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SUMMARY:Professor Glen O’Hara – Britain’s Water Industry and Pollution since 1945: How Did We Get Here?
DESCRIPTION:Glen O’Hara is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes University. A prolific commentator on current events in the press\, he is also the author of a string of books on modern public policy\, most recently The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain (2017). He is currently finishing works connected to his large-scale Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project\, ‘In All Our Footsteps: Mapping\, Tracking and Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain’\, and a book on the domestic policies of Tony Blair’s New Labour governments between 1997 and 2007. \n\n\n‘How Did We Get Here?’ will explore some of the very deep-seated roots of present controversies over water pollution. Britain now has a very old and dilapidated system of water supply and removal\, which successive governments as well as private companies from the late 1980s onwards struggled with – often making progress\, but also constantly slipping backwards in a warming world and a more storm-prone British Isles. The origins of our present crisis\, O’Hara will argue\, are as much about rising public expectations\, better monitoring\, more leisure time and the electoral battle in southern England as they are about sewage discharge.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-glen-ohara-britains-water-industry-and-pollution-since-1945/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jane Robinson – Trailblazer: the Remarkable Lives of the Victorian Artist and Activist Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
DESCRIPTION:Jane Robinson is an acclaimed social historian\, focusing on women pioneers. Her 13 books include the best-selling Bluestockings\, the story of the first women to access higher education in Britain\, and major biographies of nurse Mary Seacole\, social reformer\, the inspirational humanitarian Josephine Butler and the artist Barbara Bodichon. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical and Royal Geographical Societies\, a Hawthornden Fellow\, a writing mentor\, and a Senior Associate of Somerville College\, Oxford. \n\n\nVictorian Barbara Bodichon was responsible for the development of feminism in Britain. She campaigned for equal opportunity in the workplace\, the law\, the polling booth\, at home\, and in the world beyond the kitchen or the drawing-room; she co-founded the first university college for women in Britain (Girton) and the first women’s suffrage society. She was also that rare bird\, a successful professional female artist. Cheerful\, loving and beloved\, she’s a very modern heroine.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/jane-robinson-trailblazer-the-remarkable-lives-of-the-victorian-artist-and-activist-barbara-leigh-smith-bodichon/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T140000
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SUMMARY:Tom Brown – Overground Underground: How London’s Tube Network Developed in the 20th Century from a Steam-Powered ‘Terminus Shuttle’ into a Sprawling Wonder of Electric Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Tom Brown was born in London in 1956 and was so fascinated by the Tube that he had memorized the tube map at age 10 and travelled on the Victoria Line on the day it opened. He holds a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages from Jesus College\, Oxford and had a career of 34 years in international banking\, often affording him the opportunity to ride transit systems from Shanghai to New York. Apart from railways and in particular all aspects of metro/subway systems\, his many interests include classical music and opera. In 2023 he gave an illustrated talk to u3a on Britten’s operas.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/tom-brown-overground-underground-how-londons-tube-network-developed-in-the-20th-century/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20250818T104140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250818T162850Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Gary Browning – Iris Murdoch and the Quartet of Oxford Women Philosophers (Elizabeth Anscombe\, Philippa Foot\, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch)
DESCRIPTION:Gary Browning is Emeritus Professor of Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University\, and is involved with Think Human\, a public engagement platform\, which he established in 2017. He is the author of sixteen books\, including\, A History of Modern Political Thought – The Question of Interpretation (Oxford University Press\, 2027)\, two books on Bob Dylan and three books on Iris Murdoch\, the latest of which is Iris Murdoch and the Political (Oxford University Press\, 2024). He is currently working on three books\, including What is Living and What is Dead in Hegel and Marx (Oxford University Press\, 2027)
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-gary-browning-iris-murdoch-and-the-quartet-of-oxford-women-philosophers/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20250818T103756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250818T162841Z
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SUMMARY:Timothy Walker – Gardening as Fine Art
DESCRIPTION:From 1988-2014 Timothy Walker was the director of the Oxford Botanic Garden. Since 2014 he has been senior college lecturer in plant biology at Somerville College Oxford. \n\n\nIn 1882 Gertrude Jekyll wrote a short but seminal article in The Garden in which she urged the readers to ‘remember that in a garden we are painting a picture’. As an accomplished watercolour artist\, Miss Jekyll was familiar with the principles of using colours\, but she felt that in gardens these principles ‘had been greatly neglected’. This talk looks at how to apply these principles in designing a border\, but it also looks at the ways in which a border is different from a painting. However\, it goes further than this and looks at how contemporary work of the likes of Turner\, Monet\, Rothko\, Jackson Pollock evolved in parallel with ideas about what a garden or border should look like.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/timothy-walker-gardening-as-fine-art/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dr Hubert Zawadzki  - Captivity\, Military Service and Survival: My Parents' Wartime Story 1939-1945
