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From: Imperial War Museum <[email protected]> Subject: The Churchill Lecture Series 2009 - 2010 To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 25 September, 2009, 1:11 PM Sent by: Imperial War Museum Reply to the sender Mark Seaman - Behind the Lines: SIS operations in Occupied Europe during the Second World War Christopher Andrew - MI5 and SIS during the Second World War Mark Seaman - The Venlo Incident - a new perspective Dr Christopher Baxter - Uninvited and Unwelcome Guests: Spies and British Professor Gary Sheffield- Fighting for Churchill? Dr Nigel Steel - With Winston Churchill at the Front WIN a DVD boxed set of Churchill's Bodyguard and The World at War Friends of the Imperial War Museum For further details of events at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms please visit our website. October 2009 marks the centenary of the modern British Intelligence Community and the founding of the Secret Intelligence Service (sometimes known as MI6) and the Security Service, MI5. The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms are priviledged to present as part of the 2009-2010 Churchill Lecture Series, a selection of lectures presented by some of the leading historians in the field of intelligence and based in part upon closed records, offering a fascinating insight into the wartime contribution of SIS. Mark Seaman - Behind the Lines: SIS operations in Occupied Europe during the Second World War 6 October 2009 6.30pm - 9.00pm Following the German occupation of most of Western Europe in 1940, SIS steadily developed a range of intelligence networks that stretched from the North Cape to the Pyrenees. How was this achieved and what effect had the secret agents' reports upon the final Allied victory? Click here for more information and to book Christopher Andrew - MI5 and SIS during the Second World War 27 October 2009 6.30pm - 9.00pm Professor Christopher Andrew lectures on the turbulent relationship between MI5 and the SIS during the Second World War. Click here for more information and to book Mark Seaman - The Venlo Incident - a new perspective 10th November 2009 6.30pm to 9.00pm In November 1939 two SIS officers were kidnapped by Nazi intelligence officers on the Dutch/German border, this lecture will provide new insights into the political and intelligence aspects of this remarkable story. Click here for more information and to book Dr Christopher Baxter - Uninvited and Unwelcome Guests: Spies and British 24 November 2009 6.30pm - 9.00pm Almost from its inception, SIS enjoyed a frequently problematic relationship with the diplomats of the Foreign Office. The Second World War brought even greater challenges with the need to reconcile operational intelligence requirements with the maintenance of diplomatic protocols. Click here for more information and to book Professor Gary Sheffield- Fighting for Churchill? 17 March 2010 6.30pm - 9pm In this lecture Professor Sheffield turns his attention to the Second World War, examining the impact of combat on the ordinary soldier and analysing their motivation for fighting. In the process he highlights the true, often misunderstood costs of war on the individual. Click here for more information and to book Dr Nigel Steel - With Winston Churchill at the Front 23 March 2010 6.30pm - 9pm >From November 1915 to May 1916, Churchill served in the trenches of France and >Belgium, enduring danger and hardship alongside the men he commanded. This >talk will take a detailed look at his time 'at the front' and show how >Churchill proved to be a very able, if unusual, leader of men, rebuilding >their morale after the losses they had suffered some weeks before. Click here for more information and to book WIN a DVD boxed set of Churchill's Bodyguard and The World at War Win a DVD boxed set of Churchill's Bodyguard and The World at War courtesy of Fremantle Home Entertainment. We are giving away three boxed set DVD collections of Churchill's Bodyguard narrated by Robert Powell and featuring the voice of Dennis Waterman. After the war Walter Thompson's censored book told just part of the story. His full memoirs were suppressed even by Churchill himself - only now can we recount the number of assassination attempts on Churchill's life. We are also giving away three boxed sets of the BAFTA Award Winning The World at War Click here for your chance to win. Click here to explore our range of titles for sale at our online shop Friends of the Imperial War Museum Support the Imperial War Museum and enjoy FREE admission. As a Friend of the Imperial War Museum you can enjoy many exclusive privileges including free, unlimited entry to HMS Belfast, Imperial War Museum Duxford and the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms and unlimited entry to special temporary exhibitions at Imperial War Museum London. To enquire about membership please call 020 7416 5255 or email [email protected] For further information click here. We look forward to seeing you soon.The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms are open daily 9.30am - 6pm (last admission 5pm) Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms Clive Steps, King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AQ Telephone: 020 7930 6961 Website: http://www.iwm.org.uk/cabinetThe Imperial War Museum is a charity. To find out how you can support us please click here The Churchill Museum, winner of the 2006 Council of Europe Museum Award This e-mail was sent from Imperial War Museum Immediate removal with PatronMail® SecureUnsubscribe. 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