Historian - Enthusiast - Actress Manquée

During an extraordinarily colourful life, Susan has worked as PA to Sir John Betjeman: cooked for Bridgette Bardot's ex, Gunter Sachs in St Moritz, and owned award-winning country-house hotels.

Her abiding PASSION IS HISTORY! She ha a phenomenal memory for quirky and unusual facts. She qualified as a London Tourist Board Registered Blue Badge Guide, the most prestigious qualification in the profession. enabling her to guide at all the major London sites and throughout the UK. She has toured with an amazing array of specialist groups ranging from hymnologists, studying hymn writers, to Mills & Boon authors specialising in the risqué Regency period: from debt collectors to escorting the 200-strong Yale Alumni Choir on tours in the UK and overseas. She has worked worldwide as a Tour Director alongside specialist lecturers: taking Painting Tours to Zanzibar, Riding Tours in the Rockies, Wildlife Tours in Africa and Tiger Tours to the jungles of India. She has a special love of the subcontinent and has researched and escorted a Tour of Private Gardens of India.

Susan's talks reflect her exceptional experiences and he love of history as a living vibrant subject. What marks her out as different is the funny, individual conversational way that she speaks without notes. Her enthusiasm is contagious.

Achievement - History - Travel

Cantering through a funny life - PA to Sir John Betjeman and Archie, his celebrated teddy bear: cooking for Bridgitte Bardot's ex., Gunter Sachs in St.Moritz: '1066 & All That': revelations of a London Guide... in between racking down tigers in the jungles of India and avoiding being eaten.

Hysterical History - Why does Charles II keep popping out of his coffin?
Which Stately Home has a friendly dog who shows you to your room and then walks through the wall, because he is a ghost?

Historical animals in the lives of their famous owners - Florence Nightingale always carried an owl in her pocket, which she had rescued from being tortured: The Duke of Wellington rode his beloved horse throughout the Battle of Waterloo and designed a monument to him in St.Paul's: Oscar WIlde took his pet lobster for walks around Oxford. Fact or Fiction? Come and find out!