DESCRIPTION:Dr Hubert Zawadzki was born in 1946 in Scotland to Polish parents who came to Britain with the Polish Armed Forces during the second world war. Until the age of eleven\, he lived in various Polish resettlement camps in Britain. \nDr Zawadzki read modern history at Keble College (1964-67). In 1973 he obtained a doctorate in Polish and Russian history at Wolfson College where he was also a Junior Research Fellow (1973-76). \nHe taught history for 30 years at Abingdon School while continuing with his academic work– and this he has continued since his retirement from teaching in 2006. He has retained his long association with Wolfson College. \nDr Zawadzki is author of a monograph on Adam Czartoryski as a statesman of Russia and Poland and co-author (with Prof. Jerzy Lukowski) of A Concise History of Poland which has been translated into seven languages. He has also translated and edited his mother’s memoirs: Irena Protassewicz\, A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict\, Deportation and Exile. \nHe a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad (London).
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-hubert-zawadzki-captivity-military-service-and-survival-my-parents-wartime-story-1939-1945/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T150000
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SUMMARY:Ross King - Leonardo’s Last Supper
DESCRIPTION:Ross King is the author of numerous books on Italian and French art and history\, including Leonardo and The Last Supper. Although the painting is one of the most famous in the history of art\, how this famous mural came to be painted is much less well-known. \nThis illustrated lecture will recount how Leonardo received the commission (for whose execution he had little experience and even less inclination) from Lodovico Sforza\, the Duke of Milan\, and how he went about creating his masterpiece through an experimental new style. While the mural is burdened with many myths – most of which have no basis in fact – the true story of its execution is even more remarkable and interesting. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/ross-king-leonardos-last-supper/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240831T160542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240831T160542Z
UID:1748-1749736800-1749740400@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Professor Philip Bullock - The Politics of Russian Music: Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff
DESCRIPTION:Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford\, and fellow and tutor in Russian at Wadham College. His short life of Tchaikovsky was published by Reaktion in 2016\, and in 2022 he edited Rachmaninoff and His World for the University of Chicago Press. He works extensively with arts organisations in the UK and abroad\, and has a particularly close relationship with the Oxford International Song Festival and Wigmore Hall\, London. \nIn this talk\, he will look at the careers of two of Russia’s most famous composers. Although both projected images of themselves as unconnected with politics and ideology and believed in the eternal power of music to transcend the everyday\, both were\, in fact\, closely involved in the main institutions of the Russian imperial administration and were called upon to use their cultural capital in the service of the state. Looking at these relationships allows us to get a better understanding of the importance of music and all the arts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia – and has implications for how we talk about Russian culture today\, not least in the wake of the war in Ukraine. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-philip-bullock-the-politics-of-russian-music-tchaikovsky-and-rachmaninoff/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250605T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
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UID:1746-1749132000-1749135600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Paul Walton - The Poetry of Place
DESCRIPTION:Born in Staffordshire\, Paul read history at Brasenose College\, Oxford\, wrote Bluff Your Way in Marketing and helped unleash Quorn upon an unsuspecting world. In retirement Paul combines two of his passions as The Brand Historian\, guest lectures for the Oxford English Faculty\, creates poetry anthologies (the latest on Shotover\, has just been published) and can often be found in OX2 and OX4 helping seniors with their IT hitches and glitches \nLike many writers\, Paul has found inspiration in the landscape. In this talk Paul visits some of his favourite places in Britain and beyond and explains how he and other poets have discovered creative opportunity. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/paul-walton-the-poetry-of-place/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T150000
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UID:1743-1748527200-1748530800@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Melanie King - Taking the Waters: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the English Spa
