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2^nd – Hook Norton – Tony Hadland “The Turbulent Life of Thomas Vachell”. Baptist Church Hall, Netting Street, 7:30pm.

3^rd – Otmoor – Mark Pollard “Murder at St. Johns College”. Islip Village Hall, 8:00pm.

3^rd – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust – John Bridgeman “600 years of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry”. Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street (behind the Oxfordshire Museum), Woodstock, 7:00pm. Further information here.

4^th – Eynsham – Michael Redley “John Buchan’s Oxford”. St Leonard’s Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

8^th – Chipping Norton – Gillian White “Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I and the Kenilworth Entertainment of 1575”. Methodist Room, West Street, 7:30pm.

8^th – Goring & Streatley – Tim Healey “The Green Man in Oxfordshire”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.

8^th – Radley – Liz Woolley “Leisure and Entertainment in Edwardian and Victorian Oxford”. Primary School Hall, 7:30pm.

9^th – Marcham – Clare Sargent “The History of Radley College”. Marcham church, 7:45pm.

9^th – Thame – Tony Hadland “Raleigh-ing to the cause – the bicycle in wartime”. Church Barns, Church Road, 7:30pm.

10^th – Deddington – Simom Wenham “Salter’s Steamers and Leisure on the Thames”. Windmill Centre, Hempton Road, 7:30pm.

11^th – Banbury – David Robinson “Local clergy in the Middle Ages”. Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, 7:30pm.

11^th – Wootton & Dry Sandford – Corry Starling “Mapledurham Water Mill”. Wootton Community Centre, 7:30pm.

16^th – Clanfield and Bampton – Martin Way “The Golden Age of Coaching”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.

16^th – Iffley – Katherine Bradley “Votes for women in Oxfordshire”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.

17^th – Littlemore – Colin Carritt “Oxford and the Spanish Civil War”. Giles Road Community Centre, 7:30pm.

17^th – Vale of White Horse Industrial Archaeology Group – Bruce Hedge “The work of the Association for Industrial Archaeology”. Denchworth Village Hall, 7:30pm.

18^th – Abingdon – Peter Halman “The Thames from Oxford to Windsor: Shaping history through the centuries”. Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, 7:45pm.

18^th – Eynsham – Stanley Jenkins “The Witney Blanket Industry”. St Leonard’s Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

18^th – Longworth – Elizabeth Hazeldine “The Murderess Mary Blandy:  innocent dupe or cold-blooded poisoner?”. Southmoor & Kingston Bagpuize Village Hall, 7:30pm.

22^nd – Minster Lovell – Julie Ann Godson “The Water Gypsy: how a Thames fishergirl became a viscountess”. St Kenelm’s Hall, Brize Norton Road, 7:30pm.

22^nd – Oxfordshire Family History Society – Tony Hadland “Who were the Hildesleys?”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

23^rd – Enstone – annual dinner with a Dickensian theme. Daniel Tyler “Dickens, the Uncommercial Traveller”. Enstone Parish Hall, 7:30pm.

23^rd – Hanney – Tim Healey “Drove Roads in Oxfordshire and Beyond”. War Memorial Hall, 8:00pm.

23^rd – Kidlington – Liz Woolley “Beer, sausages and marmalade – Oxford food and drink in the 19^th century”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

24^th – Dorchester – Greg Stores “Afflictions and their Curious Remedies in Days Gone By”. Dorchester Village Hall, 7:30pm.

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15^th – Longworth – Bjorn Watson “Henry Marten, Longworth’s Regicide”. Special event to raise money for the restoration of Longworth’s church bells. Further information here. St Mary’s Church, 7:30pm.

18^th – Kennington – Geoffrey Tyack “The Buildings of Berkshire”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.

19^th – Cowley – Julie Ann Godson “The Water Gypsy: how a Thames fishergirl became a viscountess”. United Reformed Church, Temple Road, 8:00pm.

19^th – Enstone – Allan Ledger “A historic scandal at Blenheim Palace”. The Manor House, Church Enstone, 7:30pm.

