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Staffordshire history
books by
Dianne Mannering

Sylvia M Everitt's Staffordshire
Millennium
Embroideries
A history of
Staffordshire

A Crown
for Staffordshire
A history of medieval Staffordshire barons

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

Mary Bodfish - Public Speaker

All of my talks last 50 - 60 minutes. I use either slides or overhead transparencies for illustrations and I provide all of my own viewing equipment. I appreciate the provision of a screen and either a projector stand (for slides) or a table. I'm happy to travel within a 15 mile radius of Smethwick in the West Midlands, but will go further if the M5 or M6 can be used. I am available daytime and evenings.

Mad Dogs and Maria Marten
- a talk-

Early 19th century local stories and the shock-horror sensations of the day, from Birmingham's local newspaper

local/family history/general interest talks - click on a title for more details -
Easy as ABC (illustrated)	Singularities of Bodfish (with slides)
How We Lived Then (with slides)	Beer, Bets and Bull-Baiting (illustrated)
Cavalier Dogs and Rounhead Rogues (illustrated)	The Theatre Royal Fire Tragedy (illustrated)
The History of Smethwick (with slides)	Mad Dogs and Marie Marten
Smethwick in the Second World War (illustrated)	The Mollett Family of Smethwick Grove (illustrated)
Early Years at Soho	Skulduggery at Soho

the following talks are of particular interest to Smethwick - please phone me if you would like to know more - my contact details are below -
Blue Gates and Beyond (illustrated)	Strange Tales From Smethwick (illustrated)
The Landscape of Warley (with slides)	Bygone Bearwood
From the Bear to the Barleycorn	Made in Smethwick
Old Church to Londonderry	People of Smethwick
Round About Old Church	Smethwick in 1900
Smethwick New Village	Smethwick's Other Wars
The Lost Mansions of Cape Hill	Up and Down Spon Lane
Wanderings in Warley	Windmill Lane to Six Ways

My fee is £30 plus travelling expenses where appropriate

I can be contacted via:-

Telephone: 0121 429 6551

email: mary.bodfish429@btinternet.com

Books by Dianne Mannering - click on a book to find out more

	Sylvia M Everitt's Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries		A Crown for Staffordshire			Silver Jubilee		Chadsmoor Tapestrey Group Creation Project

Click on a name for details about the speaker's talks, fee and contact details

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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

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

Northamptonshire

Captain William Wells - Church Stowe

Wiltshire

Catherine Dougherty - Salisbury

Samantha Scott - Swindon

Lynda Warren -Purton

Worcestershire

David Rushforth - Kidderminster

Yorkshire

Chris Helme

Robb Robinson - Hull

Peter Higginbotham

Scotland

Peter Stewart

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

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