General Topics

• Why free speech matters
• The life and times of _____ (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar/ Winston Churchill/ Bob Dylan)
• My Pop Idol (Give a speech on John Lennon, Elvis or someone similar)
• The evolution of _____
  (e.g. the railway locomotive headlamp)
• On this day in history
• When will man get to Mars?
• The first Moon Landing
• Top Internet searches
• Socializing Healthcare
• Tourism and marketing
• The Darwin Awards
• Origami in action - Show how you can make things out of paper (prepare some paper examples for the audience)
• Colour blindness
• 25 uses for a _____
  (paperclip/ tennis ball/ bus ticket)
• Who says that crime doesn't pay?
• My dream holiday
  (e.g. Walking a donkey in Ireland)

Famous lives

• Winston Churchill
• Scott of the Antarctic
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Julius Caesar
• Charles Dickens
• Longfellow
• Ronald Regan
• Marie Curie
• Joan of Arc
• General McArthur
• Nelson Mandela

Well known films (often a lot of the backup material can be found on a collectors DVD)

• Casablanca
• Jean de Florette
• Ben Hur
• The wizard of Oz
• Spartacus
• The Italian Job
• Gone with the Wind
• Forest Gump
• One flew over the cuckoos nest

History

• The six wives of Henry 8th
• The spanish civil war
• The rise of Nazism
• Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
• 1066 and all that
• The Gettysburg address
• Roman military hardware
• The telegraph: the 'internet' of the 19th Century
• Who invented the internet?

Nature

• Wolves in the living room - how the wolf evolved into of the domestic dog
• The secret life of an eel
• Is an owl really wise?
• A day in the life of a Beluga Whale
• Why Dolphins jump out of the water
• Cats and lions - how do they compare?
  

Books

• All quiet on the western front
• Little Women
• Pride and Prejudice
• Tom Sawyer
• A tale of two cities

More informative speech topics

• Top 20 tracks for your iPod
• What is inside your tap water ?
• What I would do if I won the lottery
• Easy ways to pass exams

Ideas in pictures

The evolution of the internet

What is left to discover ?

Who says that crime doesn't pay?

The physics of soccer

The life and times of Julius Caesar

The first moon landing

The hidden dangers in the refrigerator

Access to clean drinking water in the third world

The decline in fish stocks

Why dolphins jump out of the water?