BIHT Zoom Lecture: Tuesday 20 January 2026, 18:30-20:00 GMT
Valerie Haye, of the British in India Historical Trust, has sent the following details of a zoom lecture being given on Tuesday 20 January by Sir Mark Havelock-Allan:
Onward Christian Soldier
Sir Mark Havelock-Allan
Tuesday 20 January 2026, 18:30-20:00 GMT (ZOOM)
In mid-Victorian Britain, Major General Henry Havelock was the most celebrated military commander since Nelson and Wellington. His heroic march across northern India to relieve the beleaguered British garrisons at Cawnpore and Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny captured the public’s imagination like no other since Waterloo. Opposed by tens of thousands of mutinous sepoys, Havelock fought three battles to reach Cawnpore, and a further five before he fought his way into the British Residency at Lucknow, preventing its fall and the massacre of everyone in it.
Sir Mark Havelock-Allan KC is a retired judge. He is the great-great-grandson of General Henry Havelock and is President of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.
Lectures are broadcast via Zoom and are available UK-wide and to an international audience. Lectures are recorded and uploaded to YouTube for two weeks. Links are emailed to all ticket-holders.
Tickets for this lecture cost £5. Click here to book tickets (online, by post, or by bank transfer).
Valerie Haye, British in India Historical Trust
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