Simon Inglis - lectures and events
Simon Inglis is a highly regarded speaker, conference chairman and tour leader.
For English Heritage Simon has led tours of the former Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and of Fulham FC's Craven Cottage, and has also spoken at English Heritage's annual Festival of History event.
In 2009 for the Hackney Society he led a cycle tour of former swimming baths in east London, details of which were featured in a Sony award-winning podcast.
In 2006 he was a keynote speaker at a conference on Sport and the City at the University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand). Other lectures that year included a local history day at Lambeth Library (south London), at an exhibition, 'Ipswich at Play' at Ipswich Town Hall; at the Beyond Words books festival of University College School (north London), and at the launch of the Friends of Moseley Road Baths (Birmingham).
Other venues for lectures and presentations have included Valley Parade (Bradford), the Institution of Structural Engineers (London), the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (Dundee), the London College of Communications and Birkbeck College, London. He also lectures annually to post graduate FIFA students at De Monfort University, Leicester and to visiting students from Minnesota.
In 2010 he has lectured on Glasgow's sporting heritage at the Aye Write Festival in Glasgow, on Victorian Sport for the Victorian Society, and on sporting heritage in Birmingham to the National Trust at the Barber Institute.
In April 2011 Simon appeared on the BBC's One Show in a short film from Dulwich Baths, talking about the history of Victorian wash-houses.
Simon's forthcoming public lectures and events
Sporting Treasures of Tyne and Wear
As part of local history months, three illustrated lectures focusing on the recent publication Played in Tyne and Wear
May 16 2011, 14.00
South Shields Library, Prince George Square
Details of exhibition to accompany lecture
May 16, 2011 18.00
Sunderland City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street
More details
Tuesday May 17, 19.00
Shipley Art Gallery, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead
For more details of the Played in Tyne and Wear lecture series, visit twmuseums.org.uk
Comments on recent events by Simon Inglis
For the past three years our students have travelled to England to study the Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern football. Simon Inglis has been a centrepiece of our program, leading a tour of Craven Cottage and lecturing on the Victorian era, Archibald Leitch, and the early football stadium. His skill as a lively and entertaining presenter, his breadth of knowledge, and his reputation as a historian of sport makes this a day that we as instructors look forward to every year, and one which our students always remember.
— Morris Levy, University of Minnesota
One of the most fascinating evenings we have enjoyed in our longstanding public lecture series on architectural history. We look forward to inviting Simon again.
— Neil Grieve, Dundee Conservation Lectures, organised by Dundee University and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
Fascinating. Simon grabbed the attention and interest of the audience and held it.
— John Ashton Bradford City Bantams Past Museum
Simon's fascinating talk kept his audience spellbound.
— Lawrance Hurst, Institution of Structural Engineers History Study Group
A fascinating lecture. Simon's knowledge is encyclopaedic and the enthusiasm for his subject is infectious... an evening full of wonderful detail and evocative pictures, and so entertaining.
— Angela Dixon Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group