DESCRIPTION:Melanie King is a writer of historical non-fiction who has published seven books. She specialises in using archival sources to shine a light on the obscure and often bizarre episodes that run through history\, from the madcap techniques used by spies in WWI\, to the ‘fake news’ about the effects of coffee propagated by seventeenth-century tea merchants. Her eclectic subjects reflect her varied and shifting careers. After graduating with a degree in international relations from the University of Sussex she travelled alone through India\, Nepal\, South-east Asia\, North America\, Australia\, New Zealand and Europe. She worked in Bangkok as a staff writer for The Nation; with Eurocrats in Brussels; at Chatham House in London; and with refugees and victims of torture\, both at home and abroad. \nMelanie’s talk will take an informative but light-hearted look at the social and cultural history of our obsession with drinking and bathing in spa waters and the entrepreneurs who promoted these resorts—often on the basis of the most dubious scientific evidence. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/melanie-king-taking-the-waters-the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-the-english-spa/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250522T140000
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UID:1741-1747922400-1747926000@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Richard Rickitt - Introducing the Amazing Honey Bee
DESCRIPTION:Richard Rickitt spent 20 years in the film and television special effects industry.  He is now co-editor of BeeCraft magazine\, the UK’s best-selling beekeeping magazine. He is the author of several books including Gardening for Beekeepers. \n  \nDo you know how many eyes a bee has (it’s not two!)\, or which part of its body it uses to taste with (not its tongue!)? Or how many hundreds of miles flying it takes to make one teaspoon of honey for your toast? If the answer is no\, this talk will inform\, amaze and entertain you. \nBeekeeper and author Richard Rickitt gives a fascinating and entertaining talk about bees and beekeeping. You will find out about the extraordinary lifecycle of honey bees\, how they live\, breed\, communicate\, and\, perhaps most importantly\, make honey! This illustrated talk takes a peek inside a beehive\, explaining the complex\, finely-tuned relationship of its tens-of-thousands of inhabitants. \nThe talk will be of interest to anyone who gardens\, would like to know more about bees and beekeeping\, or who just enjoys a bit of honey on their porridge.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/richard-rickitt-introducing-the-amazing-honey-bee/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250515T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T171505Z
UID:1739-1747317600-1747321200@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Jonathan Healey - The Levellers
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jonathan Healey is Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford\, where he is a specialist in seventeenth century English history. His most recent book\, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England tells the story of this fascinating and tumultuous age. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-jonathan-healey-the-levellers/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250508T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240831T160728Z
UID:1735-1746712800-1746716400@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Graham Harding - A History of Champagne in Six Bottles
DESCRIPTION:Graham Harding returned to academic life in 2014 to study the history of wine after a professional career in publishing and consultancy. The book of his 2018 Oxford doctorate\, Champagne in Britain\, 1800-1914: how the British transformed a French luxury was published by Bloomsbury in late 2021. This won the 2022 Prix de l’OIV. He was history editor of the Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture. He has around 20 articles\, book chapters / articles either published or forthcoming. These cover such issues as changing tastes in food and wine\, 19th century marketing and branding techniques\, 19th century retailing and distribution\, the gifting of champagne\, the concept of ‘cultural terroir’\, the gendering of consumption\, and ‘culture’ in history. He is an associate of the Oxford history faculty and attached to St Cross College\, Oxford\, where he is wine steward. \nThis talk will tell the history of champagne and sparkling wine from the earliest days. It is now produced all over the world but the focus of this talk will be on Europe – and particularly on the history of sparkling wine in Britain. Most of us have heard of Dom Pérignon but who was the first ‘Dom’ of sparkling wine and what role do bursting barrels play in the story? What vital discovery did a 17th century fellow of Worcester College publish? How and why did Moët & Chandon make a British ‘turn’ in the late 19th century? Who did and who did not bath in champagne (and how much might it cost to repeat the experience today)? The story will be told through six separate bottles and through the glasses and bottles that have been used over time for this drink of celebration and success. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/graham-harding-a-history-of-champagne-in-six-bottles/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250501T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
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UID:1732-1746108000-1746111600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Michael Pirie - Harry Rountree (1878–1950): an Introduction to a Popular and Prolific Animal Illustrator from New Zealand
DESCRIPTION:Michael Pirie has been head gardener at Green Templeton College since 1980 and ran a course on Oxford College gardens for many years at OUDCE. He now takes an interest in book illustration and commercial art from the first half of the 20th century. He has contributed numerous articles about Harry Rountree for the Imaginative Book Illustration Society (I.B.I.S.) and has written the entry for the artist in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/michael-pirie-harry-rountree-1878-1950-an-introduction-to-a-popular-and-prolific-animal-illustrator-from-new-zealand/
LOCATION:Oxford Friends Meeting House\, 43 St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LW
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250327T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165502Z
