News & Event Reports

'Captain Young winning the Military Cross during the Battle of the Somme, 1916' by Stanley Llewellyn Wood (National Army Museum)
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‘Rogues with Rifles: The 5/60th Rifles in the Peninsular War’ by Robert Griffith
Thursday 6th February 2020
Templer Lecture: Prof Helen Parr on 'Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper'
Thursday 14th November 2019
Templer First Book Prize Lecture: Dr Aimee Fox on 'Learning to Fight'
Thursday 12th September 2019
Council Member Eamonn O'Keeffe to appear on BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"
Tuesday 6th August 2019
Helion & Co. Conference - Life in the Red Coat: The British Soldier 1721-1815
Saturday 27th April 2019
Ismini Pells - Everyday Soldiering, Military Welfare and the Human Costs of the English Civil Wars
Tuesday 11th September 2018
‘Wellington, San Sebastian and Siege Warfare Revisited’ - Professor Bruce Collins
Thursday 14th June 2018
Lecture – ‘So noble-hearted a soldier’: Field Marshal Earl Roberts (1832-1914)
Thursday 15th February 2018
Lecture – "A breach between the two services": Lord Chatham and the 1809 Walcheren Expedition
Thursday 16th November 2017
Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 25th April 2017
On 25 April the Society gathered at RUSI in London for its AGM, and to honour the winners of the Templer Medal and the Student Essay Prize.
Erica Charters - 'Manpower and State Power in the Eighteenth Century'
Monday 21st November 2016
'Manpower and State Power in the Eighteenth Century: Technologies of Knowledge in Franco-British Wars'
2015 Templer Lecture
Wednesday 16th November 2016
Challenges Faced by the UK High Command in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Emile Simpson – ‘War from the Ground Up’
Thursday 21st January 2016
Emile Simpson – ‘War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics’