Final 2023/4 Event: 8th May 2024
Thankyou to all who attended
Society AGM, followed by “From Our Archive”
Milton Village Hall from 7.20.
Stories from our archive using newly-discovered historic photographs, letters and oral history recordings
Agenda (PDF) | Chairmans Report (PDF)
Review coming soon
See below our outlined planned programme from September 2024 to May 2025 below and please keep an eye on this page for further news (including any changes) on our series of evening talks and other activities.
The Society in normal times meets once per month from September to May each year. Generally, all meetings are held in Milton-under-Wychwood Village Hall.
Meetings are usually held on the third Wednesday of the month from 7:30pm – 9:00pm.
Members – FREE Guests – £3 per person
Anyone with an interest in local history is very welcome to join us.
2024
11 Sep Edward Caswell : Finds Officer Portable Antiquities Scheme
9 Oct Julie Ann Godson: Our Boys 1914 – 1918
13 Nov 150 Years Cospatrick Disaster
11 Dec Tim Healey: Victorian Christmas
2025
8 Jan Jonathan Maisey and Joe Duxbury: Cotswold Quarries Part 2
12 Feb Liz Woolley: Child Labour in 19th Century Oxfordshire
12 Mar Paul Booth: Archaeology developments in the Chipping Norton area.
9 Apr Laurence Waters Chipping Norton Branch Line
14 May Society AGM followed by “From our Archive”
Evening Talks Reviewed: 2023/4 Season
Here are reviews of the talks in our 2023/4 season
- April 2024 Evening Talk: “Down in the Dumps” – How Oxford Helped Win World War Two
- March 2024 Evening Talk: Known Unto God – A Great War Detective Story
- February 2024 Evening Talk: The Effect of Enclosures on Common Right
- January 2024 Evening Talk: Cemeteries of Oxford : more than a Century of History
- November 2023 Evening Talk: Romans of Oxfordshire
- October 2023 Evening Talk: Drovers’ Roads in Oxfordshire and Beyond
- September 2023 Evening Talk: ‘Morris’ Motopolis