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Ordnance Society Conference 2024

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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.

9:15am to 5pm    

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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