Annual General Meeting
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireThe 24th Annual General Meeting of Radley History Club This will be followed by a talk from Sarah Somerville on working as a guide in a historic house in the […]
CHANGE TO PUBLISHED PROGRAMME: A Guide’s Guide: Working in Historic Houses in the 21st century
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Sarah Somerville Sarah is the Visitor Services Officer at Shaw House, a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house situated on the northern edge of Newbury and managed by West […]
Keble College and The Light of the World by Holman Hunt
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Lizzy Rowe Lizzy looks at the origins of Keble College and tells some of the fascinating stories about its early days, focusing in particular on The Light of the […]
From Axtell to Zacharias: the Men who built Oxford
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Liz Woolley The talk examines some of the characters involved in the city’s enormous expansion during the Victorian period including builders, architects, property developers and landlords. Fortunes were made, […]
The History of the Railway from Didcot to Oxford
Radley Church Church Road, Radley, Abingdon, OxfordshireSpeaker: Laurence Waters Laurence draws on his extensive knowledge of local railway lines to tell us the history of the railway from Didcot to Oxford. Laurence has written several books […]