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)

16th C (e.g. Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa, 1st Rhino seen in Europe since Roman times)

17th C (e.g. Hamlet performed on Red Dragon; Newton's laws of motion & gravity explained)

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)

19th C (e.g. Elgin marbles taken from Parthenon; Famine in Ireland, Gold digging in California)

20th C (e.g. Dada art movement; Superman on RADAR)

Whistlestop tour - 100 designs - few sentences for every five years.