Ordnance Society Conference 2024
Artillery post 1800: Targets, technology and tactics
This one-day conference is organised jointly with the Ordnance Society, to explore the history of artillery after 1800, including both its design and manufacture and its deployment and use.
Conference programme
The programme for the day is as follows:
- 9:15am
Registration and coffee - 9:45am
Changes in UK anti-aircraft artillery fuzes from the First to the Second World War
Speaker: Trevor John Parker - 10:30am
New findings at Fort Gilkicker
Speaker: Lewis Sharp - 11:30am
Tour of site and Royal Armouries collection - 12:30am
Lunch break - 1:15pm
The 18-pounder field gun and the Irish Civil War 1922 to 1923
Speaker: Robert Delaney - 2pm
Artillery logistics in the German Wars of Unification
Speaker: Colonel J Michael Phillips - 3pm
Development of heavy anti-aircraft systems
Speaker: Geoff Smith - 3:45 pm
What went wrong with the Armstrong Gun?
Speaker: Nicholas Hall - Formerly Keeper of Artillery, Fort Nelson - 4:30 pm
Final address - 5pm
Fort Nelson closes
Tickets
Tickets cost £9 and include booking fees, parking and light refreshments (not lunch, there is a café onsite).
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