Past Events
List of Events
- 2009 Events-2009.pdf
- 2007 Events-2007.pdf
- 2006 Events-2006.pdf
- 2005 Events-2005.pdf
- 2004 Events-2004.pdf
- 2003 Events-2003.pdf
- 2002 Events-2002.pdf
2012
★ Discussion meeting “War in the Wilderness, Chindits in Burma”
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Speaker: Tony Redding
Summary report: see March 2012 newsletter
2010
★ Anglo-Japanese International Symposium “Human Development,
Restoration and Social Development since WWII”
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Location: St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Summary report: see March 2010 newsletter
2009
★ Discussion Meeting: “The Japanese Soldier”
Thursday, 29 November 2009
Speaker:
Masao Hirakubo, Hon OBE, veteran of the Burma War and Chairman of BCS
Anglo-Japanese Symposium “Human Development, Restoration and Social Development since WWII” (COMMEMORATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, and of RECONCILIATION AFTER WORLD WAR)
Friday, 17th October, 11:00 AM -5:00 PM
Summary report: see March 2010 newsletter
Photos: see Album
- 2009 Symposium-2009.pdf
- 2009 Events-2009.pdf
2008
★ Discussion Meeting: “THE POST-WAR RECOVERY OF JAPAN AND ITS FUTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 6-8pm
Speaker: Dr Keiichiro Komatsu
Summary report: see September 2008 newsletter
Please note that Dr Komatsu is a former banker (at the semi-governmental Central Co-operative Bank for Commerce and Industry in Tokyo and NY) and a development specialist (at the World Bank), but not at the Development Bank of Japan as stated in the original newsletter. Dr Komatsu was awarded a doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
2007
★ Discussion Meeting: “MEMORIES OF THE BURMA CAMPAIGN”
Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 6 –8pm
Speakers:
Maurice Franses, 2 British Division
Philip Malins MBE MC, 20 Indian Division
Masao Hirakubo, Hon OBE, 31 Japanese Division
Summary report: see September 2007 Newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “PRISONER OF THE JAPANESE”
Thursday 22 March 2007, 6 –8pm
Speakers: George Housego MBE
Summary report: see September 2007 Newsletter
- 2007 Memories-of-Burma-discussion-meeting-July-2007.pdf
- 2007 Events-2007.pdf
- 2007 George-Housego-discussion-meeting-March-2007.pdf
2006
★ Discussion Meeting: “How Japanese and British Veterans, and Soldiers of Former Colonies, Remember the War Dead in Reunions which Commemorate the War: An Oral History Research Case Study”
Monday 13 March 2006, 6 –8pm
Speakers: Tomoyo Nakao, Associate Professor, Okayama University
Flyer: see Nakao-Tomoyo-discussion-meeting-March-2006.pdf
★ Discussion Meeting:
Wednesday 17 May 2006
Speakers: Major Terence Molloy MC, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, a BCS member and author of the newly published
Silchar Track
Summary report: see September 2006 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “Bill Slim: The Very Model of a Modern Manoeuvrist General”
Thursday 30 November 2006, 6 –8pm
Speakers: Robert Lyman, author of Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare
Summary report: see March 2007 newsletter
- 2006 Events-2006.pdf
- 2006 Nakao-Tomoyo-discussion-meeting-March-2006.pdf
- 2006 Robert-Lyman-discussion-meeting-November-2006.pdf
2005
★ Symposium “ENEMY & FRIEND BRITAIN AND JAPAN AT WAR AND PEACE”
Wednesday 3 September 2005
Location: The Cabinet War Rooms, London
Seminar Paper: 60th_Anniversary_Papers.pdf
Summary report: see March 2006 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “FILMING THE WAR IN BURMA”
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 6 –8pm
Speaker: Frank Worth
Summary report: see September 2005 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “YOUNG MEN AT WAR; WITH GURKHAS IN BURMA”
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 6 –8pm
Speaker: Jimmy Evans
Summary report: see March 2006 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “THE USE OF MULES IN THE BURMA WAR”
Thursday 12 May 2005, 6 –8pm
Speaker: Philip Malins MBE MC
- 2005 60th_Anniversary_Papers.pdf
- 2005 Events-2005.pdf
- 2005 Frank-Worth-discussion-meeting.pdf
- 2005 Jimmy-Evans-discussion-meeting-November-2005.pdf
- 2005 Philip-Malins-discussion-meeting-May-2005.pdf
2004
★ A Discussion Meeting: “Burma, The Japanese Invasion in Historical Context”
Monday 15 March 2004
Speaker: John McEnery
Summary report: see September 2004 newsletter
★ A Discussion Meeting: “Kelly’s Burma Campaign: Letters from the Chin Hills,
Thursday 8 July 2004
Speaker: Dr Desmond Kelly
Summary report: see September 2004 newsletter
★ A Discussion Meeting: “The Chinese Contribution to Victory over Japan in the Pacific”
Monday 11 October 2004, 6.00 – 8.00 pm
Speaker: Dr. David Steeds
- 2004 Events-2004.pdf
2003
★ Discussion Meeting: “Britain’s Grand Strategy for War Against Japan”
12 March 2003
Speaker: Dr Saki Dockrill of the Department of War Studies, Kings College, London”
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “Java as a Japanese Surrendered Personnel”
12 May 2003
Speaker: Sadao Oba
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter
★ Discussion Meeting: “THE JAPAN RED CROSS BEFORE AND DURING THE
SECOND WORLD WAR”
Monday 21 July 2003, 4–6pm
Speaker: Nobuko Kosuge, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Yamanashi Gakuin University
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter
- 2003 Nobuko-Kosuge-discussion-Meeting-July-2003.pdf
- 2003 Dr-Saki-Docrill-discussion-Meeting-March-2003.pdf
- 2003 Battle-of-Kohima-discussion-Meeting-2003.pdf
- 2003 Events-2003.pdf
2002
- 2002 Events-2002.pdf
- 2002 Rememberance-Day-at-Three-Wheels-17-Aug-2002-1.pdf
- 2002 Rememberance-Day-at-Three-Wheels-17-Aug-2002-2.pdf
Flyer
- 2009 Symposium-2009.pdf
- 2007 Memories-of-Burma-discussion-meeting-July-2007.pdf
- 2007 George-Housego-discussion-meeting-March-2007.pdf
- 2006 Robert-Lyman-discussion-meeting-November-2006.pdf
- 2005 Frank-Worth-discussion-meeting.pdf
- 2005 Jimmy-Evans-discussion-meeting-November-2005.pdf
- 2003 Nobuko-Kosuge-discussion-Meeting-July-2003.pdf
