Forthcoming:
24 May2012 Scraptoft 50 Group - The American Civil War - A British Perspective' 31 May 2012 Rutland Three Arts "Thomas Cook's 19th Century Competitors" 20 June 2012 Loughborough U3A "The Story of Maryland" 19 September 2012 Oadby & District Probus Club "A Golden Age of Travel - is it over?
20 September 2012 National Trust Supporters Group Sutton Coldfield "From the Wright Brothers to the Low-cost Airline" 08 April 2013 St Peter & St John Ladies Group Rugby "The History of the Package Holiday" 02 August 2013 Return visit to Melton Mowbray Probus Club - "From the Wright Brothers to the Low-cost Airline" Past lectures include: Apr 2012 'Recording Leisure Lives Conference' Bolton Town Hall / University of Bolton 'In town tonight - the 20th century town centre as a leisure space' Apr 2012 Tamworth Ancestral Rescue Club "The History of the Package Holiday"
Mar 2012 Ashby de la Zouch U3A 'A Golden Age of Travel - is it over?' Feb 2012 Stoney Stanton Heritage Group "From the Wright Brothers to the Low Cost Airline" Feb 2012 Fazeley (Tamworth) St Pauls - The Lure of the Sea - a history of the British seaside Feb 2012 Bulkington (Nuneaton) Ladies Club - The History of the Package Holiday Jan 2012 INTOUR (Institute of Tourism Research) University of Bedfordshire, Luton "The 1841 Myth - Thomas Cook's forgotten 19th century competitors" Jan 2012 Melton Mowbray Probus Club "The Future of the Town Centre - is there one?" Jan 2012 Husbands Bosworth Heritage Group "The History of the Package Holdiay" Sept 2011 Historical Association (Nuneaton branch) "London Virginia Company and its Warwickshire links" Sept 2011 Charnwood Conservative Luncheon Club "A Golden Age of Travel - is it over?" Aug 2011 Stoney Stanton Heritage Group "The American Civil War - a British Perspective" May 2011 Thrussington Local History Group "The History of the Package Holiday" April 2011 Blaby Heritage Group 'The Lure of the Sea' April 2011 Victorian Society (Leicester Branch) 'Thomas Cook's 19th Century Competitors'
Nov 2010 Barston (near Solihull) U3A 'A Golden Age of Travel'
Nov 2010 Hinckley Local History Group 'The Burton Brothers of Lindley'
Sept 2010 Mowsley Heritage Group 'The History of the Package Holiday'
Mar 2010 Paper at Leisure Studies Conference Bolton "From the Charabanc to the Gay Hostess"
Mar 2010 Private lunch lecture to Thomas Cook Retired Staff Association (Midlands) "Thomas Cook's 19th Century Competitors"
Mar 2010 Brunch lecture at National Trust Baddesley Clinton "James Smithson and the Smithsonian"
Sep 2009 South West Leicestershire Literary Lecture (Heritage Weekend) "The Burton Brothers of Lindley" at Fenny Drayton Parish Church
July 2008 Brackenbury Lecture for Society of Lincolnshire Archeology & History "Lincolnshire Connections with the London Virginia Company"
May 2007 Syon House West London "Aspects of the London Virginia Company" in connection with Jamestown 400th anniversary
Nov 2006 Presentation to Churches Tourism Association National Covention at Swanwick (Derbyshire)
Jul 2005 Baltic Arts Centre Gateshead "Early Tourism to the Swiss Alps"
Several brunch lectures for National Trust at Baddesley Clinton 2007-10
U3A groups visited include Ashby, Charnwood, Lichfield, Countesthorpe, Lutterworth, Oadby & Wigston, Hinckley, Tamworth & Loughborough
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