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    Lectures
  • Our programme for the first part of 2024 is now over
  • Recordings of some lectures are available online
  • We look forward now to excursions and then a new lecture series starting in the autumn
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Oxfordshire Past
  • Oxfordshire Past 2024
    Saturday 15th June from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
    Oxfordshire Past 2024 will be held in Bicester and will include the OAHS AGM.

    This enjoyable annual event in the Oxfordshire calendar is for anyone interested in history, buildings and archaeology. There are stalls and exhibitors throughout the day. Attendance can be booked and paid for in advance online. The fee of £10 includes tea/coffee but not lunch.
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    Oxoniensia
  • The OAHS journal Oxoniensia is available online. It is one of the foremost archaeological, architectural, and local history journals in the country. It includes excavation reports, surveys of buildings and standing structures, and articles on the history and topography of Oxford and Oxfordshire. Volume 88 (2023) is now available ONLINE to all OAHS members. All volumes up to 2018 are freely available to everyone and there is a full text search facility.
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  • 80th Anniversary of D-Day
  • In the run up to the anniversary, the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum is keen to hear from local people with their own memories or family stories of D-Day, soldier or civilian, ahead of a new exhibition running from 18 May - 24 September 2024. Those with an Oxfordshire D-Day story they would like to share with the museum can get in touch:
  • Website (Contact Form): sofo.org.uk/oxfordshire-d-day-stories/
    Phone: 01993 810 210
    Email: frontofhouse@sofo.org.uk
  • Loyalties Under Siege: Life in Oxford during the Civil War
    Eugene Coyle, MLitt, FRHistS
  • Museum of Oxford (MOX): Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1BX
    17 April 2024 13.00-14.00
    £5
    museumofoxford.org
  • This presentation will explore the daily challenges faced by Oxford's residents during the Civil War, including the persistent friction between the town and gown factions. The term "town v gown" symbolizes the historical tension between local townspeople and the academic community of the university during the First Civil War. This rivalry, rooted in social, economic, and cultural differences, offers insight into loyalty, collaboration, and conflict resolution amid this tumultuous era. Additionally, it will examine the impact of the Great Fire of 1644 and the Great Plague, both consequences of overcrowding and Royalist Military law, that shaped Oxford's experience in the Civil War era.
  • Appleton Area Archaeological Research Project
    AAARP Open Day, Saturday 20 April: Besselsleigh Manor excavations

    Come and visit the excavations of the Anglo-Saxon to 18C Manor and its deserted village at the Rye Estate OX13 5PY, on Saturday 20 April from 10am-3pm.
    There will be tours of the excavations at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm, short talks, finds displays, access to the church of St Lawrence, opportunities to try both excavation and metal detecting, and activities for young people.
    Parking on grass and Portaloos are both available.
  • Directions: The site is south of the modern village of Besselsleigh. Left turn off A420 northbound signed to Parklands Estate, just before the solitary church. Then right through a field gate. It is better to go to the roundabout on the A420 south of the site and come back northbound than try to turn right off the southbound A420. Please do not go into the drive of Rye House.
    A bus from Oxford stops at the Greyhound pub in Besselsleigh with a safe footpath by the road south to the church and entry from churchyard.


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