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  • Excursions
    We have completed the excursions in our current programme, and are currently preparing our lecture series.
  • Commonwealth War Graves, Botley
  • Visit to St Mary's Church, Ewelme
  • Tour of two Oxford churches
  • Tour of Exeter College
  • Philip Mould
    Discovering Churchill
  • Friday 10 October 2025
    6-8pm
    £50 in support of VCH Oxfordshire
  • The art historian and gallery owner Philip Mould, widely known as a co-presenter of the BBC's award-winning Fake or Fortune?, is giving a fundraising lecture on behalf of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire (VCH) in the stunning surroundings of Ditchley Park (near Enstone).
  • Titled Discovering Churchill, the lecture will explore the rediscovery of a lost painting by Winston Churchill, and its wider significance.
  • Click to book at Eventbrite
  • Marcham Society 30th Anniversary Exhibition
  • 1330-1800 Saturday 18th October
  • 1000-1700 Sunday 19th October
  • Marcham Centre, Barrow Close, Marcham OX13 6TY
  • For full details go to
    www.marchamsociety.org.uk
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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  • 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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