Meetings normally take place in the John Hampden Hall, Chalgrove on the 1st Monday of the Month between September and June (excluding December).
The doors open around 19:15 with the talk starting 19:45 followed by tea/coffee and biscuits.
Upcoming talks:
| 2025 | ||
| Date | Subject | Speaker |
| 2 June | ‘Oxfordshire Place Names – an interactive talk involving audience participation’ | Andrew Long |
| 14 July | Tour of Holton Park – time TBC | Kevin Heritage |
| 1st September | ‘The Total Pits – the remarkable history of Headington quarry, the village that built Oxford’ | Maurice East |
| 6th October | ‘It’s a Girl’s Life in the Army’ | Gillian Cane |
| 3rd November | ‘Wartime children: the 1940s Home Front from a child’s point of view | Karen and Brett Wiles |
| 2026 | ||
| Date | Subject | Speaker |
| 5 January | ‘Felicia Skene: Oxford writer, prison reformer and friend of the poor’ | Liz Woolley |
| 2 February | AGM followed by ‘St Brides Church: London’ | Colin Oakes |
| 2 March | ‘Dad’s Underground Army: the Auxiliary Units of the British Resistance Organisation’ |
Bill King |
| 13 April | ‘Oxford’s Penicillin: the forgotten WW2 story of the development of penicillin by scientists’ |
Marie-Louise Kerr |
| 11 May | Free Spirits of Oxfordshire: true originals from history’ |
Julie Ann Godson |
| 1 June | ‘Taking the Waters: the waxing and waning of the English spa’ |
Melanie King |
In the summer we try and arrange visits to places of local historic interest and have benefitted from guided tours around houses that are not normally open to the public. In recent years we have enjoyed guided tours of Dorchester-on-Thames, Waterperry House, Wallingford and Great Haseley.