April 2025
21st – Cumnor – Martin Buckland “Canal history: The world to Wiltshire from 502BC to the present day”. Old School, 7:30pm.
23rd – Dorchester on Thames – Marie-Louise Kerr “Blue Plaques in South Oxfordshire”. Dorchester Abbey Guest House, 7:30pm.
23rd – Wolvercote – Mark Davies “Our Canal, Wolvercote to Oxford”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
24th – Aston – AGM followed by Stephen Wass “The Peculiar History of Fishponds and Fishing in Oxfordshire”. Fellowship Centre, Cote Road, 7:30pm.
24th – Charlbury – AGM plus Neil Clennell “Wychwood Forest Trust: Progress in Nature Recovery”. Memorial Hall, 7:30pm.
24th – Launton – John Tyler “Reading the Countryside”. Parish Hall, 7:30pm.
25th – Benson – Graham Twemlow “The Great British Poster Artists: The Golden Age of Posters in Britain”. Parish Hall, 7:00pm.
28th – Marcham – Paul Whitton “George Owen, Royal Physician”. Marcham Centre, Barrow Close, 7:15pm.
28th – Middleton Cheney – Gill White “Bess of Hardwick and Hardwick Hall”. All Saints Church, 7:30pm.
28th – Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS) – Solving Brickwalls – members evening. On-line, 7:15pm (members only).
28th – Tackley – Anni Byard “Tackley: The dig at Gibralter Point”. Memorial Hall, 7:30pm.
29th – Adderbury – AGM followed by Bill King “Yesterday’s Childhood”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
29th – Kidlington – John Naylor “Knossos, myth and reality”. Baptist Church, 7:30pm.
May 2025
1st – Eynsham – Stephen Barker “The English Civil War in Eight Paintings”. St Leonard’s Church Hall, Thames Street, 7:30pm.
6th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Rupert Hague Holmes “Operation FLAVIUS – Death on the Rock”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
6th – Henley – Liz Woolley “Children and War: Children’s Experiences of the Second World War in Oxfordshire”. The Chantry House, St Mary’s Church, Hart Street, 7:30pm.
6th – Hook Norton – AGM followed by Andrew Lewis “The village wheelwright”. Baptist Church Hall, Netting Street, 7:30pm.
7th – Enstone – Jane Potter “The Life of Wilfred Owen: WW1 Poet”. St Kenelm’s Church, Church Enstone, 7:00pm.
7th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Ruth Buckley “St Frideswide and the Early History of Christ Church”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm.
8th – Deddington – Robert Evans “The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques scheme”. Primary School, 7:30pm.
8th – Didcot – Chris Webber “Pendon Museum, bringing the past to life”. Northbourne Centre, Church Street, 7:30pm.
10th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Mike Tickner “The Second World War Burma Campaign: Beyond VE”. 2:00pm. Tickets £12, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
12th – Chalgrove – Stephen Wass “The peculiar history of fish ponds and fishing in Oxfordshire including Ascot Park”. John Hampden Hall, 7:45pm.
12th – Chipping Norton – Matthew Armitage “Tooley’s Boatyard, Banbury”. Methodist Church Hall, West Street, 2:00pm.
12th – Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS) – Carol Anderson “All that glitters: Woodstock’s cut steel industry”. On-line, 7:15pm (members only).
12th – Radley – John Leighfield “Putting Radley on the map: from Gough to Google”. Church Room adjacent to Church of St James the Great, 7:30pm.
12th – Weston on the Green – Paul Barnett “The Purton Ships Graveyard”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
13th – Thame – Marie-Louise Kerr “Famous Local Folk – Blue Plaques of South Oxfordshire”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
14th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Robert Lynam “Bill Slim and Burma”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
14th – Florence Park, Oxford – Simon Wenham “The history of the Morris Works, Cowley”. Florence Park Community Centre, East Oxford, 7:30pm.
14th – Stanford in the Vale – Antonia Keaney “Odd Men & Necessary Women – Servants at Blenheim”. Large Village Hall, 7:30pm.
14th – Wychwoods – AGM and “From the Archive”. Milton under Wychwood Village Hall, 7:30pm.
15th – Abingdon – Ed Caswell “The Portable Antiquities Service with Especial Reference to Local Finds”. Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road. 7:45pm.
15th – Longworth – Gillian Cane “The Mitford Sisters”. Southmoor Village Hall, 7:15pm.
