Radley News is the name of the current monthly village magazine. It had three predecessor journals (to our knowledge), all published monthly under the auspices of Radley Church but with wider village news too. The timing and reason(s) for the changes in title and scope are not clear.
The Club’s holdings of these three series is far from compete but what it does have provides a flavour of the activities in the village in their era plus various useful pieces of information.
The collection is the result of donations made by various people to the Club for its archive, in some cases following the death of a relative who lived in Radley.
Church Monthly, Radley Parish Magazine
Radley History Club has editions from 1895 to 1900 in its journals archive. This series was a mixture of Radley church/village news and wider religious material that seems to have been provided to parishes on a national basis. The original material is in good condition and held in volumes bound together for each year. Only the pages with Radley news have been digitised.
| Year with link to PDF | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1894 | August only; Called ‘The Gospeller’ and appears to be a predecessor of ‘Church Monthly’ |
| 1895 | All months (printed copies are in a bound volume) |
| 1896 | All months (printed copies are in a bound volume) |
| 1897 | Issue for each month except February and March, which may not have been issued. From May, the bound volume also includes the parish of Marcham. |
| 1898 | All months. Bound volume also includes the parish of Marcham. |
| 1899 | All months. Bound volume also includes the parish of Marcham. |
| 1900 | All months. Bound volume also includes the parish of Marcham. |
Radley Parish Magazine
Radley History Club has editions from 1945 to 1956, with material now limited to Radley matters and containing several pages of paid-for adverts for local companies. The original material is in good condition and held in volumes bound together by a six-year period, with an issue for each month.
NB The PDFs have been compressed to reduce size of the file but are still of the order of 10MB.
| Year with link to PDF | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1945 | Complete |
| 1946 | Complete |
| 1947 | Complete |
| 1945 | Complete |
| 1949 | Complete |
| 1950 | Complete |
| 1951 | Complete |
| 1952 | Complete |
| 1953 | Complete |
| 1954 | Complete |
| 1955 | Complete |
| 1956 | Complete |
Radley (News) Supplement
The content and format of this series were essentially the same as the early editions of Radley News. The last issue was in December 1970 and was numbered 143, suggesting this series started in 1959. The collection is limited with very incomplete coverage and some of the typed pages are in poor condition.
| Year with link to PDF | Notes |
|---|---|
| 1963 | December only |
| 1964 | January only |
| 1965 | February and October only |
| 1966 | July and September only |
| 1967 | May and December only |
| 1968 | May and November only |
| 1969 | January, August and October only; August missing p.5 & p.20; October missing pp.3-4 |
| 1970 | June and September only |
Read issues held by Radley History Club of the current village magazine called Radley News