Illustrated Talks...
I started giving talks on Henry John Hatch eleven years ago, initially to publicize Henry's Trials, the story of his life. Subsequently, I have presented talks on my second book, Smethurst's Luck, and book No. three, Murder in the Red Barn. Some original research on the life and work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel is the basis for a fourth talk.
I have also extracted material from my WEA course History of the Universe, to produced separate talks on Cosmology, the possibilities of life in the universe and Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Kepler.
To date, (May 2021), I have spoken to more than 120 groups including the U3A, WEA, Family History Societies, Lunch Clubs, Dinner Clubs, Probus Clubs and various other organizations; several, more than once. Audience sizes have varied from 15, to more than 250 in a cinema. If you would like me to talk to your group, please email me at pnd.maggs at gmail.com I will let you know my availability together with my fee and an estimate of travel costs (from Chelmsford, Essex). I generally do around one talk a month so most dates are available, and I am willing to fill in at short notice in the event of a speaker cancellation. A list of the organizations I have already given talks to is shown below. Several U3A speakers' secretaries have volunteered to give feedback following my visit. Should you wish to contact them, please let me know by email.
I am now doing talks by Zoom, the alternative to face to face meetings in these troubled times.
Presentations are given in PowerPoint. I can provide a digital projector and two metre wide screen which is usually adequate for an audience of 200 or more.
Click on the buttons at the bottom of this page for brief details of the talks.
I started giving talks on Henry John Hatch eleven years ago, initially to publicize Henry's Trials, the story of his life. Subsequently, I have presented talks on my second book, Smethurst's Luck, and book No. three, Murder in the Red Barn. Some original research on the life and work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel is the basis for a fourth talk.
I have also extracted material from my WEA course History of the Universe, to produced separate talks on Cosmology, the possibilities of life in the universe and Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Kepler.
To date, (May 2021), I have spoken to more than 120 groups including the U3A, WEA, Family History Societies, Lunch Clubs, Dinner Clubs, Probus Clubs and various other organizations; several, more than once. Audience sizes have varied from 15, to more than 250 in a cinema. If you would like me to talk to your group, please email me at pnd.maggs at gmail.com I will let you know my availability together with my fee and an estimate of travel costs (from Chelmsford, Essex). I generally do around one talk a month so most dates are available, and I am willing to fill in at short notice in the event of a speaker cancellation. A list of the organizations I have already given talks to is shown below. Several U3A speakers' secretaries have volunteered to give feedback following my visit. Should you wish to contact them, please let me know by email.
I am now doing talks by Zoom, the alternative to face to face meetings in these troubled times.
Presentations are given in PowerPoint. I can provide a digital projector and two metre wide screen which is usually adequate for an audience of 200 or more.
Click on the buttons at the bottom of this page for brief details of the talks.
Talks given to U3A GroupsRayleigh Grange, Essex
Brightlingsea, Essex Colchester, Essex Blackwater, Essex Dacorum, Herts (x3) Bromley, London (x2) Shenfield, Essex (x2) South-East London Hitchin, Herts Wisbech, Cambs Heybridge, Essex Elmbridge, Surrey Merton, London Enfield, London Norwood, London (x2) Wonersh, Surrey Hounslow, London South-West Herts, Herts Baddow & Galleywood, Essex Bookham, Surrey Pembury, Kent Saffron Walden, Essex (x2) Ash, Surrey Ealing, London (x4) Harrow, London (x2) Melbourn, Cambs (x3) Halstead, Essex Bishops Stortford, Herts March, Cambs Stanway, Essex London Lowstoft, Suffolk (x2) Kingston, London Tenterden, Kent Ware, Herts North Walsham, Norfolk (x2) Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex Chess Valley Family History Group, Bucks (x2) Chiltern Family History Group, Bucks (x2) Epsom & Ewell, Surrey Leigh Belfairs, Essex Hullbridge, Essex Edinburgh, Midlothian Basingstoke - Old Basing, Hants Horley & District, Surrey Benfleet, Essex (via Zoom) Witham and District, Essex (via Zoom) |
Chelmsford, Essex (x2) Leighton Linslade, Beds (x2) Runnymeade, Surrey (x2) White Cliffs, Kent Harwich Peninsular, Essex Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Hadleigh, Suffolk Bedford, Beds (x3) Luton, Beds Redbridge and District, London (x2) Kings Lynn, Norfolk (x2) Crawley, Sussex (x2) Woking, Surrey Tunbridge Wells, Kent Diss, Norfolk (x2) Downham Market, Norfolk (x3) Maidenhead, Berks Waltham Forest, London Guildford, Surrey (x2) Battle, Sussex Eastbourne Meads, Sussex Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk Sutton, London (x2) Weald, Kent Hammersmith & Fulham, London (x3) Bexley, London Roding Valley, London Leatherhead, Surrey Southend, Essex (x2) North London, London (x2) Dartford, Kent Buntingford, Herts The Rodings, Essex Maidstone, Kent Cheshunt, Herts Wanstead and Woodford, Essex (x3) Havering, London Spelthorne, Surrey (x2) Sidcup, Kent Epping Forest, Essex Rayleigh, Essex Windsor & District, Berks Witham & Braintree, Essex St Ives, Cambs (x2) Thetford, Norfolk Halesworth, Suffolk (via Zoom) |
Talks given to other groupsRudgewick Family History Society
Lively Minds, Dulwich Probus Club, Kings Langley, Herts (x3) Pyrford Retired Mens' Lunch Club, Woking Bucks Family History Society Wanstead Park Womens' Club Upminster Fellowship (x2) Harwich Centre Guild North Bucks Family History Society WEA, Eastern Region (Essex) (x3) Chelmsford Science & Engineering Society (x2) PSSA, Eastern Region Dinner Rainham Village Ladies Club Theydon Bois Men's Forum Bexleyheath & District Scout Fellowship Boxmore Probus Cub, Herts Teddington Library, Middlesex e2v, Chelmsford, Essex Probus Club, Biggleswade, Beds Canvey Dining Club, Canvey Island, Essex (x4) Queen's Theatre Club, Hornchurch, Essex (x4) Twickenham Local History Society Chelmsford NT Centre Support Group Stour Astronomical Society (x3) East of London Family History Society (x2) Rotary Club, Walton-on-Thames Chelmsford Ideas Festival Friends of Chelmsford Museums (x2) Essex Society for Family History, Essex Chelmsford Civic Society Bury Top Time Group, Suffolk Probus Club, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey Rochford Ladies' Lunch Club, Essex Probus Club, Epping, Essex Probus Club, Ascot, Berks JACS, Gant's Hill, Essex Sturton & Stow History Soc & Lindsey Probus Club The Orange Tree, Chelmsford, Essex |