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

Speaker: 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 the approach adopted to combat the problem of vast amounts of untreated human waste and industrial effluent entering the Thames.