Wednesday Luncheon #5061 with Professor Robin Prior

This week lunch meeting will be held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the... Adelaide Oval Ian McLachlan Room, L3 Western Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide

Web booking closes Monday August 4 12 noon!

Payment on the day at the Welcome Desk by Card only. 

Includes Main Course, shared Cheese platter and Tea/Coffee, good company, great speaker and all done by 2pm!

 Guest Speaker Professor Robin Prior

80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II

Join us as we mark the 80th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6^th and 9^th of August 1945, significant events that led to the conclusion of World War II.

Our guest speaker is Emeritus Prof Robin Prior, one of Australia’s greatest war time historians. Prior’s interstate colleagues describe him as an historian of “international significance”.

Joining live online from Hiroshima will be members of our club visiting for the global peace commemorations.  

Robin was born in rural South Australia and has been a farmer, shopkeeper, librarian and an academic. He was educated at Kapunda High School and at the University of Adelaide where he obtained a degree in 1972, an honours degree in 1974 and a PhD in 1979 (all in Arts/History).

Robin was a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide from 1979 to 1982 and an Australian Research Council fellow from 1983 to 1985.  In 1986, Robin took up a position as lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He was promoted to Professor and Head of the School of History in 1998.  He was appointed the inaugural Head of the School of Humanities in 2005

Robin has written five books on the First World War, edited the Oxford Companion to Australian Military History and more recently a book on Britain in 1940 (When Britain Saved the West). His latest book is Conquer We Must, a history of Britain in two world wars. He is currently working on a new history of the Normandy Campaign 1944.

Don't forget to give to the Virtual Community Bowl this week by clicking on...  Community Projects Appeal

Please note the venue - Ian McLachlan Room, Adelaide Oval, L3 Western Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide