Speaker meeting
CANCELLED – Pagans & Puritans: The Story of May Morning in Oxford
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Tim Healey Tim is a freelance writer, broadcaster and musician. His talk describes the history of the Oxford tradition of gathering at 6am to celebrate the first day of May […]
CANCELLED – The Oxford of Inspector Morse
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Alastair Lack Alastair read history at University College Oxford. After a career working for the BBC World Service, he now lives in Oxford where he is a Green Badge […]
CANCELLED – Spitfires over Oxfordshire and the D Day Landings
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Nic Vanderpeet Nic is the Learning and Outreach Officer at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. The Spitfire, the famous British fighter aircraft of the Battle of Britain, later played […]
CANCELLED – “The Great Stink”! Engineers, Sewerage Systems and the Victorian Battle against Dirt
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Tom Crook Tom is a lecturer on modern British history at Oxford Brookes University. His talk discusses the notorious 'Great Stink' of summer 1858 in London, its causes and […]
ZOOM TALK: The Wilts and Berks Canal: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Martin Buckland This historic canal linked the Kennet and Avon Canal near Trowbridge in Wiltshire with the River Thames near Abingdon. Martin's talk tells us something of its history, […]