TWHAS Talks are currently being broadcast live via Zoom.
The Talks will begin at 8.00pm
A link will be sent to TWHAS members by email.
The Talks will begin at 8.00pm
A link will be sent to TWHAS members by email.
2022 Programme
We hope to return to Monthly Meetings at St Mary's Church in April 2022.
In the meantime, the Jan Feb March Talks will be by Zoom.
Meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month (except August and December) at St Mary's Church, Wallingford.
Meetings are at 7.45pm for 8.00pm
Parking is available nearby in the Waitrose car park - free at that time of the evening.
Visitors welcome (£4)
In the meantime, the Jan Feb March Talks will be by Zoom.
Meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month (except August and December) at St Mary's Church, Wallingford.
Meetings are at 7.45pm for 8.00pm
Parking is available nearby in the Waitrose car park - free at that time of the evening.
Visitors welcome (£4)
12 January (Weds) ~~ by ZOOM ~~
Stephen Mileson: 'Peasant perceptions of Landscape, Ewelme Hundred'
Our speaker is Stephen Mileson, who is an inspiring landscape historian with a strong academic track record.
Between 2012 – 15 Stephen initiated and lead the Oxford University research project: “Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, c500-1650”
This South Oxfordshire Project is an ambitious programme of research on the south Oxfordshire vale and Chilterns covering the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Its objective is to investigate how inhabitants shaped their social world and identity in relation to the places in which they lived. The project has provided a sustained analysis of ordinary rural people's experiences and outlook in the medieval and early modern periods and offered new insights into villagers' construction of social space and the way that settlement layouts influenced behaviour. More than 1,000 years of local history were studied, drawing on extensive records in manorial documents, place-name history, and archaeology.
9 February (Weds) ~~ by ZOOM ~~
Jonathan Clark: 'Lincoln Castle Revealed'
Our speaker, Jonathan Clark, is the Lincoln Cathedral Archaeologist. Jonathan has led a team of archaeologists, historians and volunteers to better understand Lincoln Castle by excavations undertaken from 2008 to 2014.
These became the foundations for the ‘Lincoln Castle Revealed’ project, a four-year, £22 million plan to create a new visitors centre, a vault to house the Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest, and restore Lincoln Castle Prison.
Lincoln Castle is one of England’s greatest castles and covers history from the Roman fortress of Lindum Colonia to the present day.
The project has recently been awarded a grant for an ambitious 3-D reconstruction of the 12th-century form of Lincoln Castle.
It will be interesting to compare and contrast Lincoln and Wallingford Castles!
9 March (Weds)
Ben Taggart: 'Modelling Houses, Modelling Castles'
13 April (Weds)
Marie-Louise Kerr: 'Oxfordshire on Canvas'
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2021 programme - just for interest
January
Stephen Wass: 'Voyages to the House of Diversion: Garden Urns and the Destruction of the seventeenth-century Gardens at Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire'
Feb
John Painter, ‘Reading Abbey – 900 years and still going’ (deferred from Sept 2020)
March
Bill King: 'The Thames At War' (deferred from April 2020)
April
Julian Munby: 'Oxford Castle'
May
Richard Oram: ‘Wallingford: Oxfordshire’s Oldest Town?’
June
Elizabeth Popescu: 'Excavation of the cemetery of St Augustine's, Stoke Quay, Ipswich'
July
Steve Capel-Davies: 'The River Thames - How it Shaped our Region'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in August ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sept
Andy Hood: Archaeological investigation at the Cross Keys, Wallingford
Oct
Chris Boyce: Benjamin Disraeli - Life and Times
Nov
Stephen Barker: 'Five Indian Pilots of the Great War'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in December ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Stephen Mileson: 'Peasant perceptions of Landscape, Ewelme Hundred'
Our speaker is Stephen Mileson, who is an inspiring landscape historian with a strong academic track record.
