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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250529T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T212241
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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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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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CREATED:20240831T160705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T171505Z
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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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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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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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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
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CREATED:20240828T165555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T165238Z
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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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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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CREATED:20240828T165627Z
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250220T150000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250213T150000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260817T212241
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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T150000
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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
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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
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CREATED:20240822T140210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240822T140210Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T212241
CREATED:20240822T140234Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Raymond PierreHumbert - Exoplanets: The New Frontier
DESCRIPTION:Raymond Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society. He has been awarded the title of Chevelier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Republic of France\, for his work on climate. \nThis lecture will introduce the audience to the new world of exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our own. A mere 30 years ago\, it was not really known if the solar system was the only system hosting planets in the galaxy; now we know it is almost impossible for a star to form without also forming planets. This represents a giant step on the way to answering the question of whether we are alone in the universe. This talk will be based on the author’s book Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction\, with updates to incorporate the latest data from the James Webb space telescope. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-raymond-pierrehumbert-exoplanets-the-new-frontier/
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:20241010T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241010T150000
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CREATED:20240822T140311Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Katherine Bradley - No Corsets! The Rational Dress Movement Comes to Oxford
DESCRIPTION:Dr Katherine Bradley is a retired university lecturer. She taught modern European and British history at Oxford Brookes University and the Open University. She was also a tutor at Denman College (the Women’s Institute College)\, where she taught women’s history. In addition\, she founded and co-ordinated the Oxford International Women’s Festival. Over the last 35 years this has celebrated women’s achievements as well as campaigned for local women’s issues. Since her retirement she has given talks to a variety of local groups. Her talks focus and combine her long-term interests with 19th and 20th century local history and women’s history. \nHave you ever wondered how women’s clothes changed from the crinoline and bustle to the simple clothes that women wear now?  During the 19th and early 20th centuries a women’s movement developed throughout Britain\, most notably concerned with women’s suffrage. Another section of this movement were women and men concerned with dress and how this hampered women’s emancipation. This talk will examine the development of this movement\, its links with the suffrage movement\, employment and education.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/dr-katherine-bradley-no-corsets-the-rational-dress-movement-comes-to-oxford/
LOCATION:The John Wesley Room\, Wesley Memorial Church\, New Inn Hall Street\, Oxford\, OX1 2DH
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T150000
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CREATED:20240822T140047Z
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UID:1675-1727964000-1727967600@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Stephanie Holt - Gilbert White: His Life\, Legacy\, and Impact on Natural History Today
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Holt has been working at the Natural History Museum in London for the last 10 years in the Centre for UK Nature\, following a career in conservation\, ecological planning and consultancy\, and academia. She is fascinated by British natural history\, her specialisms include bats\, amphibians\, and some invertebrate groups\, but also by the history of natural history.  She is currently studying ‘Historical Studies’ at the University of Oxford\, and will be embarking on a DPhil in October looking at natural history in the eighteenth century\, and how it influences work today. She is a fellow and trustee of the British Naturalists Association\, fellow and former trustee of the Linnean Society of London\, and associate editor for Archives of Natural History\, the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History. \nAs a natural historian Steph has always been fascinated by the history and origins of her study and science. Gilbert White is often termed the ‘father of ecology’\, and while he would not have known that term himself\, his work did pave the way for the development of ecology as a science. White himself was influenced by his time in Oxford and London\, as well as his native village of Selborne in Hampshire\, where his masterpiece The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne was written. This book is the fourth longest constantly in print book in the English language and has influenced so many who have come after him\, including notably Charles Darwin and David Attenborough. In this talk Steph will delve into White’s life\, work\, and his legacy\, and indeed how (and why) we can all follow in his footsteps as naturalists today.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/stephanie-holt-gilbert-white-his-life-legacy-and-impact-on-natural-history-today/
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:20240926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T150000
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UID:1673-1727359200-1727362800@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Jamie Williams - Excavations at Butts Piece\, Stanton Harcourt\, Oxfordshire
DESCRIPTION:Jamie Williams is a graduate of the University of Reading and has worked for Thames Valley Archaeological Services for 8 years. He has worked on many wonderful sites both as a digger and as a supervisor\, with highlights being the Roman Villa of Tackley\, a possible pre-Roman-conquest trading site in Buckinghamshire\, and\, of course\, Stanton Harcourt. \nThe excavations at Stanton Harcourt revealed vast amounts of archaeology ranging from mesolithic through to WWII activity\, with the main focus of the site being the dense Iron Age occupation in the form of ~1\,700 storage pits that was featured on Digging for Britain (Series 10\, Ep 4). The excavation also uncovered an Anglo-Saxon settlement of 20+ post-built timber buildings which might be the original village of Stanton. Finds and features from other time periods were also present\, including several Roman enclosures along the southern boundary of the pits. This site adds to the tapestry of rich and complex history of occupation uncovered around the Stanton Harcourt area. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/jamie-williams-excavations-at-butts-piece-stanton-harcourt-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:20240613T140000
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SUMMARY:Maurice East -'Rent Strike in Little Rhondda' - Homes Fit for No One in 1930s Florence Park. How the Growth of Morris Motors Brought Miners\, Communists and Cowboy Builders to Cowley.
