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History Society Meetings 2016

History Society, Meeting MinutesBy Aynho Admin 30 December 2015

Minutes of meetings held in 2016. January A History of Oxford University. [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”4618,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] February The 1948 London Olympics, its impact then and now. [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”4771,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] March “Out of Tragedy came forth liberation”, evacuations during WW2 [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”4957,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] April The…

History Society: The Magna Carta at Aynho Fete!

History SocietyBy Aynho Admin 25 April 2015

Magna Carta – The Aynho Connection You’ve probably heard that it will be the 800th anniversary of King John putting his seal on the Magna Carta at Runnymead on 15th June this year. What you may…

History Society: Programme of Events

History SocietyBy Jill 10 March 2015

History Society Meetings 2015

History Society, Meeting MinutesBy Aynho Admin 23 February 2015

Minutes of meetings held in 2015 January 2015 William Gill: Victorian explorer and spy [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”2878,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] February 2015 A review of Aynho related maps (advertised speaker postponed) [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”2986,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] March 2015 Votes for Women – The Suffrage Movement [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”3147,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″]…

History Society Meetings 2014

History Society, Meeting MinutesBy Jill 3 November 2014

Minutes of meetings held in 2014 January 2014 The Mitford Sisters [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1657,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] February 2014 Nothing much happened in Bicester apart from … [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1656,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] March 2014 Lord Nuffield and Morris Motors of Cowley [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1655,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] April 2014 Child labour in 19th…

Aynho Reading List

History SocietyBy Aynho Admin 30 July 2014

Here are some books you might find interesting about or related to the village: Aynho-A Northamptonshire Village by Nicholas Cooper The Apricot Village by Ted Humphris & Doris Palmer Garden Glory by Ted Humphris Lili at Aynhoe by Elizabeth Cartwright-Hignett The Recipe For Me by Betty Humphries The Revd.Dr.Robert Wilde 1615-1679 by David Roy Viles…

History Society: From Aynho to The Bounty – William Peckover’s Story

History SocietyBy Jill 23 July 2014

To Haxard my Life by Barry Marriott [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”2234,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] From a desire to Serve by Barry Marriott [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”2235,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] William Peckover’s Testimony [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”2692,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″]

History Society: A Military History of Aynho

History SocietyBy Jill 4 March 2014

Rupert Clark has compiled “A Military History of Aynho”, covering 8000 years of anecdotes, facts and feats of people connected to Aynho and the military. It is 224 pages with copious photographs and illustrations. Click below to download a copy. [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1645,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″]

History Society Meetings 2013

History Society, Meeting MinutesBy Jill 3 December 2013

Minutes of meetings held in 2013 January 2013 Healthy, Wealthy and Wise – history of local medical services through the ages [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1686,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] February 2013 Banbury Past through Artists’ eyes [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1687,” hidefilter=”true” hidesort=”true” hidesearch=”true” filesPerPage=”3″] March 2013 Archives Matter – a National and Local perspective [prettyfilelist type=”pdf,xls,doc,zip,ppt,img,mp3″ filestoshow=”1685,” hidefilter=”true”…

History Society: The Kindness of the Apricot Village

History SocietyBy Jill 5 September 2013

My Mother and I got off of a bus in the village late one afternoon in early November in 1940. Having left burning London early that morning after our Anderson air raid shelter was made unusable with us in it by a too close for comfort bomb, being surrounded by bomb damage and sleeping under…