Personal Professional Development
Events
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Guild Visit: Larkhill Royal Artillery Garrison, Wiltshire
The Venue Larkhill has been used as a training area for the British Army since the first tented camp was established in 1899. In 1914 the first wooden and permanent […]
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Guild Webinar “Choosing Your Battles.”
OnlineThe fourth in our series of Guild webinars will be delivered by Sue King, the Guild's Education Director. Battlefield Guides may have battles ‘thrust upon them’ by tour operators […]
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Guild Webinar “Understanding Evidence: Human Imperfection – Unintended Mistakes in Sources?””
OnlineThe nxt in our series of Guild webinars will be delivered by David Harvey, the Guild's Events Director. When we look at the types of sources available to battlefield guides, […]
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Richard Holmes Lecture 2024
Royal College of Defence Studies Seaford House, 37 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, LondonAir Control from the Sea: Tactical Air Command & Control during Operation Neptune The talk will examine the development of expeditionary air command and control (C2) in the European Theatre […]
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Guild Webinar “Understanding Evidence: Lies, Damned Lies ….. Deliberate Falsification in Sources.”
OnlineAnother in our series of Guild webinars will be delivered by Chris Finn, the Guild's Accreditation Director. Following on from David Harvey's webinar concerning unintended mistakes in sources, I will […]
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Guild Webinar “When Sources Are Limited and Downright Confusing! A Channel Islands’ Perspective”
OnlineThis, another in our series of Guild webinars, will be delivered by Marc Yates, the Guild's Governance Director. When faced with having to guide battlefields and describe events several hundred […]
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Guild Webinar: Does Size Matter – the Evolution of Firearms
OnlineAs battlefield guides, we invariably will take questions on the weapons of the era we are guiding and the impact they may or may not have had on the outcome […]
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Guild Visit Postponed: Larkhill Royal Artillery Garrison, Wiltshire
Postponed - Visit Date to be confirmed The Venue Larkhill has been used as a training area for the British Army since the first tented camp was established in 1899. […]
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Guild Webinar “A Research Journey”
OnlineChris Finn, the Accreditation Director, will be presenting the next in the Guild Webinar series, entitled A Research Journey. The subject will be researching the Korean War Battle of the […]
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Guild Webinar – An Introduction to Accreditation
OnlineAs we start a new Membership Year we have 18 active accreditation candidates and eight awaiting the successful completion of Assignment 1. Whilst those figures are identical to those of […]
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Guild Webinar – Guiding the Bomber War – 16 June 2025
OnlineUsing a walking tour of Dresden, Andy Johnson explains why and how the RAF Dresden raid took place, and he will discuss sources. This is an adaptation of Andy’s successful […]
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Guild Webinar – Hate From On-high: Air-delivered Weapons: a Bluffer’s Guide
OnlineContinuing our theme of the practical application of firepower, Jon Davy offers a pilot's-eye-view of weaponeering. He flew Jaguars and Typhoons in a 26-year RAF career, employing a wide variety […]
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Guild Webinar – Trowels and Trenches
OnlineArchaeology in the Great War – From Macedonia, Palestine, and the Dardanelles, through to the Roman Gallic wars, the troglodyte nature of the First World War frequently came into contact […]
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Guild Webinar: Marketing Yourself
ZoomThis is a webinar aimed at all members in that it will cover some of the basics of marketing. These include: Generally, how do people find you to employ you? […]
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Guild Webinar – Problems on Tour
OnlineI have been asked by a number of members to run a webinar on "Problems on Tour". So Chris Finn (Accreditation Director) and I will do that at 1930 on […]
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Guild Webinar – Tell Us How It Was
OnlineTo be on the site of a battle, with a knowledgeable and experienced guide can lead us to a profound understanding of the challenges faced by both sides in that […]
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Guild Webinar – Sailors’ Weapons – Naval Guns and Gunnery
OnlineFire from the sea has been around for ages (Edward III’s siege of Calais, anyone?) – and has gone under a number of titles; shore bombardment, naval gunfire support, naval […]
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Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025
National Army Museum Royal Hospital Rd, London, London, United KingdomThe Richard Holmes Lecture is given annually; sponsorship rotates between the Battlefields Trust, The British Commission for Military History and the Guild. This year’s sponsor is the Battlefields Trust. Subject […]
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Guild Webinar – Cold War Tankie
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Alan Wood, will take place on Wednesday 9th December commencing at 1930 (UK time). On the 24th February 2022 hundreds of […]
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The Stay Behinds
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Bob Shaw, will take place on Monday 5 January, commencing at 1900 (UK time). During 1940, when a potential German invasion […]
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A Tour on the Open Wave
ZoomOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Tim Stoneman, will take place on Monday 16 March, commencing at 1930 (UK time). The Guild’s Accreditation Manual states “Battles take […]
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Guild Recce – Easter Rising, Dublin April 1916
Dublin Dublin, IrelandIn France in 1916, plans were being drawn up to relieve the pressure on Verdun; in Dublin plans were being finalised for an insurrection. The Easter Rising would see ordinary […]
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SOE – date to be confirmed
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Bob Shaw, will take place in May - date to be confirmed. The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was created at Churchill's […]
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Artillery Systems That Changed Warfare – date to be confirmed
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Frank Baldwin, will take place in July 2027 - date to be confirmed. As Napoleon once said, "It is with Artillery […]
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Indirect Fire and Forward Observation – date to be confirmed
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Frank Baldwin, will take place in July 2027 - date to be confirmed. This talk covers the development of indirect fire […]
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Tanks – To the Somme and Beyond: the Anniversary of the First Use of Tanks
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by John Pratt, will take place on Saturday 26 September, commencing at 1930 (UK time). The tank was first used in battle […]
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Guild Webinar – Radar Basics (date to be confirmed)
OnlineHave you ever been asked tricky questions about radar and wished you'd known a bit more about the basics? Do you want to learn more about a technology that's been a critical part […]
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Smarter Guiding: How AI Can Enhance Your Research, Narratives, and Guest Experience – date to be confirmed
OnlineOne of the series of Guild webinars, given by Joris Nieuwint, will take place in November 2026, date to be confirmed. AI isn’t just for tech experts, it’s becoming an […]