The South African
Military History Society
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging


Archive of selected lectures

From time to time a lecture will be added to this part of the website based on the interest it generated and the availability of suitable notes from the speaker(s)

The advent of ZOOM lectures means most lectures are recorded following the shut down due to Covid-19 in 2020. The Video Library is also on this website.

Some South Africans who served in Special Forces including the Royal Marines during WWII
Simon Bailey and Genl "Mac" Alexander
Port Elizabeth - 2009 and Q&A in 2023
The newsletter p09febne contains the original lecture summary.
Biodiversity Management in Africa in Conflict Areas
Ranger Adam
Port Elizabeth - April 2022- zoom lecture
The rise to power of Adolf Hitler and Franklin D Roosevelt
John Myburgh
Johannesburg Feb 2020 - main lecture
H L Hunley
Jan-Willem Hoorweg
Johannesburg Jan 2020 - curtain raiser
Radar - How awareness of the unseen helped to win a war
Gil Jacobs
Johannesburg Sep 2019 - main lecture
Perspectives on the life and death of T E Lawrence
Terry Leaver
Johannesburg Aug 2019 - curtain raiser
ENIGMA summary
Ian Copley
SAMHSEC Feb 2019 - main lecture
Dresden: 13 February 1945
John Myburgh
Johannesburg Feb 2018 - main lecture
Against all odds - the defence of Rorkes Drift
Tiaan Jacobs
Port Elizabeth - February 2016
Poets and Poems of World War I
Nick Cowley & Dot Hodgkiss
Johannesburg Oct 2015 - curtain raiser
A name amongst seafaring men
Capt I Little
Johannesburg Mar 2015 - curtain raiser
Songs of World War I
Nick Cowley
Johannesburg Oct 2014 - main lecture
Diving the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm
Garth & Stephanie Harris
Johannesburg Sep 2014 - main lecture
The Longitude Problem
Gil Jacobs
Johannesburg June 2014 - main lecture
President Lincoln's Spy
Marjorie Dean
Johannesburg June 2014 - curtain raiser
Focke Wulf 190
Tim Waudby
Johannesburg Nov 2013 - curtain raiser
HMS Durban in the Mediterranean 1935-36
Jon Parkinson
Johannesburg Sep 2013 - main lecture
De la Rey - the Lion of the West
John Bleloch
Johannesburg Sep 2013 - curtain raiser
Scapa Flow & the History beneath the Waves
Alan Mantle
Johannesburg Aug 2013 - main lecture
The War in North Africa 1940-43 - Union of SA's contribution
James Jacobs
Johannesburg June 2013 - curtain raiser
1922: Captain Fulford and the Boksburg Incident
Terry Willson
Johannesburg June 2013 - main lecture
Dr Jim and the Matabele War of 1893 [WW II]
Chris Ash
Jo'burg May 2013 - curtain raiser
The Battle of Taranto [WW II]
Colin Harris
Johannesburg May 2013 - main lecture
SMS Konigsberg [1915]
Pierre du Toit
Johannesburg April 2013 - main lecture
How Germany Lost the War in 1941
Ann Bourdin
Johannesburg Mar 2013 - curtain raiser
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry 16th October 1859
Robin Smith
Johannesburg Mar 2013 - main lecture
A paper of the American Civil War
J F Myburgh
Johannesburg Feb 2013 - main lecture
Kitchener of Khartoum
Dr Anne Samson
Johannesburg Nov 2012 - main lecture
A Century of Mud 1860-1960
Ann Bourdin
Johannesburg Sep 2010 - main lecture
The Battle of Pharsalis 48BC
Hamish Paterson
Johannesburg June 2010 - curtain raiser
Second Phase of the Second SA War of Independence.
Dr John Bleloch
Johannesburg Feb 2011 - main lecture
Alan Turing.
Nick Cowley
Johannesburg Jan 2011 - curtain raiser
El Wak or Bust!
Emile Coetzee
Johannesburg Oct 2010 - curtain raiser
Zulu Civil War 1883-88.
Ken Gillings
Johannesburg Oct 2010 - Main lecture
Adowa 1896
Col Jas Jacobs
Johannesburg Sep 2010 - curtain raiser
Italian POWs in WWII
Emilio Coccia
Jo'burg May 2010 - curtain raiser
Leonardo's War Machines
Alan Mantle
Johannesburg Feb 2010 - main lecture
World War One
Paul Kilmartin
Johannesburg Nov 2009 - main lecture
Thermopylae & Salamis 480 BC
Ann Bourdin
Johannesburg Sep 2009 - curtain raiser
The Royal Marines by Land by Sea
John S Murray
Johannesburg Oct 2008 - main lecture
The Aftermath of the Anglo Boer War
Ken Gillings
Johannesburg July 2008 - main lecture
Four Exceptional Women of the Boer War
Felicia Fourie
Johannesburg July 2008 - curtain raiser
The Suez Canal 1956
Alan Mantle
Johannesburg June 2008 - main lecture
Shiloh - the emergence of Grant
Robin Smith
Johannesburg Mar 2008 - main lecture
The Basuto Wars 1820-1881
Col James Jacobs
Johannesburg Dec 2007 - main lecture
Captain Robert Nairac GC
John S Murray
Johannesburg Dec 2007 curtain-raiser
The Battle of the River Plate
Roslyn Peter
Johannesburg Nov 2007 curtain-raiser
1066 - a year that changed England forever
Martin Ayres
Johannesburg Oct 2007 - curtain-raiser
Edward Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria
John Cramp
Johannesburg Sep 2007 curtain-raiser
The "San Boats" - Eagle Oil at War
Ivor Little
Johannesburg Aug 2007 curtain-raiser
Seven Battles that shaped SA
David Williams
Johannesburg Mar 2007 curtain-raiser
The Natal Volunteers
Terry Willson
Johannesburg Dec 2006 curtain-raiser
Some Arctic activities: Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kellett
John Parkinson
Johannesburg Sep 2006 curtain-raiser
Oranje Vrijstaat Artillerie Corps
M C Heunis
Johannesburg Aug 2006 curtain-raiser
From wooden walls to Dreadnoughts: gun, armour, ram or torpedo?
Captain Ivor Little
Johannesburg Aug 2006
Henry V and Joan of Arc
Martin Ayres
Johannesburg July 2006
POW camps in the UK in WWII
Colin Dean
Johannesburg June 2006
Bridge on River Kwai
Bob Smith
Johannesburg May 2006
From Normandy to Eagle's Nest
Charles Whiteing
KZN 2006
Antietam - the civil war's bloodiest day
Robin Smith
Johannesburg Mar 2006
Italian participation in the Anglo-Boer War
Mario Lupini
Johannesburg Feb 2006 - main lecture
Three Battles of Gaza 1917
Avram Pelunsky
Johannesburg Feb 2006 - curtain raiser
Flying Bombs
Colin Dean
Johannesburg Dec 2005

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