| Year | Lecturer | Topic | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Dr Nicholas Rodger FBA (All Souls Oxford) | The Culture of Naval War 1850-1950 | Listen Online: |
| 2016 | James Howard-Johnston | The Byzantine Art of War | |
| 2014 | Ahmed Rashid | Games Great and Small: Afghanistan in the Modern World | |
| 2012 | Amir Weiner | Total War: The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front in a Comparative Framework | |
| 2010 | Mr Andrew Roberts | British policy and the armed forces in the Second World War. | |
| 2008 | Peter Paret | 1806: The Cognitive Challenge of War | |
| 2006 | Ben Shephard | What Makes a Soldier? And What Does Not? | |
| 2004 | David Parrott | War, Armies, and Politics in Early Modern Europe: The Military Devolution, 1560-1660 | |
| 2002 | Antony Beevor | The experience of war | |
| 2000 | Prof Brian Bond | Britain and the First World War: The challenge to historians | |
| 1998 | Prof Keith Jeffery | ‘For the freedom of small nations’: Ireland and the Great War | |
| 1996 | Field-Marshal Sir Peter Inge | Military force in a changing world | |
| 1995 | Prof Hew Strachan | The politics of the British Army 1815-1914 | |
| 1992 | Prof William McNeill | Dance, drill and bonding in human affairs | |
| 1990 | Maurice Keen | English military experience c.1340- c. 1450 | |
| 1989 | Dr Alan Bowman | Vindolanda and the Roman Army: New documents from the northern frontier | |
| 1986 | John D. Keegan | Some fallacies of military history | |
| 1984 | Dr. Geoffrey Parker | The Military Revolution | |
| 1983 | Alistair Horne | The French army and politics 1870-1970 | |
| 1981 | Prof. L.W. Martin | Evolution of nuclear strategic doctrine since 1945 | |
| 1979 | F-M Lord Carver | Apostles of mobility | |
| 1977 | Prof. Christopher Thorne | Anglo-American relations and war against Japan 1941-45 | |
| 1975 | Dr. R.L. Clutterbuck | Guerilla warfare and political violence | |
| 1974 | Prof. Herman Bondi | Science and defence | |
| 1974 | D. Cameron Watt | European armed forces and the approach of the 2nd World War 1933-39 | |
| 1973 | Prof. Piers G. Mackesy | Problems of an amphibious power 1795-1808 | |
| 1972 | Prof. John Erickson | Soviet soldiers and Soviet society | |
| 1971 | Prof. F.Harry Hinsley | War and the development of the international system | |
| 1970 | Prof. Geoffrey F.A. Best | Conscience and the conduct of war, from the French Revolution through the Franco-Prussian war | |
| 1969 | Alastair Buchan | The changing functions of military force in international politics | |
| 1968 | Prof. R.V. Jones | Command | |
| 1966 | Prof Michael Howard | Conduct of British strategy in the 2nd World War | |
| 1965 | Sir Solly Zuckerman | Science and military affairs | |
| 1963 | Dr A. Noble Frankland | The strategic air offensive | |
| 1962 | Lt. Gen. Sir John W. Hackett | The profession of arms | |
| 1961 | Firld Marshal Lord Slim | The military mind and The spirit of an army | |
| 1960 | Capt. Steven W. Roskill | Maritime strategy in the twentieth century | |
| 1958 | Sir Leslie Rowan | Arms and economics: the changing challenge | |
| 1958 | Field Marshal Lord Harding | Mediterranean strategy in the 2nd World War | |
| 1957 | J.P.W. Ehrman | Cabinet government and war, 1890-1940 | |
| 1956 | Prof. P.M.S. Blackett | Atomic weapons 1945-1955 | |
| 1954 | Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks | Are we training for the last war? | |
| 1953 | Sir Fitzroy Maclean | Irregular warfare | |
| 1952 | Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill | Some human factors in war | |
| 1951 | Capt. G.H. Roberts RN | The battles of the Atlantic | |
| 1951 | Gen. Sir William Platt | The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940-1 | |
| 1950 | Sir Henry Tizard | The influence of war on science | |
| 1949 | Sir Ronald Weeks | Organisation and equipment for war | |
| 1948 | Adml. Sir William James | The influence of sea power upon the history of the British people | |
| 1947 | Air-Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder | Air power in modern warfare | |
| 1946 | Col. A.H. Burne | Military strategy as exemplified in World War II | |
| 1942 | Maj. Gen. Sir George Lindsay | War on the civil and military fronts | |
| 1941 | Capt. Cyril Falls | The nature of modern warfare | |
| 1940 | Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice | Public opinion in war | |
| 1939 | Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell | Generalship | |
| 1937 | Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside | British military history from 1899 to the present | |
| 1936 | C.R.M.F. Cruttwell | The role of British strategy in the Great War | |
| 1934 | Air Com. L E O Charlton | Military aeronautics applied to modern warfare | |
| 1933 | John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) | Oliver Cromwell as a soldier | |
| 1932 | Capt. Basil H. Liddell Hart | The movement of military thought from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and its influence on European history | |
| 1931 | Adm. Sir Herbert W. Richmond | Capture at sea in war | |
| 1930 | W.W. Tarn | Hellenistic military developments | |
| 1929 | A.R. Hinks | Frontiers and boundary delimitations | |
| 1928 | Major Gen. Sir George Aston | Problems of empire defence | |
| 1927 | Major-Gen. Sir Wilkinson Bird | Some early crises of the war, and the events leading up to them: Western Front 1914 | |
| 1925 | Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice | Statesmen and soldiers in the American civil war | |
| 1924 | Lt.-Col. F. Nosworthy | Russia before, during and after the Great War | |
| 1924 | Col. M.A. Wingfield | The eight principles of war as exemplified in the Palestine campaign, 1915-1918 | |
| 1923 | Col. Maxwell Earle | The principles of war | |
| 1922 | Col. Maxwell Earle | The principle strategical problems affecting the British Empire | |
| 1915 | J.S. Corbett | The Great War after Trafalgar |
