Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 11th December 2025

Time: 2:45pm **PLEASE NOTE EARLIER START TIME* **PLEASE NOTE EARLIER START TIME*

Venue: Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG

Description: Contrary to popular assumption, after retiring as Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Lord Mountbatten had a close working relationship with the Wilson Government, on issues ranging from Rhodesia’s UDI to prison security. The 1970s saw Mountbatten still close to the Royal Family and travelling widely; while aggressively defending a version of events in which every decision he ever made was right, not least the 1942 Dieppe raid and the partition of India. Adrian Smith, Mountbatten’s biographer, explores a crowded retirement and a post-assassination afterlife in which controversy scarcely abated.

Price: Associate membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £3.

Tel: 07988 171 708

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Website: https://www.facebook.com/HistoricalAssociationIW

Organiser: All enquiries to Caroline Jacobs

Region: South-East England

Branch: Isle of Wight