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Researching and publishing the history of Oxfordshire places as part of @vchlondon.bsky.social‬ - landscape, settlement, buildings, economy, religion, society and more: www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/counties-z/oxfordshire
October 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion!
Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We shall endeavour to find a local church altar featuring four candles... (Dean has no church, unfortunately...)
August 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
An iconic slice of modern cultural history attached to a site noted in Domesday - that's @vchlondon.bsky.social for you! (We did manage to slip in a reference to it featuring in 'an iconic record cover' 😉.)
July 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
😂 - though as it was found in Aug 2020 I don't suppose any of us were getting out that much at the time!
July 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thankyou Linda! - a very nice welcome so far 😊
July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thankyou! 😊
July 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For more, see the draft texts for our next volume at www.history.ac.uk/research/vic... - and for the rich documentation (in Oxfordshire History Centre), the commendably full listing at discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/79... (covering the C16 to C19)
July 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
... which will be covered in our forthcoming volume on the Chadlington area: history.ac.uk/research/vic... (under Spelsbury). Hope to see you there! (And please repost the thread...🙏)
Oxfordshire vol. XXII - Chadlington and Area
This volume will cover a swathe of west Oxfordshire rural parishes from Chastleton on the west through to Spelsbury, Enstone, and Kiddington on the east
history.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Details and booking (including drinks reception) at eventbrite.co.uk/e/philip-mou.... Besides the lecture, this is a rare chance to see one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 houses, now home to the Ditchley Foundation ...
Philip Mould: Discovering Churchill - a lecture at Ditchley Park
A lecture in support of VCH OXFORDSHIRE by art historian and dealer Philip Mould, presenter of BBC 1's award-winning series Fake or Fortune?
eventbrite.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thankyou! 👍
July 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM