The sixth annual military history lecture series opens this week at the Guelph Civic Museum with a lecture by military historian Terry Copp.
Copp’s talk on “Dieppe Re-examined” starts at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, and it begins a series of monthly lectures offered in partnership with the Laurier Centre of Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in Waterloo.
“These lectures have been very popular in the past, and we expect they’ll be a big draw again this year,” said acting museum manager Bev Dietrich in a news release.
Other lectures in the series include a Nov. 15 talk by University of Waterloo historian Kirk Goodlet entitled “Caught in the Crossfire: The Destruction and Recovery of the Dutch Province of Zeeland, 1944-1947.”
Lectures will also be held in January, February and March and will wrap up April 18 with the annual Kingsmill Lecture on naval history.
This year’s Kingsmill Lecture will be delivered by Mike Bechthold, who will speak on “Raymond Collishaw and the Development of Naval Aviation in the 1930s,” the release said. All lectures are free and will be held at the Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St., at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.