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Mike graduated from Southampton University with a First Class Honours degree in Law and then pursued a legal career in Bristol for thirty years. He headed his firm’s Private Client department and introduced the country’s first 24/7 property transfer service.

He retired in 2003, initially moving to Spain and now lives with his wife Philippa in the Dorset town of Sherborne. He used his retirement to study the primary source material which his family had been storing in boxes and tea chests for hundreds of years – including diaries, accounts, journals and old newspapers. He used this information to write a social history of life in the eighteenth century, based on the life-story of his ancestor Richard Hall. He had been a hosier, making silk stockings, from his home at Number One London Bridge. The story was published as The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman, and since then Mike has had some fifteen books published, all with an eighteenth century flavour.

Mike has given talks in America (in New York and at Colonial Williamsburg) and in Spain, as well as in venues throughout Britain. In the last ten years he has delivered specialist talks on board cruise ships around the world – with Cunard, Regent Seven Seas, Oceania, Celebrity, Princess and with Fred Olsen lines.





REVIEWS:

Dr Valerie Shrimplin, Academic Registrar Gresham College: “I know from comments received from colleagues and members of the audience how interesting they found your talk and what an enthusiastic and engaging speaker you are – so clearly passionate about your subject.”

“I’m still in a happily stunned history haze.”

“Fabulous talk by Mike Rendell at Museum of London last night. He rocked the joint”.


Mike Rendell has written many books, all of them about Georgian England. His interest in the period was inspired by a fascinating cache of papers left by his 18th century ancestors. 

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Richard Hall 18th Century Silhouette


Mike Rendell

Author – Historian – International Lecturer

 

“Pass the parcel. That’s sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on.

Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day.

Pass it on, boys. That’s the game I want you to learn. Pass it on…” 

Character: “Hector, the History Teacherfrom Alan Bennett ‘s The History Boys – London, 2006

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Attributions and Bibliography

Richard Hall Georgian Gentleman