THE VISUAL TIME TRAVELLER
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Need a keynote speaker for your conference?  Alison's lecture tells intiguing stories of history, art and science since the Renaissance using over a thousand facts woven into a hundred graphic designs.  See some examples below or listen to the radio interview about the project - Ken Cowley with Alison Hackett on Dublin City FM 103.2 (16 mins)
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16th C (e.g. Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa, 1st Rhino seen in Europe since Roman times)
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17th C (e.g. Hamlet performed on Red Dragon; Newton's laws of motion & gravity explained)
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18th C (e.g. 1st clinical trial on a ship - how to treat scurvy; Tuscany is the first European state to abolish the death penalty)
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19th C (e.g. Elgin marbles taken from Parthenon; Famine in Ireland, Gold digging in California)
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20th C (e.g. Dada art movement; Superman on RADAR)
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Whistlestop tour - 100 designs - few sentences for every five years.
WHAT ARE CUSTOMERS SAYING?
You really inspired me and my birthday tomorrow and the first thing that I wanted to get was the book the way I found out about the book is because you came to my school and you talked about the book you have a really creative mind   Alice aged 10

A beautiful, breathtaking account of human endeavour  Sunday Independent

This book, as both a magnificent folly and a beautiful work of art attempts to pull together some of these now, disparate, threads of human endeavour  and show us, literally, how many interesting links there are between seemingly diverse topics. Irish Tech News

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  • Home
  • see inside
    • A few examples for a talk
    • the back cover
    • more about the project
  • collectors edition
  • exhibitions
    • Garter Lane Arts Centre
    • University Hospital Waterford
    • National Craft Gallery
    • Dublin Castle 2016
    • So Collective Kildare Village 2016
    • Fumbally Exchange 2016
    • RDS exhibition 2014
    • RHA launch 2013
  • reviews
  • about
    • Newsletter