Events
David Lough is an experienced speaker at many different types of events - conferences, lectures, awards dinners, formal or informal lunches or dinners to entertain business or personal guests, charity events and literary festivals. You can catch a flavour of the types of audience to whom he has spoken in many countries by running through the list at the foot of this page.
To ask about David speaking at your event, please contact Toby Mossop at Chartwell Speakers (toby@chartwellspeakers.com); for literary or charity events, please contact events@davidlough.uk.
Subjects
David will tailor his talk to the particular audience or subject you may have in mind. A selection of some of the titles on which he has spoken is:
British Prime Ministers and their money - from Walpole to Blair Churchill and the art of the deal The Churchills and the Spencers Churchill's fixer: Brendan Bracken Churchill's ghosts Churchill's dark hours and dragons Churchill in Canada Churchill - shaped by inheritance? Churchill as an investor Churchill in India Churchill's secret second world war fortune Churchill and his lawyers Churchill in Scotland Churchill and trump - birds of a feather? Churchill and his mother - distant or close? Churchill and the cinema The private Churchill - through his portraits Educating Churchill How honest was Churchill? How to lose it - lessons from Winston Churchill Journeys with history Searching for Churchill's money Selling Chartwell What price leadership? Churchill and his money"David Lough Hits a Home Run. The Awards Dinner was as good as any of our productions over the last thirty years. I am not sure how we will top it next year..."
"You had the audience in your hands and one rightly said it was the best ever. It steered that difficult course between academia and entertainment. It was superb";
"Your speech was brilliant - we didn't want it to end!"; "an excellent and witty speech"; "a great presentation";
"I was honoured to be there and enjoyed the presentation immensely"; "thanks again for an outstanding event yesterday - evidenced by a substantial number of emails sent by our members."
"Thank you so much for your splendid talk last night. You were such a success. I have received some wonderful feedback. Everyone was clearly entranced by your enthralling anecdotes about Churchill’s tangled finances!"
"A huge thank you ... what a fantastic way to start the festival weekend!"; "David Lough was one of the best speakers I've heard - he made a subject in which I had no particular interest beforehand fascinating. I'd have happily listened for an hour."
"Thank you so much for your excellent talk. The reaction of the members I spoke to afterwards was without exception that it had been one of our very best meetings."
| DATE | TIME | ORGANIZER | LOCATION | INVITATION/PUBLIC | LINK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 26 Nov 2019 | 1230 | T Shenbanjo | Haberdasher's Aske's Hatcham College, Pepys Road, London SE14 5SF | By invitation | David will talk to students in Lewisham about his career and writing as part of this year’s Lewisham and Greenwich Schools Careers Showcase and its Careers in Literature Drive 2019. |
| Wed 27 Nov 2019 | 11.00 | T Shenbanjo | St Mary Magdalene C of E School, 1 Hendon St, Greenwich Peninsular, London SE10 0NF | By invitation | David Lough will talk to students about his career and writing as part of the Lewisham and greenwich Schools Career Showcase: Careers in Literature Drive 2019. |
| Wed 11 Mar 2020 | 6.30 p.m. for 7 p.m. | Ten Trinity Square Club https://club.tentrinitysquare.com | 10 Trinity Square, London EC3N 4AJ | By invitation | Historian David Lough talks to members of London’s exclusive Ten Trinity Square Club about writing his classic book No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money and the more recent Darling Winston: Forty years of letters between Winston Churchill and His Mother |
| Fri 15 May 2020 | 1 week arriving 22 May | www.roadscholar.org | On board Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton | Open to the public | David will lecture daily about Churchill’s life to passengers on QM2 who have booked on Road Scholar’s Churchill’s Finest Hour voyage, which proceeds to visit Blenheim Palace, the Churchill War Rooms, Houses of Parliament and Chartwell. |
| Fri 25 Sep 2020 | 1 week arriving 2 October | www.roadscholar.org | On board QM2 from New York to Southampton | Open to the public | David will lecture daily about Churchill’s life to passengers on QM2 who have booked on Road Scholar’s Churchill’s Finest Hour voyage, which proceeds to visit Blenheim Palace, the Churchill War Rooms, Houses of Parliament and Chartwell. |
| Fri 28 May 2021 | 1 week arriving 4 June | www.roadscholar.org | On board QM2 from New York to Southampton | Open to the public | David will lecture daily about Churchill’s life to passengers on QM2 who have booked on Road Scholar’s Churchill’s Finest Hour voyage, which proceeds to visit Blenheim Palace, the Churchill War Rooms, Houses of Parliament and Chartwell. |
| Fri 15 Oct 2021 | 1 week arriving on 22 October | www.roadscholar.org | On board QM2 from New York to Southampton | Open to the public | David will lecture daily about Churchill’s life to passengers on QM2 who have booked on Road Scholar’s Churchill’s Finest Hour voyage, which proceeds to visit Blenheim Palace, the Churchill War Rooms, Houses of Parliament and Chartwell. |