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20 October, 7.30pm

Speaker: Dr Barrie Juniper
Fellow Emeritus of St Catherine's, Reader Emeritus in Plant Sciences.
The History of the Apple.

17 November, 7.30pm

Speaker: Dr Arthur MacGregor of the Ashmoleum Museum.
Major GWG Allen and his "Discovery from the Air".
Major Allen (d.1945) was the recognised pioneer of aerial photography for archaeology, and an Iffley man.

15 December, 7.30pm

Music of the People.
The group "Skeleton Crew" will play, and talk about, period songs and dances. Seasonal food and drink.

2006

16 February, 7.30pm

Speaker: Martin Way
A Glimmer in the Dark
Art and craftsmanship in Anglo-Saxon England, set against the backdrop of everyday life.

16 March, 7.30pm

Speaker: Chris Day, University Lecturer in Local History
Vivien Greene Memorial Lecture
"No Little Scandal to God and to Man": the extraordinary story of town-gown relations in Oxford.

27 April, 7.30pm (later date to avoid Easter Week)

Visit Long Hanborough Museum of motor transport and Oxford's motor industry. Details to be announced.

18 May, 7.30pm

New Thoughts on Old Places: recent work by the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire.
Speaker: Dr Simon Townley, County Editor, Victoria County History.

June/July:

Summer Visit.
To be announced.

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Previous Programmes
2001
18 October, 7.30pm	Speaker: Jan Warner, a collector of infantilia from the 18c onwards, Survival of the Fittest, A Brief History of Child Rearing.
15 November, 7.30pm.	Speaker: Stephen Capel-Davies, Chairman of the Wallingford Society, A History of Malting and Brewing.
13 December, 7.30pm.	Christmas For Elizabethans, Details to be announced.
2002
21 February, 7.30pm.	Speaker: David Vaisey, Bodleian Librarian Emeritus, Victorian Shops and Advertising in Oxford.
21 March, 7.00pm (please note the time).	Visit to Oxfordshire County Records Office, Details to be announced.
18 April, 7.30pm.	Speaker: James Godfrey, Verger, Christ Church Cathedral - A "Peculiar" Place.
16 May, 7.30pm.	A.G.M. Speaker: David Eddershaw, former Education Officer, C.O.S., Victoria's Jubilee Celebrations in Oxford.
20 June	Society Outing to Thame

17 October	Speaker: Rosemary Kelly A City at War: Oxford 1642-1646
21 November	Speaker: John Pilling Oxfordshire Houses
12 December	Fifty Years of Iffley (Details to be announced)
2003
20 February	Speaker: Graham Keevill Looking for God's Sisters - Godstow Nunnery
20 March	Speaker: Martin Way The Golden Age of Coaching
17 April	Speaker: Sheila Fairfield A Celebration of the Willow
15 May	A.G.M. and talk Speaker: Peter Coveney The Magic Lantern
June or July	Society Summer Outing (Details to be announced)
2004
15 April, 7.30pm	Speaker: Christopher Hall The first Parish Council Elections - with specific local references
20 May, 7.30pm	Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Wells Early Stuart Iffley, from Parish records
June/July	Society Outing (Details to be announced)
21 October, NB 6.30pm	Visit to the University Press Museum, Great Clarendon Street.
18 November, 7.30pm	Speaker: Robert Sephton J.J. Faulkner, Oxford Grocer, Pacifist & Temperance Advocate
16 December, 7.30pm	Christmas Exhibition with Seasonal Fare, Grove House and its inhabitants.
2005
17 February, 7.30pm	Speaker: Godfrey Townsend, Oxford Postal History
17 March, 7.30pm	Speaker: John Ashdown, New Images of Oxford, 2001-2004
21 April, 7.30pm	Speaker: Manfred Brod, Religion, Politics & Magic in the Thames Valley. Dr Pordage & His Circle 1646-54
19 May, 7.30pm	Speaker: John Dils, The Medieval Guilds
June/July	Society Outing, Details to be announced

2007 16 October, 7.30pm			Speaker: Martin Way Roses and Castles, Life on "the cut" for canal barge families.
20 November, 7.30pm			Speaker: Tim Porter Medieval Pilgrims in Oxfordshire.
18 December, 7.30pm			Christmas Meeting: Vignettes from Iffley's Past presented by Sheila Fairfield and Kathryn Wilkinson. Punch and nibbles will be served.
2008
19 February, 7.30pm			Speaker: Edmund Gray The Evolution of House Design in Iffley and Beyond.
15 March, t.b.a.			Speaker: Talk by Dr Mark Chapman, Vice-Principal Visit to Cuddesdon: College and Village
15 April, 7.30pm			VIVIENNE GREENE MEMORIAL LECTURE Speaker: Alice Foster Pre-Raphaelite Painters in Oxford.
20 May, 7.30pm (AGM)			Speaker: Norma Aubertin-Potter, Librarian of All-Souls. Oxford Coffee Houses 1650-1800
June/July:			Summer Visit. Details to be announced.