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‘Stephen Badsey, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and
the media…’ Gary Sheffield, Forgotten Victory (2001) |
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Professor
Stephen Badsey
PhD MA(Cantab.) FRHistS Military Historian
‘If
you know your history, then you know where you’re coming from.’ Bob Marley, Buffalo Soldier |
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Talks and Lectures  Internationally
recognised specialist on modern military-media issues and debates.
Keynote speaker, ‘Remembering the
Desert War...’, Conference on El
Alamein: 75 Years On – The War in the Mediterranean and the Campaign for
North Africa 1942, University of Wolverhampton, September
2017. Speaker, ‘The Will to Win:
British Strategy, Propaganda and Public Opinion 1940-1942’ The Second
World War Research Group Workshop, 1940 to 1942: The Fulcrum of the
Twentieth Century? Kings College London Defence Studies Department at
the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, June
2016. Invited speaker, ‘The
Consequences of the Military Failures of 1915’, The Gallipoli Association
Gallipoli Centenary Conference,
London, September 2015. Invited speaker, ‘Scotland in
British Propaganda’, Western Front Association Conference Scotland in the Great War,
September 2015. Invited
Keynote Speaker at concluding Public Lecture for the International
Conference on Alternate Spaces of
War 1914 to the Present,
University of Plymouth, July 2015. Invited
seminar speaker, ‘The German Corpse Factory and British Propaganda in the
First World War,’ to the Graduate Research Seminar of the History
Department of the University of Kent, February 2015. ‘Propaganda,’
Symposium on The First World War:
Perspectives of the Home Front, Royal United Services Institute,
London, November 2014. Keynote
Speaker, ‘A Hundred Years On: Recent and Changing Views on the History of
the First World War,’ Der Erste
Weltkrieg in der deutschen und britischen Erinnerungskultur / The First World War in British
and German Cultures of Remembrance, 33rd Annual Conference of the
Prinz-Albert-Gesellschaft E.V. / The Prince Albert Society, Coburg,
Germany, September 2014. ‘Remembrance
and False Memory: what everyone knows about the war,’ Western
Front Association, President’s Conference, Birmingham August 2014, on You
Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGow3CLalo ‘Atrocities
and Propaganda: The German Invasion of Belgium and the British Response,’
Conference on The First World War
in Retrospect, Weetwood Hall, Leeds, July
2014. ‘Communications,
Propaganda and the Media,’ Research Workshop: The Return of the Great
Powers? Leeds University, July 2014. Public
Lecture ‘British
Official Documentaries and Newsreels of the First World War,’ University
of Wolverhampton Film, Media, Discourse and Culture Research Seminar
Series, Wolverhampton University, May 2014. Discussion
Panellist, ‘The Complete Blackadder Goes Forth Debate,’ Bristol Festival of Ideas,
Watershed, Bristol, May 2014. 'Strategy and
Propaganda: Lord Kitchener, the Amiens Despatch, and the Battle of
Mons, August-September 1914,' Symposium in Honour of David Welch:
Propaganda and the Shaping of the 20th Century, at the University of
Kent, May 2014. Public
Lecture, ‘Kitchener Needs You! British Propaganda and Recruiting at the
Start of the First World War,’ Museum of Cannock Chase, February
2014. ‘Remembrance
and False memories: What Everyone Knows About the War,’ One-day conference
on Interpretations
and Remembrance: The challenges of the World War I Centenary,
National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, September 2013.
Keynote
Speaker, ‘Military History – into the 21st Century,’ at the symposium on
New Research in Military
History, University of Birmingham, November 2012. Speaker,
‘First World War Films,’ Walks and Talks Series, Limelight Cinema, The
Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, May
2012. Keynote
Speaker, ‘The Transformation of First World War History,’ 24th IAMHIST
Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, July
2011. Speaker,
'Guns and
Individuality: Infantry Tactics and Battlefield Heroism 1850-1950' at the
conference on Guns and Identity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries, University of Kent, May 2011. Invited
Speaker, ‘The Best Use of the Airborne? Normandy 6-12 June 1944,’ US Army
Airborne and Special Forces Museum Fayetteville (Fort Bragg) USA, May
2010. Speaker,
‘The British Army and the First World War 1914-1918’ as part of the
University of Wolverhampton panel on ‘The British
Army: Winning the Wars and Losing the History 1899-1945’ at the Society for Military History 77th
Annual Meeting ‘Causes Lost and Won,’ Virginia Military Institute USA,
May 2010. Invited
Speaker, ‘Tactics, Myths and Mistakes,’ 110th
Anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War International History Conference,
Platrand Lodge, Ladysmith, South Africa, January 2010. Speaker,
Inaugural Research Symposium, School of Law, Social Sciences and
Communications, University of Wolverhampton, July 2009.
Speaker,
Symposium on Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, Falstad Memorial and
Human Rights Centre, Trondheim, Norway, June
2009 'The Last Forgotten Victory' Conference on 1918 - The Genesis of Modern Warfare: The Birth of the Royal Air Force and the Hundred Days Campaign, University of Birmingham, September 2008. 'High Command: Authority and Power in the BEF in 1916,' Conference The Battle of the Somme - 90 Years On, University of Kent, July 2006. Keynote Speaker, 'As Others See Us: The Historical Image of Canada and Its Forces,' 17th Military History Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, Canada, May 2006. 'Media War and Public Opinion in 2006,' Tri-Service Conference, Public Opinion, The Media and Defence, Madingley Hall, Cambridge University, April 2006. 'Filming the War: The Contemporary Film Record,' Conference The First World War 1914-1918, Rewley House, Oxford University, March 2006. Media Study Day, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) Headquarters, Reindalen, Germany, December 2005. 'Public History,' Conference The Future of the First World War, Queen Mary College, London, June 2005. 'The Battlefield of Normandy 1944,' South African Military History Society, University of Natal, January 2005. 'The Role of the Professional Historian,' Conference It May Be History, But Is It True? IAMHist / BUFVC, Imperial War Museum, London, October 2004. ‘The Battlefield and the Conduct of the Battle,' Conference D-Day: The 60th Anniversary , Christ Church, Oxford University, September 2004. ‘Living Pictures of the Dead,’ The 7th British
Silent Cinema Festival ‘Goodbye To All That: British Silent Cinema and
World War One,’ Broadway
Nottingham, April 2004. ‘New Roles for the Media,' Conference ‘Taking Stock of Civil-Military Relations,’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands, April 2001. Senior Officer’s Conference, The Media and the Armed Forces , Madingley Hall, Cambridge University, February 2001. 'The Military-Media Relationship since the Vietnam War,’ Staff Seminar, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, April 2000. 'Churchill, the Emergent Leader,' International Churchill Society 16th International Conference , Bath, June 2000. ‘How the War Was Lost: Germany and the Central Powers in 1918,’ Conference Every War Must End: 1918 , Kings College London, November 1998. Annual Airpower Symposium: Command and Control , Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy, Trondheim, Norway, February 1998. Conference Planning Large Scale Humanitarian Relief Operations US Army, Heidelberg, Germany, March 1995. NATO Conference on Multinationality , Koslas, Norway, October 1994.
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