Matthew Alexander, Curator of Local History at Guildford Museum, is available to speak to groups and organisations, either in the museum or at your local centre.  Please contact the museum for a scale of fees.

Contact: Guildford Museum
Tel:  01483 444750

(Illustrated talks - using Power Point - are marked PP)

• The History of Guildford (PP)
• Surrey Customs and Traditions 
• The History of Stoke (PP)
• The History of Merrow (PP)
• ‘The Making of Guildford Blue’ - the wool trade in south-west Surrey (PP)
• Timber-framed houses in west Surrey (PP)
• Surrey in the Civil Wars
• Archbishop George Abbot & his Hospital (PP)
• ‘The Wey - river and navigation’ (PP)
• Georgian Guildford (PP)
• Coaching and coaching inns on the Portsmouth Road (PP)
• ‘Stand & Deliver’ - highwaymen in Surrey
• ‘Monro’s Guildford’ - scenes of the 1830s (PP)
• Victorian Guildford (PP)
• Victorian Life in the Surrey Hills (PP)
• Gertrude Jekyll & Old West Surrey (PP)
• Victorian childhood (PP)
• Lewis Carroll & Guildford
• Guildford in the Second World War (PP)
• ‘The Government of Guildford’ - a history of the corporation (PP)
• The Wine Trade in Medieval Guildford

Shorter talks (20-25 minutes)

• Surrey Christmas Customs (Popular at Christmas!)
• ‘Mistress of the House’ - middle-class women in 17th century Guildford
• ‘Semaphore & Telegraph’ - Admiralty signal stations in west Surrey (PP)
• The Breweries of Guildford (PP)
• ‘The Battle of Guildford Gap’ - invasion defences of 1940 (PP)