16 December 2024

7.30 p.m. Mulled Wine and Mince Pies

Mr Quentin Hayes

Principal Study Tutor, School of Vocal Studies and Opera,

Royal Northern College of Music

A.I. Artistically Inspired? Are the Arts Still Relevant in the 21st Century?

13 January 2025

Dr Sally and Dr Tony Hope

Retired Doctors

Agatha Christie: Plots, Clues and Misdirection

17 February 2025

Ms Gillian Cane

Local Historian

Coleshill: Nerve Centre of British Resistance

17 March 2025

Mr David Keen

Political Economist

Professor of Complex Emergencies,

London School of Economics

Shame: Politics and Power as an Emotion

14 April 2025

Mr Graham Clifton

Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers

Working with Church Bells

19 May 2025

Mr Michael Parker

Institute of Group Analysis

Psychoanalytic Thinking in the NHS and Prison Service

18 November 2024

Dr Robert Edwards

Retired GP

Frank Bevan's Woodstock in 1932

21 October 2024

7.30 p.m. AGM with wine

Mr Brian Kay

Conductor and Radio Presenter

A Life in Music

16 September 2024

Professor Gwyn Bevan

Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis,

London School of Economics

How Did Britain Come to This: Systemic Failures in Privatisation, Outsourcing and Entrenching Inequalities?

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

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

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