MY HOLIDAYS Waterside was a caravan park by a rocky cove. The railway line ran next to it, taking trains to Paignton and Torquay. At the age of eight I sat on the grassy embankment and watched the Great Western … Continue reading
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EVENTS 2016-2017 23 June 2016 revision
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EVENTS 2016-2017 – 23 June 2016 revision
This is my list of forthcoming lecture gigs for 2016-17. In April 2016, I did a cruise on Fred Olsen’s ship Braemar along the French coast to Bordeaux and ending with a beautiful cruise up the seine estuary. This was the fourth time that Fred Olsen had invited me to lecture, and I am grateful and assume I must be doing something right. The organisational skill of the cruise companies and the quality of their staff never cease to amaze me. The lecture in Chester was fun and the topic of Great Forgers seems to be the one audiences most ask for. The Grimsby lecture went well to a large audience and gave me an opportunity to see a much loved niece and her husband. The Hazel Grove lecture was a repeat invitation after both audience and lecturer had great fun with Great Forgers in 2015. In April my wife and I took a short break in Bath and used the opportunity to lecture to the Bedwyn History Society following an invitation received on one of my cruises.s
Chester 25.1.16
Great Forgers
Grimsby – Everyman Club 9.2.16
The First Great credit Crunch
Hazel Grove – Stockport Walking and Outdoor Group
9.3.16
Casanova
Heaton Chapel Li & Phil 9.1.17
Great Forgers
Hull Lit & Phil Soc 15.11.16 Casanova
Keswick 1.11.16
Great Forgers
Romily U3A 28.7.16
Charlatans and Frauds
Wiltshire – Bedwn History Society 12.4.16
Casanova
EVENTS 2016-20017 – 7.12.15 revision
This is my list of forthcoming lecture gigs for2016 excluding any cruises. In 2016, I did a cruise on Fred Olsen’s ship Black Watch to Morocco and several ports in the Western Mediterranean. As with my two previous lecture cruises, … Continue reading
“A MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN” A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – “THE LAST VICTORIAN” – LESSON FIVE
THE LAST VICTORIAN My childhood was spent in a Victorian world of slums: of mill chimneys, cobbled streets, gas lamps and yellow smogs. This wasn’t true for all my contemporaries in nineteen fifties Oldham. The Coppice, for example, was the … Continue reading
A GUIDE TO WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY. – “THE LAST COWBOY IN WREXHAM” – LESSON FOUR – By Jim Williams
LESSON FOUR – THE LAST COWBOY IN WREXHAM Hughie Williams was an Indian fighter. He and his drinking pal, my Uncle Denis, killed the last one in Wrexham, in the summer of 1954, one morning shortly before breakfast, while Little … Continue reading
EVENTS 2015 – 2016 – 30.7.15 revision
From the frequency with which I post blogs you might think I don’t care. The truth is that I don’t want to bang on about my own fictitious glory or trumpet my frequently idiotic opinions. On the other hand you … Continue reading
How to write your autobiography – A free course
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How to write your autobiography – A free course How to write your autobiography – A free course – INTRODUCTION For years I recommended to people that they should write their autobiography, not with any particular view to publication but … Continue reading
Adjudicating Short Stories
ADJUDICATING SHORT STORIES I’ve just done an adjudication of a long list of 16 short stories under a competition organised by Multi-Story (see http://www.multi-story.co.uk/). The results will be published at the end of the month on that site first, and … Continue reading
Readers’ Groups
Here was me, thinking I’d written this yesterday. In fact I did write it yesterday but somehow failed to publish it. Incompetence, I guess. Last week I addressed a readers’ group in Durham. It was enjoyable: I get to do … Continue reading