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<div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The Landscapes of the </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><strong>Battle of the Somme</strong></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><strong><span>Professor William Philpott<br></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span><strong><span>A lecture and sandwich lunch <br>12.30-2.00pm Monday 2 July 2012</span><br></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hosted by </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fusiliers</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Museum</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">London</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">in the </span></span></p>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Officer's Mess of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> HM </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tower</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> of </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">London</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">If you would like to attend this lunchtime talk, please make a donation of £25 for each attendee (£20 for members of the Battlefields Trust) and email your name, contact number and any special requirements (dietary/mobility) to <a href="mailto:helen@battlefieldstrust.org">helen@battlefieldstrust.org</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On receipt, email confirmation will be sent together with directions to the venue. If you have any questions, please ring 0207 387 6620. We look forward to welcoming you.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">William Philpott has been Professor of the History of Warfare in The Department of War Studies, King’s College London since 2011. His current research interests lie in the field of First World War military history at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">His book “Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Somme</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and the Making of the Twentieth Century" was published in 2009. He is currently writing a new study of the strategic and military conduct of the First World War, War of Attrition, to be published by Little, Brown in 2013.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please indicate if this is a gift aid donation as every donation helps!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
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