| Event type: | Meeting |
| Date: | 25th November 2025 |
I am an almost completely retired UK academic who has lectured to general audiences on a wide range of topics both in the UK and abroad. If you are impressed by titles I have a PhD and I am an emeritus professor – if you are not then I have of talking to audiences that have ranged from school kids to the U3A and in number from a handful in a pub on a wet Monday evening to hundreds at major events. So you can be sure of an informative, challenging and entertaining talk.
My media appearances include Radio Four (Thinking Aloud, More or Less, PM), Radio 2 (the Jeremy Vine Show), TV (News 24, Midlands Today), local radio and in – wait for it – Wetherspoons News. I have written for the local and national press. I have also authored, co-authored and edited five books. My published research has ranged across British and European history to the story of death and killing in war onto the controversies about the economy today whether at home or global.
For hundreds of years in Britain men and women fought for the right to vote. But today many
people are disillusioned with politics while others look for new beginnings. This talk tells the
story of how people – from the Levellers of the Civil War to the Chartists of the nineteenth
century and the Suffragettes of the twentieth century all fought for the right to vote to challenge those with wealth and power. But it also asks what would they think about politics in Britain today?