Lectures
Previous lectures include: Chicago Humanities Festival; National Archives, London; Imperial War Museum, London; Museum of London; National World War I Museum, Kansas City; National D-Day Museum, New Orleans; Pritzker Military Library, Chicago; Sydney Writers' Festival; Brisbane Writers' Festival (voted best speaker); University of Perth, Western Australia; New Zealand Book Council, Wellington; Cheltenham Literary Festival; Cambridge History Festival; Folkestone Literary Festival; Ilkley Literature Festival; Throckmorton Literary Festival; Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheon; and numerous other festivals and events in Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Praise for Neil Hanson’s Lectures
‘Just wanted to thank you for a great - and very moving - event here. I have lost count of the number of people who came up and said to me “I see you saved the best till last.” It was absolutely compelling and you really had the audience with you all the way.’ Rachel Feldberg, Director, Ilkley Literature Festival
'Neil Hanson is an extraordinarily lucid, compelling and interesting speaker, mixing the personal and factual in a very beguiling way. I hugely enjoyed his talk and can't recommend him highly enough.' Simon Winder, Publishing Director, Penguin Press
‘The best - and the best-received - of all the 100 events we have put on here.’ Ed Tracy, Executive Director, The Pritzker Military Library, Chicago
‘Thank you so much - your talk was brilliant.’ Meriel Jeater, Curator, Museum of London
‘We're gratified by the size of the audience, their attentiveness and their positive response... Once again, thank you for making it an extraordinary experience!’ Peter Kuntz, Managing Director, Programmes and Productions, Chicago Humanities Festival
‘It was a joy to have you with us for the day... your presentation drew raves.’ Eli Paul, Director, National World War I Museum, Kansas City
‘It is the high quality of the talks which contributes most to the success of the festival and you did us proud.' Cambridge History Festival
‘Excellent; eloquent and articulate delivery, clearly on top of his brief.’ National Archives, London
‘Neil Hanson offered the audience a great display of verbal pyrotechnics.’ Sydney Writers’ Festival
'A vivid, engrossing and very entertaining speech. You saw for yourself how well it went down.' University of Perth, Western Australia
Best Speaker (vote by audiences), Brisbane Writers Festival
'It was a spellbinding talk. Thank you.' New Zealand Book Council, Wellington
‘A wonderful speech, thank you.’ Audience member, D-Day Museum, New Orleans.
'Folks still mention "the Brit who spoke without a note".' National World War I Museum, Kansas City
'The best public speaker I've ever heard.' Audience member, Borders, Charing Cross Road, London
'You were a star, everyone really enjoyed listening to you.' Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheon
‘Thanks for the wonderful event you contributed to our Festival. The feedback we have had for this event has been tremendous - there have been many comments from people telling us how much they enjoyed your talk.’ Off The Shelf Festival, Sheffield
‘I was immensely pleased to have heard the mind-blowing, Alpha Male and superb speaker Neil Hanson.’ Audience member, Leeds Trinity Festival, Leeds
'Neil Hanson is a captivating speaker.' Centre for Forensic Science, Sydney
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