Talks

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I give a variety of talks and lectures to audiences ranging from local schools, history groups, and the WI to the Royal Society, the Royal Institution, and the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society.

Subjects include:

• About Time – is it real; how we measure it; time travel.

• Are we alone in the universe?

• Charles Darwin; Are earthworms deaf?

• Coal, steam, and power

• Cosmology, a beginner’s guide

• Hands-on science for primary schools

• Heroes of the Industrial Revolution

• Inventors and scientific heroes of Devon/ Cornwall/the north-east/Scotland etc.

• Just another day - science and technology of everyday life

• Much ado about nothing (the history of the vacuum)

• Taking the piss out of London

• The Eddystone lighthouses

• The Great Exhibition of 1851

• The Lunaticks of Birmingham

• Toilets and history

• What made Britain Great

• What the industrial revolution did for us

Presenting at the IKB Awards, Brunel University

Upcoming Talks 2012

Friday 3 February 2012: Pitlochry, The Winter Words Festival

Friday 10 February: Churchstow, Devon, talking about the Eddystone Lighthouse.

Wednesday 15 February: Blackawton WI, Devon

Thursday 1 March: Ringmore WI

Monday 9 April: Edinburgh Science Festival, talking about "Time", 5.30pm.

Saturday 14 April: Scarborough Literature Festival talking about "Time"

Wednesday 11 April: Modbury History Society, Devon

Friday 4 May. "The Cosmos - A beginner's guide" at Tiverton Astronomical Society

If you are interested in the possibility of my giving a talk for your organization, please contact my agent John Willcocks  

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