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    Lectures
  • The 2025/6 series is now over
  • Country House Building
  • Kelmscott
  • Three Houses in St Ebbes
  • Oriel and Hertford Colleges
  • Dr W.T.G. Woodforde
  • The Tom Hassall Lecture 2026
    Uncovering Oxfordshire's Dinosaur Highway
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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 90 (2025) is now available ONLINE to all OAHS members.
    All volumes up to 2020 are freely available to everyone and there is a full text search facility.
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Save the UPP
  • Save the UPP
    The future of Oxford's much loved independent cinema, the Ultimate Picture Palace, is at great risk. Opened in 1911, the Ultimate Picture Palace (UPP) is one of the oldest independent cinemas in England. It's defying national trends in ticket sales and is a cultural hub for people across the city and beyond.
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Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum 50 Objects 2026
  • Military History in 50 Objects
    21 March to 30 April 2026
    Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum tells the story of the county's military heritage through 50 objects in new exhibition featuring objects to illustrate Oxfordshire stories from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second World War
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Early Saxon activity at East Challow, near Wantage - Lecture
  • Early Saxon activity at East Challow, near Wantage
    A lecture by Matt Nichol, of Cotswold Archaeology
    Wednesday 25th March
    Excavations at East Challow uncovered an important multi-period site. It indicated an extensive early 6th-7th century Anglo-Saxon settlement. This comprises 16 sunken-featured buildings, pits and the remains of two possible timber halls, possibly forming part of a more extensive Anglo-Saxon settlement.
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42 MEN OF SOUTH OXFORD 1939-45
  • A free exhibition
    to commemorate the men from Grandpont, New Hinksey and Cold Harbour who died in the Second World War
    Discover the stories of the local men who went to fight, and their families and neighbours

    Westgate Library, Oxford
    Thursday 12 to Monday 30 March 2026
    Free entry during library hours
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St Mary's Church
  • St Mary's Church
    Saturday 16th May
    Spend a day looking at and drawing Iffley Church with local artist and teacher, MICAH HAYNS.
    All materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own sketching stool, sketch book, or anything you are working on if you wish
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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.
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