15th – Sibfords – Gillian White “The History of the Hugely Huggable Teddy Bear”. Sibford Gower Village Hall, 7:30pm.
15th – Whitchurch & Goring Heath – “From the archives. Jane Austen’s local connections and WW2 Home Guard”. Goring Heath Parish Hall, 2:30pm.
16th – Finstock – Ben Long “History of Falconry – with flying display dependant on the weather”. Village Hall, 8:00pm.
19th – Adderbury – Hywel Lloyd “The story of the discovery and ascent of Everest”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
19th – Bicester – Stephen Wass “Garden Archaeology – a different kind of digging”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
19th – Goring Gap – Aldon Ferguson “Interpretation of aerial maps in WW2 and beyond at RAF Medmenham”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
19th – Kennington – Lizzy Rowe “Christopher Wren’s Oxford”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
20th – Clanfield & Bampton – Tim Healey “St Giles’ Fair”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.
20th – Iffley – Alastair Lack “Oxfordshire Country Houses”. Church Hall, Church Way, 7:30pm.
21st – Bloxham – Karen and Bret Wiles “World War II rationing and Cooking for Victory: a fair share for all”. Jubilee Park Hall, Barley Close, 7:30pm.
21st – Cropredy – Tony Mawbey “Treasures of Upton House”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
21st – Harwell – Adrian Rance McGregor “St Matthews – a church in the Landscape”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
21st – Littlemore – Katie Hambrook “Littlemore Priory”. Community Centre, Giles Road, 7:30pm.
26th – Marcham – Members’ Evening. Marcham Centre, Barrow Close, 7:15pm.
27th – Kidlington – Shaun Todd “The history and etiquettes of afternoon tea. What you may not know!”. Baptist Church, 7:30pm.
28th – Dorchester on Thames – Hugh Macmillan “Dorchester’s ‘Great Meadow’: a literary and cultural history”. Dorchester Abbey Guest House, 7:30pm.
29th – Burford – George Lambrick “The Rollright Stones, a reflection on their archaeological, folklore and cultural value”. Baptist Church, Witney Street, 7:30pm.
29th – Launton – Martin Sirot Smith “Daily Life in Tudor Times”. Parish Hall, 7:30pm.
30th – Benson – Christina Hardyment “Imagining Ewelme’s Greatest Lady: Alyce Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, 1404-1475”. Parish Hall, 7:00pm.
June 2025
2nd – Chalgrove – Andrew Long “Oxfordshire place names”. John Hampden Hall, 7:45pm.
2nd – South Stoke – Shaun Todd “The History of Afternoon Tea and its Etiquette”. Village Hall 7:30pm.
3rd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – David Bickerton “Sinking of the Bismark”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
3rd – Henley – Heather Adams “Frankenstein and Ozymandias: Discovering the Shelleys of Marlow”. The Chantry House, St Mary’s Church, Hart Street, 7:30pm.
4th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – AGM followed by Naomi Bergmans “A ‘Mammoth’ Task: highlights from the Conservation Laboratory, Oxfordshire Museum Service”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:00pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
9th – Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS) – Michael Riordan “Family and Local History in Oxford College Archives”. On-line, 7:15pm (members only).
9th – Radley – Mike Evans “The Fitzharry’s Estate – from medieval knights to atomic spies”. Church of St James the Great, 7:30pm.
10th – Thame – Lucy Lawrence “Recent Archaeological discoveries in Buckinghamshire”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
11th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Mike Nicholas “The Battle of the Bulge”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
11th – Florence Park, Oxford – Local authors “Oxford Crime: how to interweave plotting, characterisation and the city streetscape”. Florence Park Community Centre, East Oxford, 7:30pm.
11th – Stanford in the Vale – Stephen Barker “Oxford in the English Civil War”. Large Village Hall, 7:30pm.
12th – Deddington – Clive Evans “Deddington Primary School and its history”. Primary School, 7:30pm.
14th – Hornton – Traditional afternoon tea plus Melanie King “How the English fell in love with tea”. Pavilion, time tbc.
16th – Adderbury – Our village: an open meeting to share reminiscences and archive material”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
16th – Bicester – Simon Wenham “Poverty, Pestilence and Public Health in Victorian Britain”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
16th – Kennington – Marie-Louise Kerr “Famous Local Folk: the people behind the blue plaques of South Oxfordshire”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
17th – Clanfield & Bampton – AGM and light entertainment from Richard Martin”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.
