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2024

November 30th | Jim Pearse – Farmer and Entertainer (Editorial, Personal Memories)
November 19th | Letter from New Zealand to the People of the Wychwoods (Editorial)
November 13th | Our November 2024 Evening Talk: The Cospatrick 150th Anniversary Reflections (Talks and Events)
November 2nd | Cospatrick 150th Anniversary Commemorations (Editorial, Talks and Events)
October 9th | Our October 2024 Evening Talk: Our Boys 1914 – 1918 (Talks and Events)
September 12th | Wychwoods Harvest-home and Farming Life: Our Latest Library Exhibition (Editorial)
September 11th | Our September 2024 Evening Talk: The Portable Antiquities Scheme (Talks and Events)
August 27th | The Society at Shipton Fete 2024 (Editorial)
July 26th | Fetes and Festivities: Our Summer Library Photo Display (Editorial)
July 25th | Dr Kate Tiller OBE (Editorial)
July 16th | The Society and the Fete at Milton (Editorial, Talks and Events)
July 2nd | Visit to North Leigh Roman Villa (Visits and Excursions)
June 23rd | Family History Day at Ascott under Wychwood (Editorial)
June 8th | Emigration to New Zealand: From Journal No 28 (Journal Extracts)
June 6th | Howzat! A History of Cricket in the Wychwoods (Editorial)
June 4th | New Ascott under Wychwood Village Trail (Editorial)
May 15th | From Journal No 22: A History of Bruern Abbey (Journal Extracts)
May 15th | From Journal No 6: Bruern Abbey Fishpond (Journal Extracts)
May 10th | From Coldstone to Honeydale: Jim Pearse Remembers (Personal Memories)
May 10th | Our May 2024 Evening Event: AGM and “From Our Archive” (Editorial, Talks and Events)
May 8th | From Journal No 17: Some Wychwood Neighbourhoods about 1900 (Journal Extracts)
May 1st | A Selection of Audio File Extracts (Editorial)
April 29th | Janet Wallace (née Scott) 1934-2024 (Editorial)
April 20th | Schooldays and Childhood in the Wychwoods: A Review (Editorial, Member Contributions)
April 11th | Our April 2024 Evening Talk: “Down in the Dumps” – How Oxford Helped Win World War Two (Talks and Events)
March 27th | WLHS Photo Displays in Milton under Wychwood Library (Editorial)
March 22nd | Dorothy Thomson and the Tale of Mr Samuda’s Model T Ford (Editorial, Personal Memories)
March 16th | Our March 2024 Evening Talk: Known Unto God – A Great War Detective Story (Talks and Events)
March 9th | Corrugated Iron in the Wychwoods: A Review (Editorial)
March 1st | Datchet Gate Lodge, Windsor – Some Snapshot Research (Editorial)
February 15th | Our February 2024 Evening Talk: The Effect of Enclosures on Common Right (Talks and Events)
January 20th | A Winter’s Tale in the Wychwoods: Our Latest Milton Library Exhibition (Editorial)
January 11th | Our January 2024 Evening Talk: Cemeteries of Oxford : more than a Century of History (Talks and Events)

2023

December 6th | Pantomime Shows in the Wychwoods: Memories (Guest Articles)
November 9th | Our November 2023 Evening Talk: Romans of Oxfordshire (Talks and Events)
October 12th | Our October 2023 Evening Talk: Drovers’ Roads in Oxfordshire and Beyond (Talks and Events)
September 14th | The Rector Returns: A Follow-Up (Editorial, Personal Memories)
September 14th | Our September 2023 Evening Talk: ‘Morris’ Motopolis (Talks and Events)
August 31st | WLHS at Tall Trees Care Home (Editorial)
August 27th | Margaret Ann Ware 28th June 1933 – 4th July 2023 (Editorial)
June 17th | Ascott Martyrs Trust Family History Day (Editorial, Talks and Events)
June 12th | Neighbourhood Bells: An Appreciation (Editorial, Member Contributions)
May 29th | Uncover Oxfordshire’s past with Heritage Search (Editorial)
May 19th | Visit to the Oxfordshire Museums Resource Centre: May 2023 (Talks and Events, Visits and Excursions)
May 11th | Our May 2023 Evening Talk: History of the Windrush Stone Quarries (Talks and Events)
April 29th | Cissie Carpenter and the Good Doctor (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 29th | Bim Champness and Some Memories of Village Characters (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 29th | Dorothy Thomson, Hathaways and Mrs Wiggins (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 29th | Dulcie Arundell and the Tale of the American Soldier at Shipton Station (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 29th | George Bradley and his London Wartime Deliveries (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 29th | Megan Bradley and the Canadian Soldiers in World War II (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 13th | Our April 2023 Evening Talk: English Civil War in the Cotswolds (Talks and Events)
March 9th | Our March 2023 Evening Talk: Bellfounding at Burford 1630-1940 (Talks and Events)
March 1st | Their Finest Hour Project – WWII Memorabilia Digital Collections Day (Editorial, Personal Memories)
February 9th | Our February 2023 Evening Talk: Conscientious Objection, Religion, and the Public in Oxford in 1916 (Talks and Events)
January 21st | The Parish Room Mystery: Can You Help? (Editorial)
January 12th | Our January 2023 Evening Talk: RAF Brize Norton – 80 Years of Flying Operations (Talks and Events)

