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  • Excursions
    We have a few more excursions in our current programme, free to members.
  • Commonwealth War Graves, Botley
    12 June
  • Visit to St Mary's Church, Ewelme
    18 June
  • Tour of two Oxford churches
    31 July
  • Tour of Exeter College
    4 September
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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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  • Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
  • Join us for exhibitions featuring Ernest Howard Shepard and Operation Varsity
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  • Do you remember Charles Street - now known as Turn Again Lane - in St Ebbe's?
  • Back in 1971, as the last of the suburb of St Ebbe's was being cleared, Oxford Preservation Trust purchased 8-10 Turn Again Lane and moved their offices into numbers 9 and 10. Now, we're working with local historian Liz Woolley to explore the history of these buildings and their connection to the wider St Ebbe's community.
  • Download more information here
  • You can share your memories by:
    Emailing a.clark@oxfordpreservation.org.uk or liz@lizwoolley.co.uk
    Calling us on 01865 242918
  • oxfordpreservation.org.uk
  • 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)
    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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  • 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.


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