Meetings & Events

Monthly Meetings Programme

• When: Second Wednesday of each month (except August & December).

• Time: 7:45pm for an 8:00pm start.

• Location: St. Mary's Church, Centre of Wallingford.

• Admission: Free for TWHAS members; Visitors are warmly welcome (£5.00 entry fee. Cash only please).

Meetings include a guest lecture on regional history or archaeology, followed by society announcements.

Parking is available nearby in the Waitrose car park - free at that time of the evening.

Wed 11 November 2026 | Roundup on the year in Oxfordshire development archaeology

Richard Oram (OCC)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS Talk in December ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OTHER TALKS :-

OTHER TALKS !!

As well as the above monthly TWHAS Talks, there will be two other Wednesday evening talks at St Mary’s Church, which are being organised by The Friends of St Mary’s and St Leonard’s Church. The talks are free to attend but there will be a retiring collection in aid of the St Mary’s eco heating project:

On October 21 our own TWHAS chairman, Steve Capel-Davies, will be giving a talk on his specialist subject ‘Life on the Thames’, which will include the way people made their living from the river by fishing, harvesting reeds and willows, working on the locks and weirs, and transport through the centuries including work in the London docks.

Then on December 9 Susie Wilmot will be talking about and lavishly illustrating ‘Nativity in Art” by investigating how artists have told the Christmas Story through the Ages. (There will be mulled wine and mince pies on offer too that evening!)

Further details from the “Friends of St Mary’s & St Leonard’s” website:-

https://www.friendswallingford.org.uk

Katharine Keats-Rohan is the TWHAS Speaker's secretary. If you have suggestions for future talks, please contact Katharine

If other local history societies would like to notify us of their events for possible inclusion (subject to space) in the monthly publication, TWHAS Now, then please send details to the TWHAS Now editor

2026

14 Jan 2026 Dr Ed Caswell Bronze Age Oxfordshire - Was it the Wild West of its Day?

11 Feb 2026 Jonathan Stamp The Summer of '43

11 Mar 2026 Andy Hood On-going excavations at Winterbrook and New Barn Farm by Foundations Archaeology

8 Apr 2026 Judy Dewey Agatha Christie 1890-1976: a Fiftieth Anniversary retrospective

13 May 2026 Ben Ford Reflections on recent archaeological discoveries in Oxford

10 Jun 2026 Joe Trevorrow Drawings in the Jungle - the wonders of Makunaimá Cave

8 Jul 2026 Charles Boundy Before the Conquest – Wessex versus the Vikings – the wider picture

9 Sep 2026 Simon Townley South Oxfordshire Chilterns, with special reference to Crowmarsh Gifford and Newnham Murren

14 Oct 2026 Garry Elliott Shops and Shopping in Victorian Wallingford

2025

8 Jan 2025 Sharon Bennett Connolly Women of the Anarchy

12 Feb 2025 Anthony Bale The Shape of the Medieval World, according to John Mandeville

12 Mar 2025 Steve Capel-Davies Barley to Beer, the Story of Malting, Brewing and Pubs in Wallingford

19 Mar 2025 Malin Holst If Ancestors Could Talk - Life and Death at a Roman Villa

9 Apr 2025 Simon Randall Civil War in the Cotswolds

14 May 2025 Ashley Jackson Oxford's War, 1939-45

11 Jun 2025 Sue Wright Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC) Architecture and its Conservation

9 Jul 2025 Joe Trevorrow Into the Jungle - Archaeology, Amerindians and Adventures in Guyana's Forested Frontier

10 Sep 2025 Judy Dewey From Tudor Trauma to new Prosperity: How Wallingford survived!

8 Oct 2025 The Abingdon Abbey Buildings: their history, their condition, and the enhancement plans

12 Nov 2025 Richard Oram County Archaeology Roundup

15 Nov 2025 'Find our Past' Researching Wallingford's History Study Day

2024

10 Jan 2024 Judy Dewey Life in Medieval Wallingford

13 Mar 2024 Graham Twemlow Recording Britain - Celebrating the Country's Natural Beauty and Architectural Heritage

10 Apr 2024 Jonathan Stamp The Lost Library

8 May 2024 Peter Adamson A Town Called Wallingford

12 Jun 2024 Anthony Wilder William Wilder - POW on the Thai Burma Railway

10 Jul 2024 Alastair Owens Treasures from the Privy - New perspectives on everyday life in Victorian East London Recorded

11 Sep 2024 John Painter Reading Abbey and the Abbey Quarter

9 Oct 2024 Steve Capel-Davies Ways over Water - A history of Thames crossings

13 Nov 2024 Malcolm Airs Conservation as a force for change: Wallingford from 1974

2023

11 Jan 2023 Robert Seatter Broadcasting Britain: A 100 years of the BBC

8 Feb 2023 Ben Ford Frewin Hall Excavation

8 Mar 2023 Peter Adamson The World of the Wittenham Clumps

12 Apr 2023 Judy Dewey History for all: TWHAS – from its origins to its future

10 May 2023 Heidi Tunney Pauper Children in Wallingford Union Cottage Homes, Berks, 1900–15; Tainted or Recovered?

14 Jun 2023 Paul Booth Evolving ideas on Roman and early post-Roman Dorchester-on-Thames

12 Jul 2023 Gary Elliott Justice in Wallingford: Police and Magistrates in the late Victorian period

13 Sep 2023 John Naylor The Viking-Age World of the Watlington Hoard

11 Oct 2023 Anthony Wilder Victorian Artists

8 Nov 2023 Tom Hassall 50 years of Oxford Archaeology and TWHAS 50th Birthday Party

2022

12 Jan 2022 Stephen Mileson Peasant perceptions of Landscape, Ewelme Hundred

9 Feb 2022 Jonathan Clark Lincoln Castle Revealed

9 Mar 2022 Ben Taggart Historic Reconstruction in Miniature Watch on YouTube

13 Apr 2022 Marie-Louise Kerr Oxfordshire on Canvas

11 May 2022 Melanie King Can onions cure earache? Medical Advice in the 18th century

8 Jun 2022 Gabor Thomas The Marlow warlord and the rediscovered church at Cookham

13 Jul 2022 Janice Kinory Oxford Past and Present - Images from the HEIR Project

14 Sep 2022 Giles Pritchard Conservation work on the Remains of the College of St Nicholas, Wallingford Castle Watch on YouTube

12 Oct 2022 Michael Fulford Silchester Revealed: the Iron Age and Roman Town in light of recent research Watch on YouTube

9 Nov 2022 Dr Simon Wenham Poverty, Pestilence and Public Health

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