Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 3rd March 2025

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: The Leverhulme Suite @ Bolton School Girls’ Division, Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4PA. Parking free in the Girls’ Division Quad.

Description: Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Aberystwyth, Martin attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, then read Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford, and completed a research DPhil. He taught at the Sorbonne, Southampton and Salford universities, and at the US Naval War College. His recent publications include a book on his 1960s LRGS Headmaster John L. Spencer -- signals officer of 2nd Battalion, the Essex Regiment in Normandy in 1944, the project entailing a study tour of the beaches, bocage country and the villages near Bayeux and Caen where men and women of courage and spirit decided the destiny of modern Western Europe.

Price: £5 non members

Tel: 07912369060

Email: mwright@boltonschool.org.uk

Website: https://www.boltonhistoricalassociation.wordpress.com

Organiser: Melissa Wright

Lecturer: Emeritus Professor Martin Alexander International Relations, Aberystwyth

Region: North-West England

Branch: Bolton