MONTHLY MEETINGS

All meetings are on Fridays at 7.45pm in Wallingford Town Hall (in the Market Place).

Parking is available nearby in the St Albans/Waitrose car-park.

Visitors welcome (£2.00)

2010 PROGRAMME

8 Jan         Paul Smith: A Roundup of Oxfordshire Archaeology.

Paul will be retiring this year from his post as County Archaeologist – we would like to thank him for his support over many years and wish him a long and happy retirement

PLEASE NOTE: This talk had to be cancelled because of the snow - it will be rearranged at a future date

12 Feb      AGM + Steve Capel-Davies: River Thames Slide-show Quiz

12 March  Jane Macdonald: The Cook, the Scullion and the Turnspit boy: the History of the 18thC Kitchen.

Jane is a local historian and lecturer who has spent many years researching the history of food

9 April       Dr Simon Townley: Henley as an Inland Port.

Simon is Editor of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History and a well-known lecturer. His talk will cover the history of Henley from the Middle Ages to the 19th century

14 May      Dr Neil Christie: The Burh to Borough Project – Results and Questions.

Neil is one of the Project Directors and Reader in Archaeology at Leicester University

11 June     Liz Wooley: Child Labour in Oxfordshire 1870-1900.

The talk highlights the differences between boys’ and girls’ experiences of work and the particular fates of the pauper apprentices

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10 Sept      Martin Way: Glimmer in the Dark.

A celebration of art and craftsmanship in Anglo-Saxon England with later Viking influences (set against a backdrop of everyday life)

8 Oct          Paul Booth: The Dorchester Project.

Paul is a senior archaeologist at Oxford Archaeology and he will give us the results of the latest excavations in Dorchester

12 Nov       Tim Jordan: Cotswold Stone Barns.

Tim’s talk is based on his book, published in 2006, which traces the historical and structural development of the traditional local barns

10 Dec        Rupert Willoughby: Kings, Knights & Monks at Reading.

Rupert, an historian who specialises in the domestic and social life of the past, is author of the best-selling “Life in Medieval England”. His latest book is “Reading and its Contribution to World Culture”