An Audio Clip: Duncan Waugh’s Jail Cell Anecdote
Here is another in a series of extracts from our many Oral History audio files. Our archive contains many recordings of talks given to the society in the 1980s and […]
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Our December 2024 Evening Talk: A Victorian Christmas
Speaker: Tim Healey Subject: A Victorian Christmas Tim Healey is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has presented many programs on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. The author of over 60 […]
Jim Pearse – Farmer and Entertainer
In the society archive, there is an extended audio recording of an interview with Jim Pearse by Trudy Yates, made on December 2nd 2006. Here is a copy: Towards the […]
Letter from New Zealand to the People of the Wychwoods
I am pleased to share this letter from Glenda Lewis, a descendant of Wychwoods emigrants to New Zealand. Glenda is numbered among many such descendants who are drawn to the […]
Our November 2024 Evening Talk: The Cospatrick 150th Anniversary Reflections
Speakers: John Bennett/Carol Anderson Subject: The Cospatrick 150th Anniversary Reflections The Society’s evening Talk on 13th November was themed around the Cospatrick story. Talks by Carol Anderson and John Bennett […]
Cospatrick 150th Anniversary Commemorations
In November the Wychwoods Local History Society are organising and participating in a number of events to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Cospatrick Tragedy. Look out for the following: […]
Our October 2024 Evening Talk: Our Boys 1914 – 1918
Speaker: Julie Ann Godson: Subject: Our Boys 1914 – 1918Julie read history at the University of Oxford under Dr Rowena E Archer. She made so many good friends at Oxford that, […]
Wychwoods Harvest-home and Farming Life: Our Latest Library Exhibition
Our latest library exhibition running now until mid-November 2024 features a selection of images of autumn harvest activity in Wychwoods farms over the years As with all our exhibitions in […]
Our September 2024 Evening Talk: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
September 11th 2024 The first in our 2024/5 season of talks was by Edward Caswell, who presented with great enthusiasm his work with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). Edward started […]
The Society at Shipton Fete 2024
We were pleased to have a presence at the Shipton Fete on Bank Holiday Monday August 26th, and enjoyed a great deal of interest from a steady stream of visitors […]