The full programme of talks at Radley History Club’s monthly meetings from September 2025 to September 2026 is now available. View details of each talk in the Events calendar on this website.
Date | Speaker | Talk title |
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2025 | ||
08-Sep | Simon Wenham | More than Three Men in a Boat: the rise and fall of pleasure boating on the Thames |
13-Oct | Liz Woolley | ‘Some may question its flavour, but none its potency’: a history of brewing in Oxford a history of brewing in Oxford |
10-Nov | Paul Booth | From Roman Britain to Early Anglo-Saxon England: archaeological evidence from Dorchester-on-Thames |
2026 | ||
12-Jan | Richard Dudding | Wick Hall: the story of a house and a family |
09-Feb | Steven Gunn | Everyday life and accidental death in 16th century Oxfordshire and Berkshire |
09-Mar | John Lowe | ‘Always Ready, Always Willing’: Fires and firefighting in the city of Oxford from 879 to 1974 |
13-Apr | Hubert Zawadzki | My Polish father’s experiences in WW2 from Gulag to Normandy and Scotland |
11-May | Mike Hurst | Tracks to trenches |
08-Jun | Stephen Wass | Garden archaeology: ‘not that kind of digging’ |
13-Jul | Victoria Bentata | Alice and the Dodo in Oxford |
08-Sep | Melanie King | Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough: taking the waters in Bath, Scarborough and Windsor Great Park |