UID:1727-1743084000-1743087600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The AGM will be followed by a talk by Jackie Holderness on The Legend and Legacy of Frideswide\, Anglo-Saxon Princess and Oxford’s Patron Saint. \nJackie Holderness enjoyed a long career in education\, as teacher\, Ofsted inspector\, special educational needs co-ordinator and senior lecturer in education\, at Oxford Brookes University. Until the pandemic\, she spent six years working at Christ Church\, setting up the Cathedral Education programme. Currently\, she works\, part-time\, as secretary for Cathedrals Plus and she is also involved with the Oxford Chamber Music Festival. She has (almost) retired but chairs the Oxford Children’s Book Group and is a founder governor at the Europa School\, Culham. Since 1985\, she has written several educational books and materials. In 2019\, the Bodleian Library published her award-winning picture book\, The Princess who Hid in a Tree. Illustrated by Alan Marks\, it tells the story of Oxford’s patron saint\, Frideswide. Jackie has lived in Cumnor for over 30 years but has strong links with Binsey\, where she is establishing a community garden around the holy well\, which has long been associated with St Frideswide who dedicated it to St Margaret of Antioch. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250320T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T165238Z
UID:1725-1742479200-1742482800@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Susan Griffiths - Oxford University Museum of Natural History
DESCRIPTION:Susan Griffiths is a Community Engagement Officer for Oxford University Gardens\, Libraries and Museums. \nHer talk will explore the history and highlights from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/susan-griffiths-oxford-university-museum-of-natural-history/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250313T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165610Z
UID:1718-1741874400-1741878000@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:William Lawrence - Classical London with Allusions to Oxford
DESCRIPTION:William Lawrence spent two years teaching English in Japan (1980-1982) where he developed a great interest in the language and culture\, especially Sumo wrestling! On his return\, he went into teaching classics with posts at Solihull School (1983-1985)\, Highgate School (1985-2001) and New College School\, Oxford (2006-2011). He is now keen to promote an interest in the classical world by giving illustrated talks to schools and societies to show how the influence of Greece and Rome still surrounds us to this day. \nClassical London surveys the classical legacy all around us on the streets of London: it looks at street furniture\, shop signs\, advertisements and architecture and invites the visitor to look upwards! \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/william-lawrence-classical-london-with-allusions-to-oxford/
LOCATION:Oxford Friends Meeting House\, 43 St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LW
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250306T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250306T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165627Z
UID:1714-1741269600-1741273200@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Nick Gill - Irving Berlin: Prolific Song Writer of the Jazz Age
DESCRIPTION:Nick Gill is an Oxford based classic jazz and ragtime piano player/singer who has been giving performances in all kinds of different venues for many years. His activities also include musically illustrated talks on aspects of pre-war jazz and ragtime as well as the great musicians and song writers of the era. \nProlific song writer of the Jazz Age\, Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) was one of the most successful and ingenious of the Great American Songwriters. From humble beginnings as a singing waiter in the Bronx\, he established himself as the King of Tin Pan Alley and ensured life-long prosperity with Alexander’s Ragtime Band in 1911. He wrote many enduring classics for the Hollywood Musicals\, including Top Hat\, White Tie and Tails and Cheek to Cheek. In this talk we will look largely at his pre-World War II career. There will be numerous live musical interludes of songs displaying influences from ragtime\, jazz and the sensual art-deco elegance of the 1930s movies and shows. \n  \n  \nClassical London
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/nick-gill-irving-berlin-prolific-song-writer-of-the-jazz-age/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250227T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165648Z
UID:1711-1740664800-1740668400@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Anna Railton - Addressing Climate Change Issues in the City of Oxford
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anna Railton is a machine learning engineer for a tech company and a city councillor in Oxford. She is the cabinet member for Zero Carbon and Climate Justice as well as the deputy leader of the Oxford City Council.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-anna-railton-addressing-climate-change-issues-in-the-city-of-oxford/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165836Z
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UID:1709-1740060000-1740063600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Stuart Ackland - Oxford in Maps
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Ackland has worked in the Map Department of the Bodleian Library for over 30 years. He looks after the storage of over 2 million maps\, writes articles and blog posts and helps people from both inside and outside the University with any questions on maps they may have. \nHis talk will show the wide range of maps of Oxford held at the Bodleian\, including the earliest map\, maps from the Civil War and maps showing the social history of the city.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/stuart-ackland-oxford-in-maps/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165935Z
UID:1705-1739455200-1739458800@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Julia Brockelsby - A Short History of How We Tell the Time
DESCRIPTION:Julia Brockelsby was brought up in Littlemore\, Oxford and still lives there. After a BA in Economics from Girton College Cambridge\, she had several interesting careers\, collecting lots of bits of paper along the way: ten years as a polytechnic lecturer\, then as an accountant\, and joining a global manufacturer as an IT consultant in computer architecture for international systems and banking. By 2000 she was back in Oxford as head of department in an independent sixth form college. She is currently enjoying retirement after completing an Oxford University undergraduate diploma in Archaeology in the Department of Continuing Education. She spends her time researching\, studying\, travelling\, volunteering on archaeological projects and grappling with the astonishingly rich local history of Littlemore and its neighbours. \nJulia Brockelsby’s talk explores the nature and development of methods and reasons for wanting to define time\, using observation of the world to model and predict events.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/julia-brockelsby-a-short-history-of-how-we-tell-the-time/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165537Z
UID:1703-1738850400-1738854000@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Ray Foulk - Why and How Pablo Picasso Invented Modern Art
DESCRIPTION:Ray Foulk RIBA is co-author with Caroline Foulk of the historical novel\, Picasso’s Revenge. He is a renowned curator and author on French Art Deco masters and twentieth century decorative art. Ray has also written on the 1960s counterculture and rock festivals. As an award winning environmental architect\, he lives and works in Oxford\, near his four grown up children and grandchildren. \nThis talk concerns Picasso’s most powerful secret – that which triggered the art career to eclipse all others. The mystery centres on one painting\, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Its influence as a single painting is unparalleled in the entire history of art\, yet street surveys show it remains largely unknown to the public despite there being a huge public interest in art.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/ray-foulk-why-and-how-pablo-picasso-invented-modern-art/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250130T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250130T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165913Z
UID:1701-1738245600-1738249200@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Professor Emma Smith - Shakespeare in His Own Time
DESCRIPTION:Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College\, and the author of several books including This Is Shakespeare. \nHer talk focuses on Shakespeare during his own lifetime\, including his popularity in print and on stage\, his relationships with other writers\, and the extent to which his works drew on the contemporary world. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-emma-smith-shakespeare-in-his-own-time/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250123T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250123T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240828T165438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T165438Z
UID:1699-1737640800-1737644400@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Reverend Professor William Whyte - Opening Oxford: the Schwarzman Centre
DESCRIPTION:William Whyte is Professor of Social and Architectural History and a Fellow of St John’s College. He is currently serving as Senior Responsible Owner and Chair of Project Board for the Schwarzman Centre\, leading the building project\, which is due to be completed by autumn 2025. As an academic\, he writes on modern British architectural history. Beyond the University\, he is chair of the Oxford Preservation Trust and a trustee of English Heritage. \nThe Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities is Oxford University’s largest building project and the result of the largest ever gift given to the University. Bringing together seven departments\, seven libraries\, and suite of performance space – including a 500-seater concert hall\, it will transform how the humanities are studied here. It will also help change how town and gown relate to one another. Designed to be open to the public\, it represents a new sort of university building.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/reverend-professor-william-whyte-opening-oxford-the-schwarzman-centre/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241128T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T140422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T140422Z
UID:1693-1732802400-1732806000@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Professor Tim Coulson - The Universal History of Us: the Science of Why We Exist
DESCRIPTION:Tim Coulson is Professor of Zoology\, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College. \nHave you ever wondered why you exist? Tim Coulson has\, and after nearly dying from malaria\, he spent 30 years investigating what science could tell him about his existence. In this talk\, and his recent book\, The Universal History of Us\, he weaves scientific insight into how we came to be alive and conscious with parts of his story. Spanning 13.77 billion years\, and covering physics\, astronomy\, chemistry\, biology\, and psychology\, the Oxford Professor of Zoology will explore whether our existence was inevitable at the birth of the universe or if we are just incredibly lucky.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-tim-coulson-the-universal-history-of-us-the-science-of-why-we-exist/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241121T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T140121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T170430Z
UID:1689-1732197600-1732201200@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Muriel Pilkington - The Mitfords in the Cotswolds
