Bill Laws is a regular speaker at gardens clubs, U3A groups, history societies, literary festivals and horticultural shows in the UK and abroad. Bookings: billlawsbooks@gmail.com
Please note: Day time venues preferred!
Artists’ Gardens – from Barbara Hepworth and Frida Kahlo to Patrick Heron, Johannes Larsen, Claude Monet and Stanley Spencer.
Plants That Changed the Course of History – Bill shares his top ten favourites from the tulip and sunflower to that king of the vegetable patch, the potato.
Green Tips – a planet-friendly guide to vegetable growing.
From coping with composting, saving seed and recycling old tools to welcoming wildlife, maintaining natural corridors and setting up neighbourhood veg plots.
A Curious History of Vegetables – A lighthearted look into guinea gardens, allotments, vegetable aphrodisiacs, onions johnnies and the rest.
The White Stuff – Bill delves into the country milk trade to meet milkmaids and milkmen, munition workers and nursing mums, Milky Bar Kids and chocolateers.
Working Women: 1916-1966
Fifty years of change in the Shire, from domestic service and munitions to Land Girls, teaching and the typing pool.
A Countryside At War – how one rural shire managed its Home Front through two World Wars.
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