Lectures

John lectures for the University of Kent throughout the Autumn and Spring terms, speaking on a variety of
architectural and social history studies. He is a regular tutor at Denman College which is the national
college of the Women’s Institute near Oxford. An enthusiastic and popular approach to his subject
ensures that he has a large following of regular students.

In addition to his contracted lectures John is a popular speaker at meetings of many different groups
including NADFAS, the National Trust, the Civic Trust, and historical societies country-wide. His
lecture tours to public Libraries and Colleges in Germany where he speaks on English literature
and its links with topographical history are well received.
 

His current portfolio of lectures includes:

• Bedrooms, Banquets and Balls - the history of the English Country House
• Leave no stone unturned - the lives and burial places of the famous and infamous.
• Britain with Betjeman - English architecture as seen through the eyes of our Poet Laureate. [More...]
• Kent Churches - an in-depth study of 1500 years of religious heritage. [More...]
• Sussex Churches - a huge variety of ecclesiastical architecture in Downland Country. [More...]
• Curious Kent - follies and unusual stories from the Garden of England.
• Curious London - overlooked aspects of London history.
• Eastwards from Wrotham - a comparative topographical study.
• The Church's Restoration - How our old churches were rebuilt in the nineteenth century
• Churches in Retirement - The work of the Churches Conservation Trust and the Friends of Friendless Churches [More...]
• Murder, Sex and Mayhem in English Churches [More...]
  
  Details of fees and availability on request.
   

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