HISTORY HUDDLE

At FHCAM Saturday 11th July at 2pm 

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Battle of Normandy.

The 6th of June 2026 marked 82 years since D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe. Within 100 days of D-Day a staggering, 2.5 million men, half a million vehicles and 4 million tons of equipment had been unloaded in France. 

But the famous events of D-Day itself were just the beginning of a week's long hard campaign, the Battle of Normandy, that not only culminated with the liberation of Paris on August 25th, 1944, but also paved the way for the defeat of Nazi Germany. 

Join me to hear about my top 10 favorite facts, key turning points and stories you (probably), should know about the Battle of Normandy; or what happened after D-Day! 

At FHCAM Saturday 15th August at 2pm 

OPERATION CROSSBOW

The Girl with X-Ray Eyes: Hunting Hitler's Secret Weapons

At 12:35 a.m. on 18 August 1943, Allied bombers struck Peenemünde on Germany's Baltic coast. The raid was the culmination of one of the most remarkable intelligence successes of the Second World War.

This lecture explores the vital role of aerial photographic reconnaissance and the extraordinary work of photo interpreters who uncovered Germany's secret V-weapons programme. At the centre of the story is the remarkable Constance Babington-Smith, dubbed "The Girl with X-Ray Eyes", whose analysis of reconnaissance photographs led to the discovery of the V1 flying bomb and helped reveal the development of the V2 rocket.

Join us for the story of espionage, technology, intelligence, and the race to stop Hitler's vengeance weapons before they could change the course of the war.