Our new programme of activities for winter 2024 is available in the November newsletter for Members and is listed in greater detail in our Events Calendar on this website. This includes a New Year lunch, informal coffee mornings and monthly lectures in our winter lecture series until March 2025.
Winter Lectures
In our winter series, between October and March, there will be 4 lectures at Magdalen College Auditorium, and 2 lectures available to members via Zoom. Non-members are welcome at our lectures at Magdalen Auditorium. For more details, see Lectures.
9 – 15 December: Zoom lecture for members
Saving Country Houses with speaker Ben Cowell, Director General of Historic Houses
The organisation Historic Houses was created over 50 years ago in part to put the collected efforts of independent owners and custodians on a par with institutions such as the National Trust.
13–19 January 2025: Zoom lecture for members
Shells, Curtains and Doll Houses: the challenges of paper conservation within the National Trust
Nicola Walker, Senior National Conservator, Paper & Photography at the National Trust, will describe the wide variety of objects she encounters, including portrait miniatures, parchment documents, globes and fans.
18 February 2025, at Magdalen College Auditorium, Longwall St at 11am
The Happy Journey: the ffennells of Wytham
Local historian Mervyn Hughes has researched for over ten years the ffennell family of Wytham and the history of Hill End Centre and the trenches in Wytham Wood.
18 March 2025, AGM at 10.45 followed by a Lecture at Magdalen College Auditorium
The Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
We are delighted to welcome Professor William Whyte, architectural historian, fellow of St John’s College, Chair of Oxford Preservation Trust, who is currently responsible for the building of the new Centre for the Humanities. The largest single building project in the University’s history, the new Humanities Centre is the outcome of the largest single gift ever given to Oxford.
