Speaker: Dick Richards Dick is a 'Champion' and volunteer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which honours all those from the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars. His talk describes the Commission's beginnings, the design of its cemeteries and memorials, and its presence in Oxfordshire and the surrounding area. Meeting report […]

Speaker: Nick Millea Six volumes of the British Historic Towns Atlas series telling the fascinating history of Britain's historic towns have already been published by the Historic Towns Trust. Volume VII, the Oxford atlas, is due to be published in autumn 2020. Nick is Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library and a trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. Meeting […]

Speaker: 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 by listening to a Latin hymn sung from the top of Magdalen College tower. Note: the meeting is on a Tuesday evening as the second […]

Speaker: 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 Guide. The Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter and the popular television series based on them and starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately are set […]

Speaker: 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 an important role in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. An important site for Spitfires in Oxfordshire was the repair unit at Witney Aerodrome