Speaking at the History Society

 

On Wednesday last week, I gave my long awaited talk on the history of UK tv adverts to Sunniside History Society. It went down very well. There was a big demand to replay the Hamlet cigar photo booth advert from the late 1980s. The advertising industry has come a long way from the Gibbs SR advert (the first UK tv advert broadcast in 1955) and nowadays it is often the case that the adverts are more absorbing and amusing than the tv ads.

My next talk will be in May when I will give a presentation on the local locations that were important during the Second World War.