History above Your Head – The Origins and Oddities of English Inn Signs with Quiz

History above Your Head – The Origins and Oddities of English Inn Sign with Quiz

Having set up a training business delivering programmes to a wide range of organisations all over the country and abroad, he qualified as a performance coach and a counsellor. Now retired he combines his lifelong passion for history as a speaker to WI’s, Probus, U3A’s, churches and other charitable groups.

Inns were rarely named by accident but were inspired by religion, royalty, heroes and the occasional scandal. This highly visual talk, with a quiz, explains how inns signs originate and traces their development from the Romans to the present day.