The History of Oxford University

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Alastair Lack Alastair read modern history at University College Oxford. After a career working for the BBC, he now lives in Oxford where he is a Green Badge Guide. […]

Growing up in a 1950s Corner Shop

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Josie Midwinter Josie’s parents, Henry and Esther, ran Midwinter’s Grocery Shop in Didcot opposite the railway station where Josie grew up. Josie describes her memories of her childhood there […]

Six Warrior Women of the English Civil Wars, 1642-1651

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Stephen Barker During the English Civil War, women were not meek bystanders who took no part in the conflict but actively participated in a variety of ways, challenging the […]

50 Years in the Thames Valley Police Force

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Christine Bovingdon-Cox Christine joined the Thames Valley Police Force in 1973 and worked in various departments including Child Abuse Investigation, Major Crime, Counter-Terrorism, Protection for the Royal Family and […]

Cemeteries of Oxford – More than a Century of History

Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Speaker: Trevor Jackson Oxford today has four municipal cemeteries plus a number of parish cemeteries and churchyards. Trevor tells the story of the development and closure of cemeteries in the […]