Meetings

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:

2026
Date	Subject	Speaker
3 August	Tour of Ewelme church, muniment room and cloisters
7 September	The History of St Giles Fair, Oxford	Tim Healey
5 October	‘Nuneham Courtenay: the house, landscape and village’	Professor Malcolm Airs
2 November	‘Romans of Oxfordshire: Roman settlement and impact in the local area’	Marie-Louise Kerr
2027
Date	Subject	Speaker
4 January	‘Beer, sausages and marmalade: Oxford food and drink in the 19th century’	Liz Woolley
1 February	AGM followed by ‘Downing Street and its inhabitants’	Colin Oakes
1 March	‘Coleshill – Nerve Centre of British Resistance’	Gillian Cane
5 April	‘Three Wayward Women in Wallingford Castle’	Edwina Johnson
10 May	‘The Oxford of Christopher Wren’	Lizzie Rowe
7 June	‘The rise and Rise of Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d1475)’	Dr Rowena Archer

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.