This area of our website lists editorial, articles, comments, posts and news from members and visitors by category.
Book Reviews
- On This Day in Oxfordshire: Our October 2022 Evening Talk
- Charlbury Then and Now – New Publication
- Lewis Carroll and the River Thames: Our April 2022 Evening Talk
- Book Review: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney – A Parish History
- 19th Century Emigration from Oxfordshire: A Book Review
Editorial
- Schooldays and Childhood in the Wychwoods: A Review
- WLHS Photo Displays in Milton under Wychwood Library
- Dorothy Thomson and the Tale of Mr Samuda’s Model T Ford
- Corrugated Iron in the Wychwoods: A Review
- Datchet Gate Lodge, Windsor – Some Snapshot Research
- A Winter’s Tale in the Wychwoods: Our Latest Milton Library Exhibition
- The Rector Returns: A Follow-Up
- WLHS at Tall Trees Care Home
- Margaret Ann Ware 28th June 1933 – 4th July 2023
- Ascott Martyrs Trust Family History Day
- Neighbourhood Bells: An Appreciation
- Uncover Oxfordshire’s past with Heritage Search
- Their Finest Hour Project – WWII Memorabilia Digital Collections Day
- The Parish Room Mystery: Can You Help?
- The Society’s Archive and Study Centre
- The Hartley Family: Sporting Siblings and Brothers in Arms
- A Magic Lantern Splutters Back into Life
- Joan Howard-Drake and her contribution to local history in the Wychwoods
- Milton’s Unusual Wooden Carving
- The Small Tin Church – Little Ben Rings Back
- The Rector Returns – A Well-Travelled Painting
- More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10
- Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7
- Observations on Ridge and Furrow in Honeydale Field | From the Society Journal No. 7
- A Short History of Milton-under-Wychwood High Street
- Exhibition at Churchill Heritage Centre
- Exhibition of Photography: Milton Library
- The Society’s 25th Anniversary Remembered
- Local Casualties of a Forgotten War in Iraq
- Recent Evening Talk: “The Journey From Afghanistan”
Guest Articles
- Pantomime Shows in the Wychwoods: Memories
- A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman
- Discovery in the Snow
- Ascott Village Charity Booklet: Village History and Things to Know
- Churchill Remembrances
- Ascott-under-Wychwood – a Short History
Houses
Journal Extracts
- William Green, Clockmaker of Milton under Wychwood – From the Society Journal No 22
- The 1870s: A Decade of Decisions – From the Society Journal No 3
- The Cospatrick Tragedy – From the Society Journal No. 14
- More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10
- Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7
- Observations on Ridge and Furrow in Honeydale Field | From the Society Journal No. 7
- What’s in a Name? | From the Society Journal No.15
- The 19th Century Letters of Thomas and Hannah Groves | From the Society Journal No. 2
- The Burford – Shipton Omnibus: A Note from the Past
- Bones under the Pew
- A Wychwoods Farming Year 1854–55 | From the Archive
- Annunciation Relief Sculptures, Shipton Church
- Local Casualties of a Forgotten War in Iraq
- A Wartime Wedding at Prebendal House
- A Curious Find in Shipton: 1985
- The Shipton Prebend: An Early History
- Prebendal House, Shipton: Archaeological Review
- Australia Bound: From Ascott to the “Promised Land”
- Apprentice Boys: Charity Records Revisited
- Life in Old Milton
- Cotham Cottage, Milton
Personal Memories
- Dorothy Thomson and the Tale of Mr Samuda’s Model T Ford
- The Rector Returns: A Follow-Up
- Their Finest Hour Project – WWII Memorabilia Digital Collections Day
- A Wychwoods Wedding: Reply to a recent inquiry from the WLHS website
- More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10
- Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7
- A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman
- “Keeping a Watch” – Memories of Shipton One Hundred Years Ago
- Early 1960s Milton School Memories
- Ivan Wright & Family – Shipton Under Wychwood
- Shipton Memories: Jim Hudson
- A Shipton Lad – Not just a Naughty Boy
- The Shipton Tillyards
- Life in Old Milton
- Combe Mill Recollections
Society Events
- Our April 2024 Evening Talk: “Down in the Dumps” – How Oxford Helped Win World War Two
- Our March 2024 Evening Talk: Known Unto God – A Great War Detective Story
- Our February 2024 Evening Talk: The Effect of Enclosures on Common Right
- Our January 2024 Evening Talk: Cemeteries of Oxford : more than a Century of History
- Our November 2023 Evening Talk: Romans of Oxfordshire
- Our October 2023 Evening Talk: Drovers’ Roads in Oxfordshire and Beyond
- Our September 2023 Evening Talk: ‘Morris’ Motopolis
- Ascott Martyrs Trust Family History Day
- Visit to the Oxfordshire Museums Resource Centre: May 2023
- Our May 2023 Evening Talk: History of the Windrush Stone Quarries
- Our April 2023 Evening Talk: English Civil War in the Cotswolds
- Our March 2023 Evening Talk: Bellfounding at Burford 1630-1940
- Our February 2023 Evening Talk: Conscientious Objection, Religion, and the Public in Oxford in 1916
- Our January 2023 Evening Talk: RAF Brize Norton – 80 Years of Flying Operations
- English Almshouses (Ancient and Modern) : Our November 2022 Evening Talk
- On This Day in Oxfordshire: Our October 2022 Evening Talk
- The Medway Queen: Our September 2022 Evening Talk
- Membership Applications and Renewals
- Lewis Carroll and the River Thames: Our April 2022 Evening Talk
- The History of FWP Matthews Mill: Our March 2022 Evening Talk
- Oxfordshire during the Second World War: Our February 2022 Evening Talk
- Roman Tackley: Our January 2022 Evening Talk
- William Morris and the Cotswolds: Our November 2021 Evening Talk
- The Development of Primitive Methodism: October 2021 Talk
- Glove Making in West Oxfordshire: Our May 2021 Evening Talk
- Exhibition of Photography: Milton Library
- A Hero of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry: April 2021 Evening Talk
- Recent Evening Talk: “The Journey From Afghanistan”
- The Wilts & Berks Canal – The Latest Society Talk
- Our Third Online Talk: Ellen Hinde and the Prebendal