DESCRIPTION:Muriel Pilkington read history at Oxford and then taught history in a number of schools in Hertfordshire. Her last teaching post was as head of Wycombe High School\, which is a large girls grammar school (now an academy). She was also vice-chairman of the senate at what is now Buckinghamshire New University. She took early retirement\, moved to Oxfordshire and has worked ever since as an educational consultant and writer. She also had time to take up an interest in local history and some of the talks offered are based in this county\, some are of national interest. \nThe Mitfords in the Cotswolds explains how and why a branch of a minor aristocratic family based near Morpeth in Northumberland came to have a series of homes in the Cotswolds from the early 19th century onwards. The fifth generation who lived in the area included the famous six sisters. They had an idyllic childhood in the Windrush Valley and then all went on to extraordinary lives and careers. Dr Pilkington’s talk focuses on these remarkable women. Much of the information and some of the pictures used in the talk were obtained from Rosemary Bailey (nee Mitford) who was a friend of Dr Pilkington. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-muriel-pilkington-the-mitfords-in-the-cotswolds/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T140456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T170534Z
UID:1691-1731592800-1731596400@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Nathan Boyd - Issues Facing Farmers in Oxfordshire
DESCRIPTION:Nathan Boyd is the NFU’s County Adviser for Berks\, Bucks and Oxon. He has been the County Adviser working to support farming members across the Thames Valley since January 2024\, previously working in politics and being a local councillor\, as well as a past life working in farming in South Oxfordshire. \nThis talk will discuss the issues facing farmers in Oxfordshire in the current climate\, and how farming could look in the future in our county. It will give a unique perspective on farming in Oxfordshire\, with the stress and challenges of a changing political landscape.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/nathan-boyd-issues-facing-farmers-in-oxfordshire/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T153128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T171508Z
UID:1687-1730988000-1730991600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Simon Keable-Elliott - Utterly Immoral\, Robert Keable\, WW1 Chaplain
DESCRIPTION:Educated at Sherborne School and Durham University\, Simon first worked in Fleet Street – as a barman – before managing and owning restaurants in London. He trained as a teacher and spent 25 years as Head of Politics and Director of Model United Nations at a secondary school in Croydon. He now works as a writer and speaker\, publishing his first book Utterly Immoral last year. Robert Keable was his grandfather. \nSimon Keable-Elliott discusses Robert Keable’s time as a chaplain during the First World War and the events that led him to write his notorious novel Simon Called Peter. He looks at the critical reception to the novel\, the attempts to ban it and the book’s great success. The author’s life was truly extraordinary. As a child he was an evangelical preacher. He won a scholarship to Cambridge\, became a priest\, worked in Zanzibar and Basutoland as a missionary and gained a reputation as a writer of devotional books. His life was changed by the war. Afterwards he left the church and later fled the country to go and live in Tahiti. He continued to write and remained an international celebrity throughout the 1920s. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/simon-keable-elliott-utterly-immoral-robert-keable-ww1-chaplain/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T140006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T140006Z
UID:1685-1730383200-1730386800@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Ross McGibbin - Understanding\, If We Can\, Juvenile Delinquency in Britain
DESCRIPTION:Ross McGibbin was formerly Tutor in Modern History\, St John’s College and is now Emeritus Fellow \nThis talk is about juvenile delinquency in Britain 1918-1970. And investigates what caused it\, what cured it\, insofar as it was cured; how successful were attempts at cure and was there a culture of delinquency?
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-ross-mcgibbin-understanding-if-we-can-juvenile-delinquency-in-britain/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T202709
CREATED:20240822T140210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T140210Z
UID:1683-1729778400-1729782000@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Christina Hardyment - Alyce Chaucer: Fact and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Christina Hardyment is best known for her many non-fiction books about the home and landscape and literature\, but over the last three years she has published a trilogy of history mysteries invented around Alyce Chaucer (1404-1475)\, the granddaughter of the famous Geoffrey Chaucer\, author of the Canterbury Tales. Very little is known of Alyce’s life\, and little remains of her palace at Ewelme\, near Wallingford but her magnificent tomb and the almshouses and school she founded in Ewelme are perfectly preserved. Widowed three times by the time she was 45\, she was one of the wealthiest women of her age\, the troubled times of the Wars of the Roses. \nChristina’s first two books about Alyce\, The Serpent of Division and The Book of the Duchess have sold well and been reprinted\, and the third\, Murder will Out\, is published in October 2024
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/christina-hardyment-alyce-chaucer-fact-and-fiction/
LOCATION:Rewley House\, Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford\, Rewley House\, 1 Wellington Square\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2JA\, United Kingdom
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