Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025

The 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 to confirmation, the Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025 will be held on the afternoon of Saturday 1 November 2025 at National Army Museum, London.  Remote participation/access will be available.

The speaker will be Dr Ismini Pells of the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and a noted specialist on the British Civil Wars.  The subject of her lecture is Atrocity, Justice and Reconciliation in the English Civil War.