18 September 2023

Ms Julie Ann Godson

Local Historian and Author

Scandal in High Society Oxfordshire:

Selected Tales of Toffs in Trouble

16 October 2023

AGM followed by:

Mr Stephen Ware

Veterinary Surgeon

Past President, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

Past Vice-President, Federation of Veterinarians                                                          of Europe (FVE)

                               A Veterinary Vocation

20 November 2023

Professor Russell Foster CBE, FRSB, FMedSci, FRS

Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, University of Oxford

Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Director, Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi)

Head, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Nuffield Department

                                of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford

     Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

11 December 2023 Christmas Meeting

Craig Ogden

International Classical Guitarist

Director of Guitar, Royal Northern College of Music

An Evening with Craig Ogden

15 January 2024

Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith KB, FRS

Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics

Hon. Fellow, St John's College, Oxford

Past Director of Energy Research, University of Oxford

                               Past Director of UKAEA Culham Division

                               Past Provost and President of University College, London

                               Past Director General of CERN

                              Can Future Energy Needs Be Met Sustainably?

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

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