20^th – Vale of White Horse Industrial Archaeology Group – Bruce Hedge “A report on the Association for Industrial Archaeology conference in Sussex in September 2015”. Denchworth Village Hall, 7:30pm.

21^st – Abingdon – Graham Carter “The Life of Alfred Williams, the Hammerman Poet (1877-1930)”. Northcourt Centre Hall, Northcourt Road, 7:45pm.

21^st – Eynsham – Roger Barnes “The History of Change Ringing”. St Leonard’s Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

25^th – Oxfordshire Family History Society – John Frearson “Was your Ancestor a Morris Dancer? – The History of Morris Dancing and the Morris Dancing Year”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

26^th – Hanney – Ian Wheeler “Four Generations at Fair Mile”. War Memorial Hall, 8:00pm.

26^th – Kidlington – John Lowe “Where are the boys of the village tonight? The story of Kidlington’s sacrifice in the Great War”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

26^th – Sutton Courtenay – Clare Simpson and Mary Thompson “Contrasting Schooldays in Sutton Courtenay from the Victorian School to Courtenay Lodge School”. Village Hall 7:30pm.

27^th – Dorchester – Denise Line “A Postcard from Dorchester”. Followed by the AGM. Dorchester Village Hall, 7:30pm.

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November 2015

3^rd – Henley – Gary Lock “Excavations at Marcham, Oxon – A big Roman and Iron Age Site”. Kings Arms Barns, Market Place, 7:45pm.

3^rd – Hook Norton – Bill King “The Upper Thames Patrol”. Baptist Church Hall, Netting Street, 7:30pm.

4^th – Otmoor – Tim Hallchurch “The Development of English Furniture since 1600”. Islip Village Hall, 8:00pm.

5^th – Eynsham – Martin Flatman “JRRTolkien: The life of an Unusual Oxford Don”. St Leonard’s Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

9^th – Chipping Norton – Stephen Wass “William Castle – a Notable Banbury Eccentric and Morris Fool”. Methodist Room, West Street, 7:30pm.

9^th – Goring & Streatley – Liz Woolley “The night-time haven of the wandering tribes: The common lodging house in Victorian England”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.

9^th – Radley – Stephen Barker “The City of Oxford during the Civil War 1642-46”. Primary School Hall, 7:30pm.

10^th – Marcham – Rosemary Kitto “The Hush-Hush Factory in Tubney Woods”. Marcham church, 7:45pm.

10^th – Sutton Courtenay – Ann Gould “The History of Abingdon”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.

12^th – Banbury – Kate Tiller “The Great War at Home”, preceded by a short film about Banbury’s WW1 munitions factory. Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, 7:00pm.

12^th – Wootton & Dry Sandford – Clare Sargent “A History of Radley College”. Wootton Community Centre, 7:30pm.

16^th – Adderbury – Michael Picker “Adderbury Song and Culture Revisited”. Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane, 7:30pm.

16^th – Bicester – John Leighfield “Putting Bicester on the Map: from Gough to Google”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.

16^th – Kennington – David Holt “Vincent: His Life and Art”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.

17^th – Clanfield and Bampton – Andrew Sargent “The Observer Observed: the Photography of John Gay”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.

17^th – Iffley – Elizabeth Wells “Iffley’s Alice and her legacy”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.

19^th – Sibfords – Dr Richard Buckley “Richard III: The King under the Car Park”. Village Hall, Sibford Gower, 8:00pm.

19^th – Whitchurch & Goring Heath – Clive Williams “Basildon revisited”. Goring Heath Parish Hall, 8:00pm.

23^rd – Oxfordshire Family History Society – Tony Hadland “Papists at the Manor – The Yates and Throckmortons of the Vale of White Horse”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

24^th – Enstone – Jeremy Burton “The Late Queen Mother’s Jewels”. Venue tbc (contact 01608 677246, carolawt@gmail.com), 7:30pm.

24^th – Hanney – Liz Woolley “The Coming of the Railway to Oxford”. War Memorial Hall, 8:00pm.

24^th– Kidlington – Bill Heine “A shark’s tale”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

25^th – Dorchester – Jane MacDonald “Feasts and Feasting”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.