CHANGE OF VENUE What a Liberty! Memorable moments along Oxford’s ancient boundaries

Church Room, Radley Church Road, Radley

Speaker: Mark Davies Mark presents dramatic and amusing incidents from five centuries of ceremonial circuits by Oxford's mayors of the city's boundaries which were mainly defined by its waterways. Although serious in intent, numerous pub stops often resulted in ‘high jinks’ and ‘irresponsible jollity’. Mark is an Oxford local historian, author, public speaker, guide, and […]

More than Three Men in a Boat: the rise and fall of pleasure boating on the Thames

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Simon Wenham Simon looks at the changes in the use of the river Thames above London over the past 150 years and why its popularity for recreational boating grew dramatically and then declined. Simon is a member of the part-time tutor panel of Oxford University’s Continuing Education Department, where he teaches courses on the Victorian […]