Our speaker for Aug ’25 is one of our long term members David Warwick, who will be speaking about life in wartime Wickham based on his mother Dorothy Warwick’s journal, only discovered after her death. She was responsible for 100’s of evacuees. David’s book “Home Front Wickham” brings this time, when invasion was imminent, vividly to life.
David, comes from Wickham in Hampshire, was privately educated and, following National Service in RAF Fighter Command, graduated with a History degree from London University. He taught History and Religious Education at secondary schools in Portsmouth and Bristol, was Vice Principal at Farnham College, Surrey, a lecturer at York & Lancaster universities (where he was awarded a PhD) and Deputy Director of the DTI Enterprise Awareness in Teacher Education programme.
Since retirement he’s been a part-time tutor at the Open, Leicester, Middlesex and Moscow State Pedagogic Universities (visiting professor), a consultant in Honduras, Russia, Finland, Ukraine and Australia. He has been writing all his life, for the press and has published some 40 non-fiction books.
A long-time member of the Literary Society – his wife, Ann, was formally the treasurer – David has appeared in four productions at the Chichester Festival Theatre.