military Emergency
Medicine: are we ready for the next war?

Tim Hodgetts

24 Apr

Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin (1787-1847), A surgeon of the Napoleonic War

Adrian Thomas

29 May

Vignettes from the former Royal Army Dental Corps

Quentin Anderson

26 Jun

Captain Kenneth Walker RAMC and the paradigm shift in battlefield medicine in WWI

Dominic Hodgson

25 Sep

Icarus - the first Air Accident Investigation

Alec Hurley

30 Oct

Echos of Captivity

Louide Reynolds

27 Nov

WWI facial trauma innovations, it wasn’t just Gillies

Mike Davidson

28 Nov

The Women’s Work Collection at the Imperial War Museum

Sarah Paterson

08 Dec

Armageddon: Surgical Challenges in World War One

Mick Crumplin

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