King George V’s Coronation Sports June 1911.
Married Ladies’ Egg and Spoon Race.
Aynho High Street, 1930s.
Aynho History Society welcomes you to our lectures on local, national and international history
Programme 2024
- 27th March The Wonder of Woodstock by Pippa Gwilliam
- 24th April West Haddon’s Enclosure Riot by Wendy Raybould
- 22nd May The History of Waddesdon’s Gardens by Maureen Paterson
- 26th June The Air Transport Auxiliary: a little known story by Kevin O’Regan
- 25th September Secrets & Scandals at Canons Ashby by Laura Malpass
- 23rd October Pork Pie Heaven by John Paul Carr
- 27th November AGM / surprise speaker / quiz
History & Tour of Aynho Village (updated 2017)
The Kindness of Aynho Village by Arnold (Bill) Pyatt
A Military History by Rupert Clark
Mutiny on the Bounty
Previous Meeting Minutes
2020 / 2019 Minutes of Meetings
January 2020 The Oxford Canal
November 2019
AGM + 20 things you didn’t know about Peter Cole
October 2019
Oxford Castle + Prison from Oxanfora to Malmaison
September 2019
Rainsborough, the iron Age Fort
June 2019
The Life and Times of the Culworth Gang
May 2019
Inventions and Inventors of Victorian Northamptonshire
April 2019
The Sheep that ate Men
March 2019
The Romantic Decline – Preserving Chastleton House
February 2019
The History of Privies
January 2019
Farnborough Hall
2018 Minutes of Meetings
November 2018
AGM and Facts about the soldiers from Aynho who died in WW1
October 2018
Hitler’s Retirement Plans
September 2018
The Harold Peto Garden at Iford Manor
June 2018
James Seccull – A story of a family from Aynho to Melbourne, Australia.
May 2018
The Rothschild Family and Waddesdon Manor.
April 2018
Portway – a History
March 2018
The Hidden Village. Wartime Holland! Who can you trust?
February 2018
Morris and Mumming – a short history
January 2018
The Life and Music of Chris Barber
2017 Minutes of Meetings
November 2017
AGM and a delve into the archives
October 2017
100th Meeting celebrating the founding members
September 2017
A History of Libraries
June 2017
A Sunday afternoon with a school log book’. A review of Aynho school.
May 2017
The Cold War in Oxfordshire
April 2017
The History of Royal Woodstock
March 2017
The Remarkable Story of Stowe House
February 2017
Postcards and photos of Aynho 1902 – 1920
January 2017
Brackley – from the Iron Age to the Wars of the Roses
2016 Minutes of Meetings
November 2016
An update of local archeological digs + AGM
October 2016
The epic search for the North West Passage.
June 2016
Beer, Sausages and Marmalade – a history of Oxford’s foods
April 2016
The Mary Rose, a window into Tudor life at sea
March 2016
“Out of Tragedy came forth liberation”, evacuations during WW2
February 2016
The 1948 London Olympics, its impact then and now
January 2016
A History of Oxford University.
2015 Minutes of Meetings
November 2015
Royalty, Religion and Relics” – 20 more things you did not know about Aynho.
October 2015
The Poor Law in 18th century England: The crisis in the parishes
September 2015
The Bicycle – its Evolution and Impact on the World
July 2015
The History of the Oxford Canal
June 2015
Waterloo and the battle for Chateau Hougoumont
April 2015
Women at War
March 2015
Votes for Women – The Suffrage Movement
January 2015
William Gill – Victorian Explorer and Spy
2014 Minutes of Meetings
December 2014
Twenty things you may not know about Aynho + Pubs and Inns in Aynho
October 2014
A History of Ditchley Park
September 2014
Was Britain ready for The Great War? Northamptonshire’s preparations in 1913
July 2014
‘Lili at Aynhoe’ – an artist’s analysis of her life and work
June 2014
Royal Mistresses 1509 – Present Day
May 2014
The EU – Past, Present & Future
April 2014
Child labour in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire
March 2014
Lord Nuffield and Morris Motors of Cowley
February 2014
Nothing much happened in Bicester apart from ……
January 2014
The Mitford Sisters
2013 Minutes of Meetings
November 2013
Before the White Queen + Britain’s battlefields
October 2013
‘From Gough to Google’, the development of printed maps of Oxfordshire
September 2013
Leisure and Entertainment in Victorian and Edwardian Oxford
July 2013
A History and Tour of Friars Well
June 2013
A Career in Ruins – The Life of an Archaeologist
May 2013
Sex, Drink and Death in the 17th Century
April 2013
Humphry Repton – Understand his impact on the Ashridge and Aynho Estate Landscape
March 2013
Archives Matter – a National and Local perspective
February 2013
Banbury’s Past through Artists’ eyes – painting, prints and drawings, sources for Banbury’s local history
January 2013
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise – A history of the local medical services through the ages
2012 Minutes of Meetings
October 2012
The City, Livery Companies, etc.
September 2012
Captain Cook’s Voyages and the Aynho Connection
July 2012
St. Michael’s House
June 2012
Aynho – A Military History, the heroes and horrors of 2000 years of conflict
May 2012
Upstairs – Downstairs at Aynhoe Park
April 2012
The Civil War in Oxfordshire
March 2012
Banbury – Historic Town or Shopper’s Paradise?
February 2012
Genealogy for Beginners
January 2012
The Grand Tour
2011 Minutes of Meetings
November 2011
The Centenary of King’s Sutton School
October 2011
St Michael’s Church, Aynho
June 2011
Ridge and Furrow
May 2011
The History of the Grammar House
April 2011
Drove-Roads in the South Midlands
March 2011
The Cartwright Papers – The Life of William Ralph squire of Aynho from 1792 -1847
February 2011
Photographs of Old Aynho
January 2011
Musical Instruments through History
2010 Minutes of Meetings
November 2010
Aynho Viaduct
June 2010
Place Names, Landscape and Early Settlement in the Banbury Area
May 2010
Those Coaching Days
April 2010
The Cartwrights at Edgcote
March 2010
Memories of Aynho School
February 2010
The Role of the Country Carrier
January 2010
The Cartwright Papers – Cartwright family’s life in the decade of the 1880s
2009 Minutes of Meetings
November 2009
The Art & History of Middleton Cheney Church
September 2009
England’s Canals – Past & Present
May 2009
Lark Rise to Candleford