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Staffordshire history
books by
Dianne Mannering

Sylvia M Everitt's Staffordshire
Millennium
Embroideries

A history of
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries book cover

A Crown
for Staffordshire

A history of medieval Staffordshire barons
book cover A Crown for Staffordshire

visit the Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries website
see all 11 panels and read the history of Staffordshire that inspired their creation

12th century panel Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries
click here

 

Brian Higgs

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Brian Higgs public speaker

About my talks: My talks are illustrated by slides

About me: Brian Higgs is well-known as an entertaining speaker with an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subjects - if you want to be amused and informed, he is your man.
A connoisseur of fine arts and social history, Brian travels the length and breadth of the British Isles talking to people wherever they get to hear of him. He is also happy to take groups on Antique Forays to destinations of their choice in Britain and Europe under his banner 'Academia Talks and Tours'.


 

My Talks

Antiques Roadshow

Bring along your heirlooms and bygones for description, dating and valuation

Yesterday's Shopping

A nostalgic look at shopping customs, advertising and branded goods of yesteryear. Bring along your old tins and packets!

Appreciating Art - 1500 to1900

The history and development of art through the centuries

Aspects of Antiques

A general look at various antiques

Buying and Selling Antiques

On the web, in Auction Houses and privately. A layman's guide to unconventional investment

The History of Furniture

From tree to object of beauty and usefulness

Architecture Through the Ages

From classical Greece to Art Deco

My Thirty Years With the W.I.

Amusing anecdotes

Yesterday's Motoring

A trip down Memory Lane to a quieter and more individual age

British Butterflies

Their habitat and conservation

 

My fee is negotiable

distance is no object if you can provide accommodation

to contact me

Telephone: 01434 381404

email: higgs@slaggyford.demon.co.uk

Post: Brian Higgs - Academia Talks and Tours
Fell End House Slaggyford Brampton Cumbria CA8 7NW

Berkshire

Kevin Little

Cheshire

Arthur Cross - Stockport

Cornwall

Martin Biship - Launceston

Rachel Miles - Truro

Annie Olorenshaw - Cornwall

Angelica Sheldon-Fentem - Falmouth

Dan Thomas - Cornwall

Cumbria

Brian Higgs - Brampton

Dorset

Clive Greenaway - Poole

Essex

John Ashdown-Hill - Colchester

Greater Manchester

Arthur Cross - Stockport Cheshire

Hampshire

Marion Emery

Peter Redmond

 

Kent

Kendall-Tobias Helen -Maidstone

Leicestershire

Steve Short AIMC

London

Anita Alleyne

Kevin Little

Mike Head

Mary Hope - London & South East

Val Wiseman

Midlands

Anita Alleyne - West Midlands

Mary Bodfish - West Midlands

Keith Cheetham -West Midlands

Phil Colclough - Stoke-on-Trent

Sylvia M Everitt MBE - Cannock

Kirby-Tibbits Cliff - Walsall

Andrew Lounds - Birmingham

Alan Mannering - Birmingham

Dianne Mannering- Lichfield

Ken Marshall - West Midlands

Barbara Marshall - West Midlands


George Powell - Staffordshire


Clive Smith - Staffordshire

Brian Teall - Birmingham

Anne Wilkins - West Midlands





Nottingham

Trevor Dempsey

Andy Smart

Norfolk

Doreen Reed

Northamptonshire

Captain William Wells - Church Stowe

 

Scotland

Peter Stewart

Shrewsbury

Wood Martin

Somerset

Kevin Little - Chard

 

Staffordshire

Sylvia M Everitt MBE - Cannock

Phil Colclough - Stoke on Trent

Byron Machin - Leek

Dianne Mannering - Lichfield

George Powell - Stoke on Trent

Clive Smith - Lichfield

 

 

 

Wiltshire

Catherine Dougherty - Salisbury

Samantha Scott - Swindon

Lynda Warren -Purton

Worcestershire

David Rushforth - Kidderminster

Yorkshire

Chris Helme

Hunter Glenda


Robb Robinson - Hull

Peter Higginbotham

 

 

 

 

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