Subjects
  • 1066 and all that - 950th anniversary of coronation of King Harold, (2016)
  • 17th Century men of science
  • A guided tour of historic Rochester 'Bloody' Mary Tudor's 500th birthday (1516-2016)
  • Charles Darwin - his life and voyages and his 'Origin of Species'
  • Charlotte Bronte's 200th birthday (1816-2016)
  • Christmas in the Middle-ages
  • Edith Cavell WW1 spy? (executed October 1915)
  • Everyday life in medieval London
  • Henry VIII and the reformation
  • Isaac Newton
  • King John's siege of Rochester Castle and the Baron's War 1215
  • Magna Carta 1215-2015, 800 year anniversary Medieval Food - (with a selection of cookable recipes)
  • Medieval Gravesend
  • Medieval housewives (subject of my first book)
  • Medieval merchants & men of trade
  • Murder most foul crime and punishment & the Victorian police force
  • Mrs Beeton's Victorian Christmas (another of my books)
  • Mrs Beeton's Summer picnics (with a selection of cookable recipes)
  • Mysteries of Medieval and Tudor medicine - (the subject of my latest book)
  • Ration-book Britain - how we lived in the 40s & 50s
  • Restoration Rochester (featuring the Dutch raids on the Medway)
  • Richard III - King of controversy re-buried in 2015
  • The anniversary of Pocahontas
  • The apothecary's garden
  • They dared to be doctors - the fascinating story of the first Victorian ladies to succeed in a man's world Tudor and Stuart dining
  • Votes for women - the struggle for women's rights and the Suffrage movement
Description

For an additional fee, the speaker can give the talks in appropriate medieval, Victorian or 1950s costume.

Address
40 Kitchener Avenue
Gravesend
Kent
DA12 5HZ
Phone

01474 355 676

Email
Fee
£85 plus 25p per mile to venues over 10 miles from Gravesend