David Bell

TALKS

My talks average about 50 minutes (but can be adapted to anything from 30-75 minutes), and have been performed to numerous WIs, TWGs, co-op groups, Rotary, Inner Wheel, Probus and Round Table groups, luncheon clubs, local history groups, and have been performed as after dinner speeches.  I have given talks throughout Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, with occasional forays into Rutland, Notts, Warwickshire and Northants.

1.  Down the Garden Path - tales of the privy (Leics, Notts, Derbys, Staffs and other Midlands counties)

2.  Leicestershire and Rutland Ghosts and Legends - Black Annis, the Belvoir witches, five to four Fred,

3.  Leicestershire and Rutland Murders - Earl Ferrers, Topsy Turvy,  the Green Bicycle murder, the first use of DNA

4.  Leicestershire Heroes - Alec Jeffreys, Alice Hawkins, Eliane Plewman, Johnnie Johnson

5.  Leicestershire Ladies - Lady Jane Grey, Sue Townsend, Alice Hawkins, Clare Hollingworth, Mary Linwood

6.  Leicestershire in the 40s and 50s - bath night, rock n roll, Dick Barton and Dan Dare

7.  Memories of the Leicestershire Coalfields - talking and listening to the local miners

8.  Derbyshire Ghosts and Legends - Dickey's skull,  Anchor church, Fair Flora

9.  Derbyshire Murders - Wendy Sewell, Lynn Siddons, England's last revolution

10. Derbyshire Heroes - Alice Wheeldon, Joe Payne, Harold Lilly, Peter Fidler, Jack Bodell

11. Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields - Derbyshire miners reminisce

12. Staffordshire Ghosts and Legends - The skeleton tree, fair Clorinda, the drummer boy of Tompkin

13. Staffordshire Mysteries - Ludchurch, the Leek double sunset, the Saracens of Bidulph Moor, the Abbots Bromley horn dance

14. Staffordshire Murders - Carl Bridgewater, Lesley Whittle, Dr Palmer , Christina Collins

15. Nottinghamshire Murders - Dorothea Waddingham, Michael Sams, Barry Prudom

16. Memories of the Nottinghamshire Coalfields - tales from the Notts miners