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Tuesday, 30 June 2020

The Nonconformist Revolution launches! The book explores how Nonconformity shaped our modern world both in terms of industrial innovation and radical insurrection - plus the extraordinary role played by nonconformist women - the driving force behind it all! Thank you to everyone who has supported me in this monumental endeavour – especially Pen & Sword publisher Jonathan Wright.


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Monday, 1 June 2020

The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848-1849 is book of the week on the Brixton Blog . Huge thanks to the Blog's Alan Slingsby. There is so much interest in pandemics at the moment - for obvious reasons - and so much to learn from the mistakes of the past!


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Friday, 29 May 2020

The second edition of Cholera the Victorian Plague is out! Thank you Pen and Sword.


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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

With the fabulous Simon Elliott at another "Working in Writing and Publishing" evening at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Hosted by the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) and the School of English, this was the last public event before lockdown.


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Talk

Secrets of the Industrial Revolution

The City of Rochester Society, Rochester, Kent

Tuesday, 16 April 2019.


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Talk

Huguenots and the Industrial Revolution

Huguenot Museum, Rochester,

Saturday 28 October 2:00-3:30pm


“During the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront of innovation, an achievement in which Huguenot migrants and their descendants played a significant part.”


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Talk

The Nonconformist Revolution

The City of Rochester Society, Rochester, Kent

7 March 2017.


11 March 2016

At the "Working in Publishing" careers event at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A great evening - I met lots of aspiring young writers and some wonderful people including (pictured) Emily Cook from Doctor Who Magazine and Dr Jeremy Scott, Senior lecturer at UKC in English Language & Linguistics.

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Photograph by Mike Laycock, the School of European Culture and Languages.

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Thursday 6 October 2016

Tonight I gave my talk Cholera: Soho's Victorian Plague for The Museum of Soho at Blacks Club in London’s Soho. Here I am just before the talk started. A lot of people came, in fact so overwhelming was the interest, Blacks had to move us to a bigger room - and people were still standing at the back! And what a room it was – a wooden-panelled time capsule, lit by candlelight and overlooking Dean Street. The setting was the most atmospheric I had ever spoken in and could not have been more perfect to describe how cholera had killed so many in Soho during the Victorian period. I would not have been surprised if Dr John Snow had walked in to explain to us all how he had fought (and failed - read the book and you'll discover why) to prove cholera is a waterborne disease. There was much discussion about the cholera currently raging in Haiti, of course, and so many interesting questions. We retired to Blacks' bar where the conversation continued for a very long time ...

I am thrilled to have begun this association with the Museum of Soho and have been invited on to Soho Radio later in the month. Heritage is bloody wonderful!


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Talk

Diseases in Victorian Times

Harpenden and District Local History Society,

Tuesday, 24 November 2015.


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23 September 2015

Hot off the press! The first copies of Cholera: The Victorian Plague arrived today from Pen and Sword.

Copyright Amanda J. Thomas 2020.