The story of the most damaging British earthquake in the last three hundred years that struck Essex in 1884, turning a peaceful sunny morning into chaos for its inhabitants.
I'll first show that there has been a number of notable earthquakes in British history. Then using eyewitness accounts and photographs reveal just how damaging the earthquake was and how the inhabitants of Essex coped with its effects on the day.
Views: 97 | Enquiries: 1I have always had an interest in history, local history and family history. In the 1980s I studied at the Open University and achieved an honours degree in history.
Since then, I have carried out a great deal of research as a writer for both print and online. For 15 years I was a self-employed genealogist which included research for the television programme Who Do You Think You Are.
I have written a book on the history of Kelvedon Hatch, and I give guided tours of Kelvedon Hall which is the subject of one of my talks.
For the last ten years I have organised a local history group, so I appreciate the difficulty of finding speakers and I thought it was now time to help out other groups and organisation by becoming a speaker myself.
I am willing to do emergency, short notice or regular talks. If I am available, then I'll do it!
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