David Betterton, Author at The Wychwoods Local History Society

The Society’s Archive and Study CentreThe Society’s Archive and Study Centre

Over the past 40+ years the Society has become home to a variety of material relating to all aspects of[...]

Charlbury – Then and Now is an interesting new book by long-term resident Dr Geoffrey Walton, published by Down Stone[...]

Our April 13th talk in Milton Village Hall was given by Mark Davies: “Alice’s Adventures in Oxford – Lewis Carroll[...]

Our March 2022 evening talk was with Bertie Matthews who presented the history of FWP Matthews Mill in Shipton under[...]

On Wednesday January 12th at 7.30 we were pleased to welcome John Perkins, who presented insights into Roman Tackley. John[...]

As we mark the closing of another year and look forward to the dawning of a new one, here is[...]

The Society’s second talk of the 2021/22 season was again held in the Village Hall. There was a pleasing attendance[...]

Here is an extended piece discussing the trials and challenges of agricultural workers in the Wychwoods during the 1870s. It[...]

Here is a second extended piece by Dorothy Brookes, taken from the WLHS Journal No. 10 (1995). We republish it[...]

Here is an extended piece by Dorothy Brookes, taken from the WLHS Journal No. 7 (1992). We republish it here[...]