27-28 OCTOBER 2022
Annual Baltic Military History Conference
Armed Resistance in the Baltic States during and after the Second World War
The Forest Brothers movement in the Baltic states is significant around the world in the context of the resistance operating concept. The aim of the conference is to summarize the history of the armed resistance in the Baltic States – the Forest Brothers – from both an historical and a military perspective.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black (b. 1955), a Senior Fellow, is professor of history at Exeter University. He studied at Queens’ College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer in 1980. There he gained his PhD and ultimately his professorship in 1994. Black is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history. But he has also broadened his perspective, both temporally and geographically, and published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself. Jeremy’s work adds up to the most sustained presentation of British history in recent decades. He is a major exponent of military, diplomatic and cartographic history and has been important in helping the British to look at their past, as well as in representing British history to foreign audiences.
