Speaker: Hubert Zawadzki Hubert, a former history teacher, who grew up after the Second World War in one of these camps talks about why they were set up and what life was like for their inhabitants. Dr Zawadzki is the joint author of A Concise History of Poland and has appeared on the BBC television series Who Do […]

Speaker: Dick Richards Dick is a 'Champion' and volunteer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which honours all those from the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars. His talk describes the Commission's beginnings, the design of its cemeteries and memorials, and its presence in Oxfordshire and the surrounding area. Meeting report […]

Speaker: Nick Millea Six volumes of the British Historic Towns Atlas series telling the fascinating history of Britain's historic towns have already been published by the Historic Towns Trust. Volume VII, the Oxford atlas, is due to be published in autumn 2020. Nick is Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library and a trustee of the Historic Towns Trust. Meeting […]