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9^th – Didcot – Speaker tbc “Herbs in Medicine”. Northbourne Centre, Church Street, 7:30pm.

10^th – Mark Davies “Oxford’s Historic Waterways – from Legend to Leisure”. Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, 8:00pm.

12^th – Steeple Aston – David Boswell “Important Oxfordshire Churches”. Village Hall, Fir Lane, 4:00pm.

13^th – Chipping Norton – Liz Woolley “How the Coming of the Railway Changed Oxford”. Methodist Church, West Street, 7:30pm.

13^th – Goring & Streatley – Simon Draper “Recent Findings About the History of Newington”. Goring Village Hall, 8:00pm.

13^th – Radley – Jessica Feinstein “Building your Family Tree: Pleasures and Pitfalls”. School Hall, 7:30pm.

14^th – Marcham – Peter Barker “The Otmoor Year”. Marcham church, 7:45pm.

15^th – Bloxham – Bill King “On Two Wheels: the Fascinating Story of the Bicycle”. Jubilee Hall, off Brickle Lane, 7:30pm.

15^th – Littlemore – Speakers from the Garsington Local History Group “Artistic and Historical Lives at Garsington Manor”. Littlemore Community Centre, Giles Road, 7:00 for 7:30pm.

16^th – Abingdon – David Beasley “The History of Howbery Park and its Connection with Jethro Tull”. Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, 7:45 pm.

16^th – Eynsham – Martin Harris and Pamela Richards “Thirty Years of the Eynsham Record (includes AGM and refreshments). Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

16^th– Sibfords – David Beaumont “Edge Hill and Beyond”. Village Hall, Sibford Gower, 8:00pm.

16^th – Whitchurch & Goring Heath – Elizabeth Hazeldine “The wilful murder of Kate Laura Dungey in Henley on Thames, 1893”. Whitchurch Village Hall, 8:00pm.

17^th– Finstock – Tony Cooper “The Wychwood Census”. Village Hall, 8:00 pm.

19^th – Wychwoods – Tony Hadland “The History of the Bicycle and Raleigh”. Shipton-under-Wychwood Village Hall, 7:30pm.

20^th – Adderbury – Barry Davis “History of the Bells and Bell Ringing in Adderbury”. Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane, 7:30pm.

20^th – Bicester – Rowena Archer “Travelling in the Middle Ages. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.

20^th – Kennington – Chris Butterfield “Oxford Bus Museum”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.

21^st – Clanfield & Bampton – Paddy Walsh “The Indian Mutiny of 1857”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.

21^st – Cowley – Liz Woolley “Children and War: Experiences of the Second World War in Oxfordshire”. Temple Cowley United Reformed Church, Temple Road, 8:00pm.

21^st – Iffley – Vivien Greene Memorial Lecture: Kate Tiller “Remembrance and Community – War Memorials and Local History”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.

22^nd – Dorchester –Nick Dudley “The History of Surgery”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.

27^th – Oxfordshire Family History Society – Mark Stevens “Fair Mile Revealed: the Victorian Asylum”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

28^th – Hanney – Stephen Barker “Oxfordshire on the Home Front 1914-18”. War Memorial Hall, East Hanney, 8:00pm.

28^th – Kidlington – Martin Greenwood “Charles’ Painted Ladies”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

30^th – Aston – AGM followed by Andrew Long & Martin Bowley “Cote Road and North Street”. Fellowship Centre, Cote Road, 7:30pm.

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12^th – Banbury – Stephen Wass “A Way with Water: Water Resources and the Life of an Eighteenth Century Park, Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire”. Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, 7:30pm.

12^th – Didcot – Eugene Coyle “The Civil War in Oxfordshire”. Northbourne Centre, Church Street, 7:30pm.

12^th – Wootton & Dry Sandford –  Mark Davies “Alice in Wonderland: Oxford ‘Alice’ and the pre-Raphaelites”. Community Centre, Lamborough Hill, Wootton, 7.30pm.

13^th – Charlbury – Conrad Keating “Great Medical Discoveries: 800 Years of Oxford Innovation”. Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, 8:00pm.

16^th – Bicester – Chris Day “A History of the English Parish”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.

16^th – Kennington – Liz Woolley “Children’s Experiences of the Second World War in Oxfordshire”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.

17^th – Adderbury – Deborah Hayter “Ridge and Furrow’ – What’s it All About?” Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane, 7:30pm.

17^th – Cowley – Edward Dixon “Women on the Home Front”. Temple Cowley United Reformed Church, Temple Road, 8:00pm.

17^th – Iffley – Christine Gadsby “Blenheim – Battle for Europe”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.

18^th – Bloxham – Katherine Bradley “Votes for Women: the History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Oxfordshire, 1870-1918”. Jubilee Hall, off Brickle Lane, 7:30pm.

18^th – Clanfield & Bampton – Alastair Lack “Oxfordshire Country Houses”. Bampton Village Hall., 7:30pm.

18^th – Littlemore – John Stewart “Shell Shock in WWI Oxford”. Littlemore Community Centre, Giles Road, 7:00 for 7:30pm.

