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This area of our website lists editorial, articles, comments and news from members and visitors by category. See articles by date here

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

• 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”
• A Wartime Wedding at Prebendal House
• The Wilts & Berks Canal – The Latest Society Talk
• Maria Matthews: A Gifted Life in Context
• 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”
• Jessie Jones (1885-1945): Teacher with a Legacy
• Some Sculptural Curiosities in Milton-under-Wychwood
• Wychwoods Victorian Evening 1990
• The Shipton Tillyards

Guest Articles

• 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

• A Short History of Milton-under-Wychwood High Street
• Life in Old Milton
• Cotham Cottage, Milton

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

• Their Finest Hour Project – WWII Memorabilia Digital Collections Day
• 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

• 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
• Our Second Online Meeting
• Using Technology: Our First Online Meeting