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A SET OF 25 TALKS
by Dr. ALEC GILL MBE
- PUBLIC SPEAKER
AUTHOR, HISTORIAN AND PSYCHOLOGIST ALEC GILL HAS PRESENTED TALKS TO HUNDREDS OF
GROUPS IN BOTH THE UK AND USA. HE OFTEN APPEARS ON TELEVISION AND RADIO BEING INTERVIEWED
ABOUT HIS RESEARCH, AND HAS PRODUCED MANY BOOKS, ARTICLES, and dvds BASED UPON HIS WORK. AS A PUBLIC
SPEAKER, ALEC BELIEVES THAT ENTERTAINMENT and EDUCATION ARE ENTWINED. AUDIENCE
PARTICIPATION IS A KEY ELEMENT OF HIS HUMOROUS TALKS. FEE BY ARRANGEMENT. YOU HAVE A
CHOICE FROM OVER 25 DIFFERENT TALKS UNDER FOUR BROAD HEADINGS:
HAPPY-go-LUCKY ENGLISH
- * THE GAMES WE USED TO PLAY - Street Games and Childhood fun.
- * SHIVER MY TIMBERS! - Nautical phrases in everyday speech.
- * I'LL BE A MONKEY'S UNCLE - Animal expressions used daily.
- * THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH - Anglo-Saxon and Norman influences.
THE REALM of SUPERSTITION
- * HOME, SWEET OMENS - An imagery walk through a
Victorian household.
- * ROYAL SUPERSTITIONS: Taboos of The British Royal Family.
- * RABBIT'S FOOT - Pet and animal-centred omens.
- * THE BIBLE + SUPERSTITION - Christianity and Pagan practice.
- * LUCKY FOR SOME - Friday the Thirteenth (including Easter Eggs).
- * GRANNIES SUPERSTITIONS - Women are the centre of many omens.
- * THE LOCH NESS MONSTER - A new theory for an old mystery.
HULL: The World's Great Trawler Port
- * HESSLE ROAD in its HEYDAY - Hull's fishing families
and industry.
- * FISH DOCK + ARCTIC TRAWLING - "The Price of Fish...".
- * FAMILY MIGRATION - Victorian labour flocked to thriving Hull.
- * WOMEN OF HESSLE ROAD - How they survived decades of tragedy.
- * LOCAL HISTORY RESEARCH - the joy of exploring your home town.
- * BYGONE TIMES - A trip down Memory Lane of Hull's past years.
PSYCHOLOGY - What Makes Us Tick?
- * INTRODUCTION - Five dynamic Schools of Psychology.
- * BODY LANGUAGE - Unconscious signals says what we dare not
utter.
- * MENTAL PROBLEMS - Types of disorders and treatments.
- * OTHER TOPICS - Childhood, Aggression, Personality, Language, Self-confidence, Sex
Labelling, Ageing, Person-centred approach.
BOOK ALEC FOR A FUTURE TALK:
The fee is negotiable, but needs to be 100+ in order to cover travel costs and
time away from research and writing work.
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