DESCRIPTION:Maurice East was born and raised in Headington\, Oxford\, and specializes in researching and telling some of the lesser-known stories about the city. He is particularly interested in the history of car production in Oxford and how the rise of the factory impacted on the urban\, social\, and political landscape. He has strong family connections to the factory\, and is passionate about telling the stories of the people who worked there. In addition to public speaking\, he also devises and leads original walking tours around the city. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/maurice-east-rent-strike-in-little-rhondda-homes-fit-for-no-one-in-1930s-florence-park-how-the-growth-of-morris-motors-brought-miners-communists-and-cowboy-builders-to-cowley/
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:20240606T140000
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SUMMARY:Lizzy Rowe - Who Was Hundertwasser?
DESCRIPTION:Lizzy Rowe is an art historian who studied at the Courtauld Institute in London before joining English Heritage as a guidebook editor. She currently lives in Oxford where she teaches Art History in primary schools\, as well as giving guided tours and talks. \nHer lively talk on the Austrian artist and architect\, Friedrich Hundertwasser\, will give an overview of a principled life lived to the full and always with a sense of fun and a desire to make the world a more beautiful place. His work is characterised by bright colours and organic forms and his most famous building\, the colourful Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna\, epitomizes his belief in the godlessness of the straight line and has typically uneven floors and spontaneously sprouting vegetation. \n 
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/lizzy-rowe-who-was-hundertwasser/
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:20240530T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T212241
CREATED:20230727T090514Z
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UID:1504-1717077600-1717081200@www.u3aoxford.org.uk
SUMMARY:Professor Gareth Winrow - The Butcher\, The Tailor\, The Picture-Frame Maker…Stories of Middle Way
DESCRIPTION:A Professor of International Relations who lived in Turkey for twenty years\, Gareth now specialises in local\, social and family history. \nThis talk will focus on the stories of individuals connected with the land and property in Summertown where Gareth now lives. He provides an alternative history of Oxford\, exploring how Summertown developed from being primarily an artisans’ village to becoming a well-heeled suburb of Oxford.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/professor-gareth-winrow-the-butcher-the-tailor-the-picture-frame-makerstories-of-middle-way/
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:20240523T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T150000
DTSTAMP:20260817T212241
CREATED:20230727T090318Z
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SUMMARY:Louise Dearnley - The Rhodes Trust in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Louise Dearnley is the Deputy Warden for Selection and Scholar Affairs at the Rhodes Trust. In this role\, Louise is responsible for the arc of the Rhodes Scholar experience – leading the teams doing global outreach\, selection\, Scholar Programming and Scholar Affairs. \nPrior to her time at the Rhodes Trust\, Louise spent 20 years in the private sector working for IBM\, Deutsche Bank\, GE and the Metro Group. She has worked in risk management\, sustainability and marketing\, whilst always making time for her passion of coaching young potentials in leadership practices. \nLouise holds a degree in Philosophy\, Politics & Economics from St Hilda’s College\, Oxford. \nThe Rhodes Trust is a global charity which brings together communities of unlikeminded but like-hearted people\, who are impatient to change the world. Rhodes House is the home of the world’s pre-eminent graduate fellowship\, the Rhodes Scholarship\, based at the University of Oxford since 1903. In its second century\, the Trust is expanding the Rhodes Scholarships globally and broadening its impact through partnerships that develop exceptional leaders across different life stages and areas of focus. This talk will give an overview of the organisation\, its programmes and its work with visionary partners.
URL:https://www.u3aoxford.org.uk/event/louise-dearnley-the-rhodes-trust-in-the-21st-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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