19^th – Abingdon – Maureen Mellor “Pots and Food: Do Medieval Pottery Studies Add to the Enjoyment of Eating and Drinking?” Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, 7:45 pm.

19^th – Eynsham – Steve Parrinder “The Stones of Eynsham Abbey”. Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

19^th – Sibfords – AGM followed by Chris Mason “Swift Stories”. Village Hall, Sibford Gower, 8:00pm.

19^th– Wychwoods – Bob Harris “The Early Life of Lord Nuffield”. Milton-under-Wychwood Village Hall, 7:30pm.

20^th – Finstock – Stephen Barker “Oxfordshire – the Home Front 1914 – 1918”. Village Hall, 8:00 pm.

23^rd – Oxfordshire Family History Society – Anthony Adolph “Joining the Dots and Bringing it all Together – Connecting up Normal Genealogical Research, Origins of Surnames, and DNA”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

24^th – Enstone – Victoria Huxley “Jane Austen’s Local Connections and the Lives of Regency Women”. Venue tbc (contact 01608 677246, carolawt@gmail.com), 7:30pm.

24^th – Hanney – Malcolm Graham “Victorian North Oxford – Suburban Paradise or Leafy Sobriety?”. War Memorial Hall, East Hanney, 8:00pm.

24^th – Sutton Courtenay – Simon Wenham “The History of Salters Steamers.” The Village Hall, 7:30pm.

25^th – Dorchester – Greg Stores “Sleeping through the Ages: an Historical Account of Human Sleep”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.

26^th – Aston – Moira Byast “Taste the Past”. Fellowship Centre, Cote Road, 7:30pm.

31^st – Kidlington – Brian Lowe “Odder Oxford”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

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5^th – City of Oxford Society of Model Engineers – Donald Gray “The Restoration of Wheatley Mill”. COSME Club House, Cutteslowe Park, Oxford, 8:00pm.

5^th– Eynsham – Steve Lord “Bonnie Prince Charlie”. Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

9^th – Chipping Norton – Simon Wenham “The History of Salters Steamers in Oxford”. Methodist Church, West Street, 7:30pm.

9^th – Goring & Streatley – Tony Hadland “The History of the Bicycle”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.

9^th – Radley – Members’ interests. School Hall, 7:30pm.

10^th – Marcham – Tim Healey “Sex, Drink & Death in 17^th Century Oxfordshire”. Marcham church, 7:45pm.

12^th – Banbury – David Stuttard “The Romans Who Shaped Britain”. Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, 7:30pm.

12^th – Didcot – Martin Way “The Agincourt Archer”. Northbourne Centre, Church Street, 7:30pm.

12^th – Wootton & Dry Sandford –  Michael Bartlett “Motoring and Transport in the Forties”. Community Centre, Lamborough Hill, Wootton, 7.30pm.

13^th – Charlbury – Martin Greenwood “The Role of the Country Carrier”. Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, 8:00pm.

16^th – Adderbury – Valerie Burton “Witney Blankets”. Methodist Chapel, Chapel Lane, 7:30pm.

16^th – Bicester – Pat Snelson “Bricks & Building Materials in Bicester’s Buildings”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.

16^th – Enstone – Evening of poetry, prose and music with the theme of the history of courtship. Buffet dinner to be included. Venue tbc (contact 01608 677246, carolawt@gmail.com), 7:30pm.

17^th – Clanfield & Bampton – Bill King “The River Thames at War”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.

17^th – Cowley – Roger Gelder and George Ross “The Search for Oxford’s Medieval Wall”. Temple Cowley United Reformed Church, Temple Road, 8:00pm.

17^th – Iffley – Alastair Lack “Oxford in The Civil War”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.

18^th – Bloxham – Shaun Morley “The Oxfordshire Swing Riots of 1830”. Jubilee Hall, off Brickle Lane, 7:30pm.

19^th – Abingdon – Mark Cornwall “Traitors and Treason in the Great War”. Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road, 7:45 pm.

19^th– Eynsham – Graham  Bannell “Personal  Perspectives  on the Revitalisation of Older Buildings”. Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.

20^th– Finstock – Andrew Sargent “The Prehistory of the Upper Thames”. Village Hall, 8:00 pm.

23^rd – Oxfordshire Family History Society – Tony Hadland “From Trevithick to Barnes Wallis: Tracing a Family of Cornish Engineers, from Camborne to Brooklands, via the Sewers of London”. Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, 8:00pm.

24^th – Hanney – Caroline Jackson “Found in an Oxfordshire Manor House, the Diaries of General Primrose 1819-1892”. War Memorial Hall, East Hanney, 8:00pm.

24^th – Kidlington – Alastair Lack “A Light Hearted Look at the History of Oxford University”. St John Ambulance Hall, High Street, 7:50pm.

25^th – Dorchester – Kemble Croft “All the World’s a Stage: the History of our Theatres from Shakespeare’s Stratford to West End Musicals”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.

26^th – Aston – Dan Spencer “Metal Detecting in Aston”. Fellowship Centre, Cote Road, 7:30pm.

26^th – Appleton with Eaton – Julie Ann Godson “The Water Gypsy: How a Thames Fishergirl Became a Viscountess”. Community Hall, 2:00pm. TBC.