Annual lecture
The Society's annual lecture is given in London. The 2006 and 2007 lectures were given at Burlington House by kind permission of the Society of Antiquaries.
2008 lecture
This year's Annual Lecture will be given by the 2007 Anderson Medal winner, Brian Lavery, on 28 November at 5.30pm in the Royal Overseas League Club, Park Place off St. James Street, LOndon, SW1
2007 lecture
The Society's Annual Lecture for 2007 was given on 30 November 2007. Some 80 members and their guests were present. Professor Roger Knight gave a paper entitled 'Politics and Trust in victualling the Navy, 1793 - 1815'.
Professor Knight is one of Britain's foremost experts on naval history and is currently a Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich
2006 lecture
The 2006 lecture, Battleship or First Class Cruiser? HMS Dreadnought and the Limitations of Jackie Fisher's Radicalism was given by Dr Eric Grove, Senior Lecturer in Military History at the University of Salford.
Dr Grove is one of the leading naval experts in the world and frequently appears on television and radio as an authority on naval history and contemporary security matters.
HMS Dreadnought, which completed her trials in December 1906, is usually seen as the apotheosis of the battleship and the herald of the Anglo-German competition in such ships that led to war in 1914. The lecture questioned those assumptions and sought to explain the true intended context - and unintended consequences - of this epochal ship.