DEFCON1? The current global and national geopolitical landscape
Friday, 25 September 2026
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Venue: Hereford Cathedral
Rory Naismith - Offa: King of the Mercians
Venue: College Hall
Seeking Truth in Conflict
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Leadership in Action
Venue: NMite Building, Blackfriars St
The Spanish Civil War
Mothers-in-War: How Women Shaped the Wars of the Roses
Venue: Green Dragon Ballroom
The MI5 Archive
Venue: St Peter’s Church
Robert Cowley - The Killing Season
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: St Peter ’s Church
Ash Winter - Travels through The Somme
Venue: Castle Green Pavilion
Helen Carr - Sceptered Isle
Adam Hart - Operation Pimento
Paul O’Keeffe - Trafalgar: Battle and Aftermath
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Iain MacGregor - Battle: the Conflicts that Changed the World
Roland Phillips - Broken Archangel
Frank Gardner - Ballistic
7:00pm – 8:00pm
Damien Lewis: SAS Great Escapes 5
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Mark Griffiths, Andrea Sartori - Philistine: A Professional Soldier in Africa
Saturday, 26 September 2026
11:00am – 12:00pm
Steve Crawshaw and Mark Nicol - Finding Justice in the Fog of War
Giles Milton - Empire at the Edge of the World
Churchill's Killing House: The Origins of World War II's Legendary Commando Fighting Force
The SAS - Past, Present and Future
Adrian Goldsworthy - Athens and Sparta / Andrew Bayliss - Sparta
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Dan Jones - Castles
Mindful Soldier: Building Resilience to Overcome Life's Challenges
The American War of Independence
Rivals in the Storm, How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government
Andrew Roberts - Napoleon & His Marshals
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
David Lascelles - Out of Colditz
Thomas Smith - The Fifth Crusade
Piers Blofeld - Master of Lies / Charles Cummings - Icarus 17
Waking the Warriors and a Childhood in Civil War
Krishna Thapa Magar - The Warrior Monk
Aaron Moon - One Leg. 2,517 Miles. NO REST DAYS
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Colin Bell - Bloody Dangerous: The 105 year life of a WWII Pilot
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Tim Spicer - An Axe and Four Balloons: Brian Franks, the man who saved the SAS
Chris Hunter - Bomb Disposal and Life on the Line
The Mad And The Brave: the untold story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Blood Money: Military Force in the creation and administration of the British Empire & the case for and against British Reparations today
The Burma Star Campaign
Epic Fury, the Impact and consequences of the war in Iran
Warrior Race? Are we a country which is ready to defend itself?
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Britain’s Regular Cavalry at War 1660-1920
Venue: Bishops Palace Hall
Professor Edmund Richardson: Alexander: God. King. Man.
Kieron Hawkes - Hawk K9
Patrick Baty - The Regimental Identity: Insignia and Traditions
Fallout: The Women of Greenham Common
Enemy of the State and Full Stack Spies
Fergal Keane - The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD
The Royal Hospital Chelsea at War
The General's Table: The Economics of Britain's Defence and Security
2:30pm – 3:30pm
5 Soldiers Film & Conversation
2:30pm – 4:20pm
Venue: Courtyard Theatre
Charlie English - The CIA Book Club
From the Stirrup to the Drone: Warfare as an agent of technological progress
Voices of Service
5:30pm Start
Dinner with Nicholas Soames - Lord Soames of Fletching
6:00pm – Until Close
Venue: Green Dragon Restaurant
