Public Speaking
I enjoy giving talks on business and technology (work-related) and history (personal passion).
I’m a member of the History group at Warrington U3A and have been giving talks to members for over 12 years.
I have given talks in person and over a number of different online platforms such as Zoom.
Past talks
Most of my past talks are listed here. I am often asked to give the same talk again, either at a different group or because the membership has changed.
| Date | Title | Group |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | Gaming on Linux | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| June 2026 | Cyber Essentials | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| April 2026 | The German Occupation of the Channel Islands | Warrington U3A |
| November 2025 | Cicero | Warrington U3A |
| March 2025 | Life as a coin-operated monkey | North West Drupal Users Group |
| November 2024 | Advent of Code | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| October 2024 | The Punic Wars | Warrington U3A |
| June 2024 | The Peloponnesian War | Warrington U3A |
| March 2023 | Pompey: The Rising Sun | Warrington U3A |
| December 2022 | Tiberius | Warrington U3A |
| July 2022 | Q&A on being a freelancer | Barcamp Manchester |
| January 2022 | Augustus: First Emperor of Rome | Warrington U3A |
| October 2021 | Q&A on being a freelancer | University of Manchester |
| September 2021 | Augustus: The Path to Power | Warrington U3A |
| May 2021 | Cicero | Warrington U3A |
| March 2021 | Linux Backups | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| December 2020 | The Punic Wars | Warrington U3A |
| November 2020 | Q&A on being a freelancer | University of Manchester |
| October 2020 | IPv6: A hosting and developer perspective | NetMcr |
| February 2020 | The Peloponnesian War | Warrington U3A |
| February 2020 | Life as a coin-operated monkey | NetMcr |
| October 2019 | Life as a coin-operated monkey | Oggcamp |
| October 2019 | Why PHP is great (and all other languages suck) | Oggcamp |
| November 2017 | The Fall of the Roman Republic | Warrington U3A |
| June 2017 | The Decline of the Roman Republic | Warrington U3A |
| June 2017 | Life as a coin-operated monkey | PHP North West |
| April 2017 | Lessons learned from Engima | Manchester InfoSec |
| March 2017 | Life as a coin-operated monkey | FLOSS UK |
| March 2017 | Using a Raspberry Pi as a local DNS resolver | FLOSS UK |
| February 2017 | Building Software and Documentation with GNU Make | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| January 2017 | Configuration Management with Ansible and Git | North West Drupal Users Group |
| November 2016 | Pompey and Caesar | Warrington U3A |
| September 2016 | Low Cost Computing with Linux | Barcamp Manchester |
| September 2016 | Configuration Management with Ansible and Git | Barcamp Manchester |
| June 2016 | The Punic Wars | Warrington U3A |
| May 2016 | Low Cost Computing with Linux | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| March 2016 | Why PHP is great (and all other languages suck) | FLOSS UK |
| March 2016 | Configuration Management with Ansible and Git | FLOSS UK |
| November 2015 | The Peloponnesian War | Warrington U3A |
| July 2015 | Not just Linux: BSD, Solaris et al. | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| June 2015 | The Fall of the Western Roman Empire | Warrington U3A |
| June 2014 | Introduction to Puppet | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| May 2014 | Transition from Republicanism to Imperialism | Warrington U3A |
| November 2013 | Introduction to Vagrant | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| January 2013 | Debian Packaging | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| March 2012 | Verifying Downloads | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| April 2008 | Adventures with OpenVPN | Manchester Linux Users Group |
| February 2007 | The Periclean Citizenship Law of 451 BC | Annual Postgraduate Conference in History and Classics |