Our October 2025 evening talk welcomed Diane Purkiss, professor of English Literature at Oxford University , and fellow and tutor[...]
Our first talk of the new season was held in Milton Village Hall on Wednesday 10th September. We wecomed Stephen[...]
The WLHS made its presence known at the Milton under Wychwood Fete this July 12th. We had two boards of[...]
The Wychwoods Local History Society presented a special evening of entertainment with the renowned band Oxford Waits on June 11th[...]
AGM and presentation ‘From our Archive’ The Society’s AGM followed the format we introduced last year. The formal business was[...]
Speaker: Laurence Waters Subject: Chipping Norton Branch Line Upwards of 70 members and guests enjoyed another successful and informative evening, once again[...]
Speaker: Paul Booth Subject: Archaeological developments in the Chipping Norton area. Paul’s talk featured the ‘new’ Romano-British settlement at Chipping Norton[...]
Speaker: Liz Woolley Subject: Child Labour in 19th Century Oxfordshire Liz is a freelance local historian. She lives in Oxford and[...]
Our oral history archive contains many recordings of talks given to the society in the 1980s and 1990s Here is[...]
Speakers: Jonathan Maisey and Joe Duxbury Subject: Cotswold Quarries Part 2 Jonathan Maisey’s 2023 presentation with Joe Duxbury on the Windrush[...]