2022

December 8th | The Society’s Archive and Study Centre (Editorial)
November 12th | English Almshouses (Ancient and Modern) : Our November 2022 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
November 9th | The Hartley Family: Sporting Siblings and Brothers in Arms (Editorial)
October 13th | On This Day in Oxfordshire: Our October 2022 Evening Talk (Book Reviews, Talks and Events)
September 15th | The Medway Queen: Our September 2022 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
August 28th | Membership Applications and Renewals (Talks and Events)
July 14th | Charlbury Then and Now – New Publication (Book Reviews)
April 16th | Lewis Carroll and the River Thames: Our April 2022 Evening Talk (Book Reviews, Talks and Events)
March 10th | The History of FWP Matthews Mill: Our March 2022 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
February 19th | A Magic Lantern Splutters Back into Life (Editorial)
February 15th | A Wychwoods Wedding: Reply to a recent inquiry from the WLHS website (Member Contributions, Personal Memories)
February 10th | Oxfordshire during the Second World War: Our February 2022 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
January 13th | Roman Tackley: Our January 2022 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)

2021

December 24th | William Green, Clockmaker of Milton under Wychwood – From the Society Journal No 22 (Journal Extracts)
December 20th | Joan Howard-Drake and her contribution to local history in the Wychwoods (Editorial)
November 11th | William Morris and the Cotswolds: Our November 2021 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
October 14th | The Development of Primitive Methodism: October 2021 Talk (Talks and Events)
October 11th | Book Review: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney – A Parish History (Book Reviews)
October 1st | Milton’s Unusual Wooden Carving (Editorial)
September 29th | The 1870s: A Decade of Decisions – From the Society Journal No 3 (Journal Extracts)
September 13th | The Small Tin Church – Little Ben Rings Back (Editorial)
September 1st | The Rector Returns – A Well-Travelled Painting (Editorial)
August 13th | The Cospatrick Tragedy – From the Society Journal No. 14 (Journal Extracts)
August 13th | More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10 (Editorial, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
August 12th | Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7 (Editorial, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
August 11th | Observations on Ridge and Furrow in Honeydale Field | From the Society Journal No. 7 (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
August 10th | What’s in a Name? | From the Society Journal No.15 (Journal Extracts)
July 27th | The 19th Century Letters of Thomas and Hannah Groves | From the Society Journal No. 2 (Journal Extracts)
July 15th | The Burford – Shipton Omnibus: A Note from the Past (Journal Extracts)
July 12th | Bones under the Pew (Journal Extracts)
July 3rd | A Wychwoods Farming Year 1854–55 | From the Archive (Journal Extracts)
June 20th | A Short History of Milton-under-Wychwood High Street (Editorial, Houses)
June 5th | Exhibition at Churchill Heritage Centre (Editorial)
May 22nd | Glove Making in West Oxfordshire: Our May 2021 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
May 7th | Exhibition of Photography: Milton Library (Editorial, Talks and Events)
May 1st | A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman (Guest Articles, Personal Memories)
April 30th | The Society’s 25th Anniversary Remembered (Editorial)
April 16th | A Hero of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry: April 2021 Evening Talk (Talks and Events)
April 10th | Annunciation Relief Sculptures, Shipton Church (Journal Extracts)
April 9th | Local Casualties of a Forgotten War in Iraq (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
March 19th | Recent Evening Talk: “The Journey From Afghanistan” (Editorial, Talks and Events)
March 6th | “Keeping a Watch” – Memories of Shipton One Hundred Years Ago (Personal Memories)
February 25th | A Wartime Wedding at Prebendal House (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
February 19th | The Wilts & Berks Canal – The Latest Society Talk (Editorial, Talks and Events)
February 9th | Maria Matthews: A Gifted Life in Context (Editorial)
February 2nd | A Curious Find in Shipton: 1985 (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 27th | Discovery in the Snow (Guest Articles)
January 23rd | Our Third Online Talk: Ellen Hinde and the Prebendal (Talks and Events)
January 18th | The Shipton Prebend: An Early History (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 18th | Prebendal House, Shipton: Archaeological Review (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 14th | Early 1960s Milton School Memories (Personal Memories)
January 10th | Australia Bound: From Ascott to the “Promised Land” (Editorial, Journal Extracts)
January 6th | Jessie Jones (1885-1945): Teacher with a Legacy (Editorial)
January 3rd | 19th Century Emigration from Oxfordshire: A Book Review (Book Reviews)

2020

November 20th | Our Second Online Meeting (Talks and Events)
November 11th | Ivan Wright & Family – Shipton Under Wychwood (Personal Memories)
October 20th | Using Technology: Our First Online Meeting (Talks and Events)
October 17th | Some Sculptural Curiosities in Milton-under-Wychwood (Editorial)
October 12th | Apprentice Boys: Charity Records Revisited (Journal Extracts)
September 4th | Wychwoods Victorian Evening 1990 (Editorial)
July 5th | Ascott Village Charity Booklet: Village History and Things to Know (Guest Articles)
June 22nd | Shipton Memories: Jim Hudson (Personal Memories)
June 22nd | Churchill Remembrances (Guest Articles)
May 9th | A Shipton Lad – Not just a Naughty Boy (Personal Memories)
April 10th | The Shipton Tillyards (Editorial, Personal Memories)
April 1st | Life in Old Milton (Houses, Journal Extracts, Personal Memories)
January 14th | Cotham Cottage, Milton (Houses, Journal Extracts)

2019

December 20th | Combe Mill Recollections (Editorial, Personal Memories)
December 19th | Ascott-under-Wychwood – a Short History (Editorial, Guest Articles)
October 14th | Articles and Updates (Editorial)

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