We offer talks to clubs, societies, schools and Scout and Guide groups on a variety of subjects, both local history and ones of national and international interest.
Some of the subjects we can offer are:-
Local history
- Dunstable in an hour
- Medieval Dunstable
- Dunstable’s Augustinian Priory
- The King’s Weighty Matter (the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon which happened in Dunstable)
- The History of Dunstable’s Railway
- From Maidenbower to a Royal Village; an early history of the Chalk Hill settlements
- Dunstable Downs, a history from knolls to gliders
- Hospitality at the Crossroads – the Inns and Alehouses of Dunstable
- Queen Eleanor and her Crosses
- Natter with Doreen, 1940’s Dunstable
Other talks
- The Sinking of the Lusitania – bigger than Titanic?
- A Woman’s World – 1894
- The Luton Peace Day Riots, when the Town Hall burnt down
- The Suffragettes
- Kitty Marion, suffragette and women’s campaigner
- Margery Kempe, the noisy pilgrim
- Margaret Beaufort, Tudor matriarch
- Glastonbury – Idealism, Hedonism and Methodism
- What’s Your Cuppa?
- The Bolter, the life of a scandalous flapper
- Battersea Park & Funfair
- ‘Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside’ – a history of the seaside holiday
- The Very Capable Brown – Lancelot, his landscapes, his trees and his water
- Unwrapping Christmas – it’s customs and traditions
- Cinderella in history and literature
- Christmas Carols
If there are subjects you would like a talk about but they’re not on this list, please ask us, we may have a Guide who would be able to give a talk or can put you in touch with someone who can.
Schools, Scout and Guide groups! If you are in the local area we offer free talks on local history subjects.
We charge £40 for a talk, with a small mileage charge if your venue is over 8 miles from Dunstable, but please contact us if this would present your group a problem.
If you are interested in having a talk, please email us via our Contacts page for further information.
Dunstable Town Guides 