This is where you’ll find speakers who are new to the Public Speakers Corner website and also new talks by existing speakers. So if you use this website regularly, you’ll be able to quickly ascertain if one of your group’s favourite speakers has created another talk, or whether we have a new speaker who covers your area.
New Talks from our existing Speakers at Public Speakers Corner
Table Tennis Experience for all Ages
This is not a sit down and listen talk.
You will be amazed when Peter transforms your hall into a table tennis arena and gets everyone (and I do mean everyone) playing table tennis.
It doesn’t matter what ............
Peter Camrass
Maidstone, Kent
The Amazing World of Magic
This talk has been honed to perfection over 40 years. You will hear about the oldest magician known to mankind, the oldest trick in magic, scams based on ............
John Field
Epsom Surrey
It Won't Show on Stage
This talk has been developed and written by popular request. Whilst covering brief details of my own experiences in ............
Marion Pettet
Brentwood, Essex
Wonders of the Trade Routes of the World
This illustrated talk looks at the trade routes in the world which helped to exchange............
Dr Javad Hashemi
Birmingham
New Speakers to the Public Speakers Corner Website
The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase
On Saturday 23 January 1909, two Russians carried out a wages snatch at the Schnurrmann Rubbery factory in Tottenham. They fire six shots at the driver of the car making the delivery. This alerted the people next door, Tottenham Police, who jumped out of bed and abseiled out on the windows to give chase in their pyjamas. Having not used them for a while, they were unable to find the keys to the gun cupboard, so the PCs were issued with cutlasses instead.......
Geoff Barton
London, Manchester & Edinburgh
Ordinary People, Unexpected Lives
When delving into your family tree very occasionally a golden nugget of information appears and brings your distant forebears into 3D. A drowning, a brush with the law......
Karen Evans
Wombourne, Staffordshire
How Our Ancestors Died
Through the centuries causes of death have varied enormously in line with the social conditions of the day. You can learn a lot about family circumstances in the past .........
Mark Carroll
Epping, Essex
The Mysterious Loss of the SS Waratah
In the early morning of 27th July 1909 the Waratah overtook a steamship and sped ahead eventually slipping over the horizon ............
Brian Margetson
Wareham, Dorset
The Hammer of the Scots: Edward I and Scotland
A talk on Edward I’s attempts to subjugate Scotland, considering his motives, the nature of the ensuing conflict............
