Richard, a historian and a musician, takes the audience on a journey through the decades singing largely familiar songs and putting them in their context. Educational, but the emphasis is also on fun as he encourages the audience to join in the choruses.

Speaker biography

Richard (Dick) Churchley has more than thirty years experience working in the music scene. He has performed solo and in various bands and duos on radio and in concert at all sorts of venues: from big festivals to intimate pub settings, from Children in Need concerts at the BBC to private parties. He has a reputation for serious music with a sense of fun; message with entertainment.

Richard is an experienced local historian, specialising in areas of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and North Gloucestershire. Although his first degree was a BA in German at the University of Reading, in recent years Richard was awarded an MA in English Local History at the University of Birmingham, during which he wrote a history of Sambourne, West Warwickshire in the period 1680-1780. In 2010 Richard was awarded a doctorate at the University of Birmingham for his study of changing occupational structure in the rural area around Redditch (in East Worcestershire) and Alcester (in West Warwickshire), the area where he has lived for more than thirty years. Richard is now working on various publications emerging from this PhD study.

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