Information about talks and lectures will appear here.
I offer talks on the following:
Paul is a visiting professor at the universities of Huddersfield and Bolton, where he straddles a wide subject area from transport to social history. He is an accomplished public speaker and published author. His PhD from the University of Salford is on the social history of Lancashire Dialect Literature and its writers. He is available to speak to societies, community groups, Rotary clubs and academic organisations.
During summer, some of Paul’s talks can be done as ‘rambles’ of up to 2-3 miles, both urban and more rural.
Paul’s subject area is eclectic but here are some examples of talks he has given relatively recently (before and after Lockdown!):
- ‘Lancastrians: mills, mines and minarets’: a question of identity
- The Lancashire Dialect Writing tradition
- The Railways of the North: yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Allen Clarke (1863-1935) Lancashire’s Romantic Radical
- The Winter Hill Mass Trespass of 1896
- The Rise of Socialism and Co-operation in the North
- The Clarion Cycling Clubs and their Club Houses
- Walt Whitman and his Lancashire Friends
- Forgotten Railways of Lancashire
- Banishing Beeching: The Community Rail Movement
- A Railway Library and Art Gallery on the Furness Line
I charge fees that are affordable to the organisation concerned, to fit their budget – so by negotiation. An average fee is in the region of £70, all in.
My preferred geographical location is in the North-West or the West Riding, ideally by train/bus or bike. However, with sufficient notice I can go further afield!
See www.lancashireloominary.co.uk
109 Harpers Lane
Bolton BL1 6HU
Phone 07795 008691
paul.salveson@myphone.coop