We have a range of talks relating to the history of Nantwich. Our speakers can be booked to come to speak to your group or in some cases can deliver the talk online.
Please get in touch for further information about availability and prices.
Nantwich Museum Talks – 2025
Brian Cole:
Civil War/Battle of Nantwich
St Pancras Station
David Nellist:
Brine: Cheshire’s blessing
The history of Nantwich gas works
Murgatroyd’s brine pumping station: a scheduled monument in Middlewich
The mystery of the Electro Bleach & Byproducts Co in Middlewich
Graham Dodd:
Tales of the Marches
Travellers’ tales of the Marches
The story of the Shropshire Union Canal
A glimpse of life on the Shropshire Union Canal
The canal at Nantwich
The story of a river, Nantwich and the Weaver Navigation
Nantwich in Tudor times
The drovers, their history and visits to Nantwich
A cameo of the Six Towns
Andrew Fuller Chater – a living memory
The story of Crewe Hall
Crewe Hall at war
John Gerard, English herbalist
A Crewe factory girl – the life of Ada Nield Chew
Such stuff as dreams are made on
Landscape with mills – in the Nantwich Hundred
Fortresses of the Marches
Nantwich on fire
POW Camp 74 – a story of common men
Baddiley – an ancient parish
Helen Cooke:
Pills, potions & poisons: A 17th century Nantwich apothecary’s tale
Communication and propaganda in the English Civil War
Life during the Siege and Battle of Nantwich
The parochial library at St Mary’s Church, Nantwich
The history of Townsend House and Nantwich Walled Garden
Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen: his time in Nantwich
The 250th anniversary of Joseph Priestley’s discovery of oxygen
The River Weaver and its water: the good, the bad and the ugly
Helen Macfarlane: from revolutionary to vicar’s wife
A ‘Summer of Science’ at Nantwich Museum
Introducing Nantwich’s history and the museum
Ian Short:
Witchcraft
Coronations
Nantwich gas works
‘Orrible High Street
Death in Nantwich
Les Pickford:
Illustrating history: featuring pictures made for the Museum
Producing pictures (requires some space to set the work out and pass it round)
Mick McCarthy:
Introduction to the history of Nantwich: an interactive talk featuring handling objects and artefacts from the Museum
Introduction to the Civil War in Nantwich: an interactive talk featuring handling objects and artefacts from the Museum
Trevor Evans:
The Devil’s Porridge: The history of munitions manufacture in WW1.
The bittersweet story of sugar: history, health and slavery.
The origins and evolution of Nantwich High Street.
Wyn Jones:
Welsh drovers
The geology of the Nantwich area
A gangster in the family
The Fens
Nature reserves in Great Britain