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    Lectures
  • The 2025/6 series continues
  • John Ashdown Remembered
  • Oxford's Divinity School Vault
  • Town and Gown in Oxford
  • The Boathouses of Oxfordshire
  • Country House Building
  • Kelmscott
  • Three Houses in St Ebbes
  • Oriel and Hertford Colleges
  • Dr W.T.G. Woodforde
  • The Tom Hassall Lecture 2026
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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 89 (2024) is available ONLINE to all OAHS members. All volumes up to 2019 are freely available to everyone and there is a full text search facility.
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New Hinksey 125th anniversary
  • Dedication Festival
    Saturday 6th December
    To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the concecration of the Church of St John the Evangelist.
    Vicarage Road, New Hinksey OX1 4RD
  • Solemn Pontifical Mass and Tea: 2pm
  • Lecture by Harry Spain, architectural historian on Sir Ninian Cooper, architect : 5pm
  • Folk concert with Barricane : 7.30pm
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  • 24 men of Grandpont and Cold Harbour 1939-45
  • A free exhibition to commemorate the men from South Oxford who are named on the St Matthew's Second World War memorial
  • St Matthew's Church, Marlborough Road, OX1 4LW
  • Sunday 9 November to Sunday 7 December 2025
  • Mondays to Saturdays 10am-12 noon; Sundays 2pm-4pm
Click for more information (southoxfordhistory.org.uk)
  • The Archaeology of Oxford in the 21st Century
    Anne Dodd, Stephen Mileson, Leo Webley
  • This richly illustrated volume is based on excavations in central Oxford carried out by Oxford Archaeology and mainly focuses on the Middle Ages. It includes new evidence about the city's inns, colleges, and craft workshops, as well as supplying remarkable insights into diet and everyday life in the Jewish quarter.
  • Including introductory chapters by Tom Hassall and David Radford.
  • Paperback 9781783276134 464pp Full colour £30
    Please use the order form for your copy.
  • A History of the County of Oxford XXI: Chipping Norton and Area, including Hook Norton and the Rollrights
  • This latest VCH Oxfordshire volume focuses on the Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton and on half a dozen neighbouring villages, drawing on intensive new research. The town's origins and development are fully explored, along with its buildings, economy, and social and religious life, and those of the surrounding rural area.
  • ISBN: 9781904356578 pp 403 with 16 maps/plans, 93 b/w, 8 colour.
Buy from Boydell and Brewer (with a discount)
Oxfordshire Past
  • Oxfordshire Past 2025
    Saturday 14th June
    Oxfordshire Past 2025 was held in Faringdon and included 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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