18th – Cropredy – Bill King “Industrial Archaeology in Your Attic, Garage and Shed”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
18th – Enstone – Helen Castle “The Great Rollright Shepherd, Richard Widdows, who died in 1910 aged 104”. St Kenelm’s Church, Church Enstone, 7:00pm.
19th – Abingdon – Open evening with presentations by members. Northcourt Centre, Northcourt Road. 7:45pm.
19th – Sibfords – Screening of the Sibfords Millenium Pageant. Sibford Gower Village Hall, 7:30pm.
23rd – Marcham – Peter Barker “Birds of Otmoor”. Marcham Centre, Barrow Close, 7:15pm.
23rd – Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS) – Richard Holt “Apprentice records: History and sources with a case study”. On-line, 7:15pm (members only).
24th – Kidlington – Bill King “WW1, part 3 and beyond”. Baptist Church, 7:30pm.
26th – Burford – Richard Martin “Limestone, the ‘other’ material of the Cotswolds”. Baptist Church, Witney Street, 7:30pm.
26th – Launton – Gillian Cane “Bletchley Park”. Parish Hall, 7:30pm.
July 2025
1st – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Alina Nowobilska “VE Day 1945 – Poland under the Russians”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
2nd – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Melanie King “Cold Comforts: The Hidden Ice Houses of Oxfordshire”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
8th – Thame – Eve Bacon “Spices and Medieval society”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
9th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Tony Bray “Manna from Heaven – The Story of Air Re-Supply”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
9th – Florence Park, Oxford – Jeremy Smith “Oxford pub histories”. Florence Park Community Centre, East Oxford, 7:30pm.
12th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Ross King “EH Shepard: Italy, the Great War and a Canadian Bear”. 2:00pm. Tickets £12, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
14th – Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS) – Ian Everest “Flanders and the Somme – then and now”. On-line, 7:15pm (members only).
14th – Radley – Mark Davies “What a liberty!”. Church of St James the Great, 7:30pm.
16th – Cropredy – Alastair Lack “CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
16th – Stonesfield – Emma Nicholls and Duncan Murdock “Jurassic Trackways”. Primary School, High Street, 7:30pm.
21st – Adderbury – Mary Sutcliffe “A history of Sezincote House and Gardens”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
24th – Burford – Graham Kew “The history of Minster Lovell”. Baptist Church, Witney Street, 7:30pm.
29th – Kidlington – Gillian Cane “The Miracle of Bletchley Park”. Baptist Church, 7:30pm.
August 2025
9th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Derek Plews “A Brilliant Little Victory: the Asiago Plateau, Italy 1918”. 2:00pm. Tickets £12, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
12th – Thame – Members’ evening. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
13th – Florence Park, Oxford – Mick Conmy “The Irish Potato Famine and me”. Florence Park Community Centre, East Oxford, 7:30pm.
September 2025
3rd – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Nicole Perry-Bradford “Oxfordshire Museum Highlights”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
4th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Melanie King “Shadows and Silk: The World of the Female Spy”. 7:30pm. Tickets £15, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
8th – Radley – Simon Wenham “More than three men in a boat: the rise and fall of pleasure boating on the Thames”. Church of St James the Great, 7:30pm.
9th – Thame – Sarah Somerville “Shaw House: Over 400 years of history”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
15th – Adderbury – Barrie Trinder “The Village Carrier”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
15th – Goring Gap – Nick Millea “The Gough map: getting about in medieval Britain”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
15th – Kennington – Deborah Hayter “Harvest rituals”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
17th – Cropredy – Helen Frost “The Women’s Land Army in the First World War”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
17th – Enstone – Jo Willett “Sarah Siddons: The First Celebrity Actress”. St Kenelm’s Church, Church Enstone, 7:00pm.
17th – Harwell – David Gahan “A history of Hanney”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
18th – Longworth – Marie-Louse Kerr “Oxfordshire on Canvas”. Southmoor Village Hall, 7:15pm.
18th – Sibfords – Mark Davies “Oxford Castle: 17th– and 18th-century Crimes, Escapes and Punishments”. Sibford Gower Village Hall, 7:30pm.
