Meetings begin at 8.00 p.m.
in the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock.
Forthcoming Talks
2023-2024 Season
15 April 2024
Mr Stephen Ware
Veterinary Surgeon
Past President, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Past Vice-President, Federation of Veterinarians of Europe
A Veterinary Vocation
20 May 2024
Mr James Price
Farmer
Partner, DVH Price & Son, Perdiswell Farm, Woodstock
Participant in Environmental Stewardship Scheme
Expert in modern arable farming practices
Farming on the Urban Fringe: Solar or Fields
Previous Talks
18 March 2024
Group Captain Claire O'Grady ADC MA RAF
Station Commander, RAF Brize Norton
Chair of RAF Gender Network Committee
Former Senior Air Staff Officer, 22 Group, RAF
Championing Female Empowerment in the RAF
19 February 2024
Professor Marion Turner
J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language,
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Prize-winning Author
The Wife of Bath
15 January 2024
Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith KB FRS
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics
Hon. Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
Past Director of Energy Research, University of Oxford
Past Director, UKAEA Culham Division
Past Provost and President, University College, London
Past Director General, CERN
Can Future Energy Needs Be Met Sustainably?
11 December 2023 Christmas Meeting
7.30 p.m. Mince Pies and Mulled Wine, followed by
Craig Ogden
International Classical Guitarist
Director of Guitar, Royal Northern College of Music
An Evening with Craig Ogden
20 November 2023
Mr Simon Randall
The Civil War in the Cotswolds
16 October 2023
7.30 p.m. AGM with wine, followed by
Mr Christopher Compston
Retired Judge
Past Circuit Judge, Oxford Combined Court
Past Senate Member, Inns of Court
Author
Life as a Circuit Judge
18 September 2023
Ms Julie Ann Godson
Local Historian and Author
Scandal in High Society Oxfordshire:
Selected Tales of Toffs in Trouble
22 May 2023
Mr Will Gompertz
Artistic Director, The Barbican Centre, London
Former Arts Editor, BBC
Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Mansfield College,
University of Oxford
See What You're Missing
17 April 2023
Mr Peter Hilton
Former Chief Superintendent, British Transport Police
Tales from Six Decades of Policing
20 March 2023
Mr Simon Heighes
Journalist, Critic and Broadcaster
Leading expert on Baroque music
The Great British Choral Tradition
on Record, 1888-2022
20 February 2023
Professor Paul Newman
Director of Oxford Robotics Institute
BP Professor of Information
Engineering
Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford
Co-Founder and CTO, Oxbotica
Robots Will Drive You and Everything
23 January 2023
Professor Adrian Hill KBE DM FRS
Director of the Jenner Institute, Oxford
Professor of Vaccinology
Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford
New Vaccines for Global Challenges
12 December 2022
7.30 p.m. Mince Pies and Mulled Wine, followed by
Mr Richard Ovenden OBE
Bodley's Librarian
Head of University Gardens, Libraries and Museums
Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford
Knowledge Under Attack - how libraries have
fought back for 3000 years
21 November 2022
Mrs Alice Foster
Art Historian
Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education,
University of Oxford
The Art of Partying
17 October 2022
7.30 p.m. A glass of wine on arrival and the Annual General Meeting of
The Woodstock Society, followed by:
Mr Nicholas Cleobury
International Operatic, Orchestral and Choral Conductor
Hon. Patron, Woodstock Music Society
From Choirstall to Rostrum, a Life in Music
26 September 2022 (postponed from 19 September)
Mr Stephen Barker
Heritage Advisor
Oxfordshire on the Home Front, 1914-18
16 May 2022
Dr Philippa Joseph
Tutor in Art History, Oxford University
Department for Continuing Education
Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research,
University of London
Understanding the Alhambra: a Tale of Survival, Revival
and a Return to Splendour
25 April 2022
Mr Carney Bonner
Emergency Response Operations Manager (South & Channel Islands), British Red Cross
An Insight into the British Red
Cross
Local Emergency Response
21 March 2022
The Very Reverend Jeremy Auld
Rector, Woodstock and Bladon Benefice
The Long Road to Woodstock
21 February 2022
Dr Elizabeth Gemmill
Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford
The Don on the Quad: My Year as Junior Proctor in the
University of Oxford
17 January 2022
Admiral Sir Philip Jones GCB DL
Former First Sea Lord
The Role of the
Modern Royal Navy
13 December 2021
7.30 p.m. Mince Pies and Mulled Wine in the Church
8.00 p.m. Mr Richard Wigmore
Writer, Lecturer and Broadcaster
Handel's Oratorios
15 November 2021 - by Zoom only
Dr Wendy Morrison
'Beacons of the Past' Project Manager
Chilterns Conservation Board
Citizen Science and LiDAR: Shedding Light
on the Chiltern Landscape
18 October 2021 - preceded by AGM at 7.40 p.m.
Professor William Whyte
Professor of Social and Architectural History
St John's College, University of Oxford
The Growth of Victorian Oxford
20 September 2021 - by Zoom
Dr Xa Sturgis
Director, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Not Just a Knickknackatory - the Ashmolean Museum
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