SPEAKERS FOR YOUR MEETINGS
The following people offer their services as speakers / entertainers to outside organisations.
Please contact the member directly to enquire about availability, terms, fees, etc.
Sid Calderbank 01257 269 397 [email protected]
Alyson Brailsford 07773 710 325 [email protected]om
Michael Higgins 0161 626 4007 [email protected]
Dr. Paul Salveson 07795 008 691 [email protected]
The speakers / entertainers have provided the following information :-
Sid Calderbank
Sid's talks on the Lancashire Dialect are -
Alyson Brailsford
Her talk is 'Journey through life as seen through the pen of the Lancashire dialect writers'.
Michael Higgins
My occasional topics for the Royton History Society have included Morris Dancing and Rushbearing, Rhymes and Songs of the Christian Year, Peterloo, and various specialised local history topics such as History of Royton, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 in Lancashire etc. In 2013 (the 500th anniversary) I spoke to half a dozen societies on Lancashire and the Battle of Flodden - The Lancashire troops made up a third of the English army. So, anything on Lancashire is my general interest.
As for the subject of Lancashire literature - dialect and standard - I have not actually put together anything as yet. I do recite and sing dialect and standard verse at poetry and music events and could produce something on medieval Lancashire verse up to today.
Alternatively, I could do an outline of more obscure dialect writers and their work.
Dr. Paul Salveson
Among his talks are -
NB. The Society accepts no responsibility for any person named here or the quality and/or suitability of any performance by them.
Please contact the member directly to enquire about availability, terms, fees, etc.
Sid Calderbank 01257 269 397 [email protected]
Alyson Brailsford 07773 710 325 [email protected]om
Michael Higgins 0161 626 4007 [email protected]
Dr. Paul Salveson 07795 008 691 [email protected]
The speakers / entertainers have provided the following information :-
Sid Calderbank
Sid's talks on the Lancashire Dialect are -
- 'A Lancashire Garland' - The History of the Lancashire Dialect in Songs, Stories and Poems
- 'Love and Romance in Victorian Lancashire' - Poetry and Prose from Lancashire's finest
- 'The Lancashire Cotton Famine' - How we survived the American Civil War (1861 - 65)
- 'Jone O'Grinfilt' - Lancashire's most successful 19th century ballad
- 'The Poets & Poetry of Victorian Blackburn' - Just what it says!
Alyson Brailsford
Her talk is 'Journey through life as seen through the pen of the Lancashire dialect writers'.
Michael Higgins
My occasional topics for the Royton History Society have included Morris Dancing and Rushbearing, Rhymes and Songs of the Christian Year, Peterloo, and various specialised local history topics such as History of Royton, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 in Lancashire etc. In 2013 (the 500th anniversary) I spoke to half a dozen societies on Lancashire and the Battle of Flodden - The Lancashire troops made up a third of the English army. So, anything on Lancashire is my general interest.
As for the subject of Lancashire literature - dialect and standard - I have not actually put together anything as yet. I do recite and sing dialect and standard verse at poetry and music events and could produce something on medieval Lancashire verse up to today.
Alternatively, I could do an outline of more obscure dialect writers and their work.
Dr. Paul Salveson
Among his talks are -
- 'Dialect literature of the Lancashire Cotton Industry'
- 'Allen Clarke/Teddy Ashton... Lancashire's Romantic Radical'
- 'Women dialect writers in Lancashire'
NB. The Society accepts no responsibility for any person named here or the quality and/or suitability of any performance by them.