18th – Whitchurch & Goring Heath – Catherine Sampson “A Stroll through Berkshire’s graveyards”. Goring Heath Parish Hall, 2:30pm.
24th – Dorchester on Thames – Viviane Quirke “The Importance of Place: the Development of Penicillin in WWII in Oxfordshire”. Dorchester Abbey Guest House, 7:30pm.
25th – Burford – Carol Anderson “The Great Exodus of the 1870s, featuring agricultural labourers from Fulbrook, Taynton and Burford who emigrated to Australasia and beyond”. Baptist Church, Witney Street, 7:30pm.
25th – Launton – Dick Richards “Commonwealth War Graves Commission”. Parish Hall, 7:30pm.
26th – Benson – Helen Cresswell “Roman Britain and its links to Benson”. Parish Hall, 7:00pm.
October 2025
1st – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Colin Hill “Swalcliffe Barn: Behind the Scenes”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
7th – Henley – Paul Lacey “Bus Operators of Henley and Marlow”. The Chantry House, St Mary’s Church, Hart Street, 7:30pm.
7th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Ross Beadle “The Origins of the Schlieffen Plan”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
9th – Hornton – Deborah Hayter “Lost villages of Oxfordshire”. Pavilion, 7:30pm.
11th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Ashley Jackson “Oxford’s War 1939-1945”. 2:00pm. Tickets £12, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
15th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Michael Philips “Hitler’s Gunner Generals”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
15th – Cropredy – Stephen Barker “A Watershed: Mahatma Gandhi”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
15th – Wolvercote – AGM followed by Alastair Lack “Wolvercote Cemetery”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
14th – Thame – Stephen Wass “The archaeology of Stowe Landscape Gardens”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
15th – Enstone – Liz Woolley “Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-39”. St Kenelm’s Church, Church Enstone, 7:00pm.
15th – Harwell – Katherine Watsom “Crime, Medicine and Science in History”. Village Hall, 7:30pm.
16th – Longworth – Andrew Long “Naming of Oxfordshire Pubs”. Southmoor Village Hall, 7:15pm.
16th – Sibfords – Oswyn Murray “The Battle of Edgehill, and the Sibford Gallows”. Sibford Gower Village Hall, 7:30pm.
20th – Adderbury – Muriel Pilkington “The Lost Villages of Oxfordshire”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
20th – Bicester – Pete Seaward “House Arrest in Woodstock”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
20th – Goring Gap – Timothy Walker “The history of Harcourt Aboretum”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
20th – Kennington – Stephen Barker “Warrior women of the Civil War”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
21st – Clanfield & Bampton – Rosemary Honour Smith “Further history of Clanfield”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.
22nd – Dorchester on Thames – Simon Wenham “The Compilation of the Oxford Dictionary”. Dorchester Abbey Guest House, 7:30pm.
30th – Burford – David Cohen “Conversation around the archive images and reflections of old Burford”. Audience participation encouraged. Baptist Church, Witney Street, 7:30pm.
31st – Benson – “The Work of the Air Ambulance”. Parish Hall, 7:00pm.
November 2025
4th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Spencer Jones “Boer War – Scorched Earth”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
4th – Henley – John Rogers “Kings, Boxes and Dots: A Brief History of the Post Office and Royal Mail”. The Chantry House, St Mary’s Church, Hart Street, 7:30pm.
5th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Alice Foster “World War I: Paintings and Poetry”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
6th – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock – Mike Montagu & Antonia Keaney “Churchill Remembered”. Marlborough Room, Blenheim Palace, 6:30pm. Tickets £45, book on-line at https://www.sofo.org.uk/whats-on/.
11th – Thame – Stephen Barker “Oxfordshire in the British Civil Wars, 1642-51”. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
12th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Anthony Tucker Jones “Churchill: the Cold War Warrior”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
12th – Enstone – Mark Abrey “St Kenelm’s church records, family histories and old tombstones”. St Kenelm’s Church, Church Enstone, 7:00pm.
17th – Adderbury – Tim Healey “A Victorian Christmas”. The Institute, 7:30pm.
17th – Bicester – Matthew Hathaway “Bicester in World War 2”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
17th – Goring Gap – Stuart Ackland “Oxford maps”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
17th – Kennington – Bill King “Women of World War Two”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
18th – Clanfield & Bampton – Andrew Wright “All at Sea”. Carter Institute, Clanfield, 7:30pm.
