TOPIC: Preparation for D-Day – the build up and training in conversation with Crispin Thomas - The Standup Historian.
WHEN: Saturday 5th September @ 11am

TOPIC: D-Day June 6th – the first few hours
WHEN: Sunday 6th September 2026 @ 11am

Dr Peter Caddick-Adams will be joining the line up as a Guest Speaker in our History Tent.

Peter has spent 20 years as a lecturer at Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Oxford and Cranfield Universities & latterly The UK Defence Academy. He has lectured in 58 countries from Africa, Gulf, Europe, US, Indonesia and Australia, to students from 73 nations at defence colleges & academies worldwide.

As well as this, he has spent 35 years as a reservist army officer (Major, in-theatre media spokesman & official historian on operations in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan), NATO historian in Bosnia 1996-7, UK Historian in Iraq (working with US & Australian forces).

Peter has written nine books, plus numerous chapters, forewords & articles, to his name on WW1, WW2 and global modern warfare.

He regularly wrties for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and has appeared on BBC and GB News TV, The Critic & Engelsberg Ideas, plus war reporting from numerous visits to Ukraine.

Territorial Decoration (TD),
FRHS (Fellow Royal Historical Society)
FRGS (Fellow Royal Geographical Society)

Dr Peter Caddick Adams’ talk on Saturday 5th September will focus on the Preparation for D-Day – the build up and training. On Sunday 6th September, Peter will talk about the first few hours of D-Day – 6th June.