Talks

Lectures and public speaking

John Hughes-Wilson is an accomplished and experienced speaker who is a leading expert on military intelligence history.

If you would like to book John to deliver a lecture, present a talk, take part in a pane-discussion seminar or give an after-dinner speech, please contact johnhugheswilson@yahoo.co.uk.

Presentations and talks

Here is an alphabetical list of the subjects John has spoken about in lectures, talks and presentations in the period 2006-2017:

  • AN AMERICAN COUP D’ETAT: WHO REALLY SHOT JFK?
  • ANIMALS IN WAR
  • BLINDFOLD AND ALONE: EXECUTIONS IN WORLD WAR I
  • CHURCHILL: GENIUS STATESMAN OR LUCKY POLITICIAN?
  • THE CURIOUS CASE OF RUDOLF HESS
  • CYPRUS AND THE CYPRUS PROBLEM: A BRIEF HISTORY
  • DEATH OF A GODDESS: PRINCESS DIANA
  • EUROPE’S DISASTROUS ‘CIVIL WAR’: THE GREAT WAR, 1914–19
  • THE GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA
  • GUNS, LIES AND SPIES: THATCHER, THE CIA & THE SUPERGUN
  • INTELLIGENCE MYSTERIES OF WORLD WAR II BLUNDERS
  • MYTHS OF WORLD WAR I
  • THE PUPPET MASTERS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE
  • THE REALITY AND POLITICS OF TERRORISM
  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS
  • THE SAD STORY OF CYPRUS
  • THE STRANGE LIFE AND STRANGER DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE
  • WHO KILLED DR KELLY, AND WHY? YOU ARE THE JURY
  • WHO MURDERED NAPOLEON?

Venues

Here is a selection of the organisations and locations where John has been invited to speak in the period 2006-2017:

  • 112 (Turkish Emergency Ambulance Service charity comparable to 999)
  • Anglo-Turkish Association
  • Aye Write Literary Festival. Glasgow
  • Guild of Battlefield Guides
  • International Napoleonic Society
  • National Army Museum
  • US university groups visiting Cyprus