19th – Cropredy – Marie Lou Kerr “The woman who would be Queen: Empress Matilda, the anarchy and her links to Oxford Castle and Wallingford”. Village Hall, 7:00pm.
20th – Longworth – Stephen Wass “The Peculiar History of Fishponds and Fishing in Oxfordshire and around”. Southmoor Village Hall, 7:15pm.
20th – Sibfords – Tim Healey “A 17th-century Christmas”. Sibford Gower Village Hall, 7:30pm.
26th – Dorchester on Thames – Patsy Smith and Denise Line “Education in Dorchester on Thames”. Dorchester Abbey Guest House, 7:30pm.
27th – Launton – Pat Tucker’s “Launton Quiz”. Parish Hall, 7:30pm.
December 2025
2nd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Christina Holstein “Verdun – The German Offensive 1916”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
2nd – Henley – Adrian Cox “Excavations at Greys Court”. The Chantry House, St Mary’s Church, Hart Street, 7:30pm.
2nd – Thame – AGM plus the Launton Handbell Ringers. Thame Barns Centre, Church Road, 7:30pm.
3rd – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Colin Harrison “William Turner of Oxford and Shipton-on-Cherwell”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
5th – Benson – Mike Brook “A Christmas Miscellany: Humorous performance pieces on a seasonal theme”. Parish Hall, 7:00pm.
10th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Gary Sheffield – topic tbc. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
10th – Florence Park, Oxford – Ian Goldin “A history of migration”. Florence Park Community Centre, East Oxford, 7:30pm.
15th – Goring Gap – Rob Clarke “The Maiwand lion in the Forbury, Reading”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
15th – Kennington – Tim Healey “Victorian Christmas”. Methodist Church, Upper Road, 7:45pm.
January 2026
7th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Lizzy Rowe “John Piper in Oxfordshire”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
14th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Katherine Carter “Churchill’s Citadel – Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
19th – Goring Gap – Tim Healey “A history of St Giles Fair, Oxford”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
February 2026
3rd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Taylor Downing “1983 – The World at the Brink”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
4th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – Antonia Keaney “Lights, Camera, Action: Behind the Scenes at Blenheim Palace”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
11th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Gordon Rogers “Churchill’s Toyshop”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
16th – Bicester – John May “The Role of the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
16th – Goring Gap – Sue Ellis “Not all beer and skittles”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
March 2026
3rd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) –John Curatola “US Eighth Air Force over Europe in WW2”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
4th – Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum (Woodstock) – David Meara “50 Gems of Oxfordshire”. The Coach House, Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, 7:30pm. Also available on-line; e-mail friendsoftheoxfordshiremuseum@gmail.com for further details.
11th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Geoffrey Vesey Holt “The Last Hundred Days – The Battle of Amiens to the Hindenburg Line”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
16th – Goring Gap – Richard Marks “The history of the Great Western Railway in Berkshire”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
April 2026
3rd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) –Paul Whittle “River Kwai Railway – The True Story”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
15th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Chris Leworthy “Operation Chastise – The Dambusters Raid”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
20th – Goring Gap – Malcolm Summers “Greyfriars, Reading: prison to parish church”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
May 2026
18th – Goring Gap – Mike Cooper “The defence of Reading from the Vikings to the Civil War”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
June 2026
2nd – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – James Porter “German Occupation of the Channel Islands”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
10th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Mike Tickner “A Head Ache and a Heart Ache. The Indian Army at Partition”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
July 2026
7th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Robert Verkaik “Arnhem and the Cambridge Spies”. On-line talk, 7:30pm; e-mail zoom@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
15th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Guy Walters “Berlin Games – How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
October 2026
19th – Goring Gap – Katrina Cooper “For God and the Cause: soldiery in the English Civil War through the lens of the Sealed Knot”. Goring Village Hall, 2:30pm.
November 2026
11th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Linda Parker “Rudolf Hess – His Flight to England”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
16th – Bicester – Nigel Walton “1918 – Peace & Remembrance in Bicester”. Clifton Centre, Ashdene Road, 7:30pm.
December 2026
15th – British Modern Military History Society (Woodcote) – Helen Fry “The White Lady – The story of British Intelligence Networks behind German Lines”. Woodcote Village Hall, 7:30pm; e-mail info@bmmhs.org or check www.bmmhs.org for more details.
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