Guest Speakers Directory

Alan D Godfrey
Details on Talk(s) Offered

POSTMAN’S KNOCK – A History of the Post Office in England and especially in Warwickshire from 1635 to the present day.

GENIUS & BENEFACTOR: THE LIFE STORY OF SIR ROWLAND HILL – The educator, inventor, social reformer and mastermind behind introduction of the Penny Black.

THE BLIND POSTMASTER GENERAL & THE SUFFRAGIST – The lives of Henry & Millicent Fawcett. Henry, the nineteenth century economist and MP, and Millicent, his wife, who was largely responsible for winning votes for women in 1918.

THE LAST EXPLORER: THE AMAZING LIFE OF SIR HUBERT WILKINS 1888-1958 – Photographer, filmmaker, explorer and aviator who flew across the Arctic, was the first to fly in the Antarctic and took a submarine under the Arctic ice among many other things.

PARCELS & NEWSPAPERS BY BUS: MIDLAND RED PARCELS EXPRESS SERVICE – The valuable service operated by the largest private bus company of the twentieth century, throughout the Midlands.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME – Communications by road in Roman England.

LIFE IN ROMAN ALCESTER – Said to be the best understood provincial Roman town in England.

KINWARTON – THE STORY OF A PINT-POT PARISH IN WARWICKSHIRE – Warwickshire smallest parish and its fascinating history.

ALCESTER THROUGH THE AGES – An illustrated history of a Warwickshire town from the time of the Romans to the present day.

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