Between 2012 – 15 Stephen initiated and lead the Oxford University research project: “Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, c500-1650”
This South Oxfordshire Project is an ambitious programme of research on the south Oxfordshire vale and Chilterns covering the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Its objective is to investigate how inhabitants shaped their social world and identity in relation to the places in which they lived. The project has provided a sustained analysis of ordinary rural people's experiences and outlook in the medieval and early modern periods and offered new insights into villagers' construction of social space and the way that settlement layouts influenced behaviour. More than 1,000 years of local history were studied, drawing on extensive records in manorial documents, place-name history, and archaeology.
9 February (Weds) ~~ by ZOOM ~~
Jonathan Clark: 'Lincoln Castle Revealed'
Our speaker, Jonathan Clark, is the Lincoln Cathedral Archaeologist. Jonathan has led a team of archaeologists, historians and volunteers to better understand Lincoln Castle by excavations undertaken from 2008 to 2014.
These became the foundations for the ‘Lincoln Castle Revealed’ project, a four-year, £22 million plan to create a new visitors centre, a vault to house the Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest, and restore Lincoln Castle Prison.
Lincoln Castle is one of England’s greatest castles and covers history from the Roman fortress of Lindum Colonia to the present day.
The project has recently been awarded a grant for an ambitious 3-D reconstruction of the 12th-century form of Lincoln Castle.
It will be interesting to compare and contrast Lincoln and Wallingford Castles!
9 March (Weds)
Ben Taggart: 'Modelling Houses, Modelling Castles'
13 April (Weds)
Marie-Louise Kerr: 'Oxfordshire on Canvas'
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2021 programme - just for interest
January
Stephen Wass: 'Voyages to the House of Diversion: Garden Urns and the Destruction of the seventeenth-century Gardens at Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire'
Feb
John Painter, ‘Reading Abbey – 900 years and still going’ (deferred from Sept 2020)
March
Bill King: 'The Thames At War' (deferred from April 2020)
April
Julian Munby: 'Oxford Castle'
May
Richard Oram: ‘Wallingford: Oxfordshire’s Oldest Town?’
June
Elizabeth Popescu: 'Excavation of the cemetery of St Augustine's, Stoke Quay, Ipswich'
July
Steve Capel-Davies: 'The River Thames - How it Shaped our Region'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in August ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sept
Andy Hood: Archaeological investigation at the Cross Keys, Wallingford
Oct
Chris Boyce: Benjamin Disraeli - Life and Times
Nov
Stephen Barker: 'Five Indian Pilots of the Great War'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in December ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2020 programme - just for interest
Jan
Marie-Louise Kerr (Curator Without Museum): ‘Oxford's Penicillin’
Feb
Dr Elaine Jamieson (Reading University): ‘Medieval Castles and the Reuse of Ancient Places’
March
Tim Allen (Oxford Archaeology): `New light on Wallingford's southern suburb: excavations at the former Police Station, Reading Road'.
April no meeting - talk POSTPONED until March 2021
Bill King: The Thames At War
May no meeting - talk given online 14th Oct 2020 - see links below
Dr Edward Peveler (Landscape Heritage Officer, Chilterns Conservation Board): 'Beacons of the Past: Citizen Science and LiDAR shedding light on the history of the Chilterns landscape'
June no meeting - talk POSTPONED until later date
John Smith: The Battle of Britain
July no meeting - talk POSTPONED until Oct 2021
Tim Smith: 'Youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies - a history of tuberculosis'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in August ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sept no meeting - talk POSTPONED until Feb 2021
John Painter (secretary - Friends of Reading Abbey): 'Reading Abbey - 900 years and still going'
Oct TWHAS' first Zoom Talk - 14th October
'Beacons of the Past: Citizen Science and LiDAR shedding light on the history of the Chilterns landscape'
- presented by Dr Edward Peveler (Landscape Heritage Officer, Chilterns Conservation Board)
The results of the UK’s largest ever archaeological LiDAR survey have recently been made publicly available for citizen science analysis. The 1400 km2 survey, covering the Chilterns AONB and its surroundings, records the topography of the landscape in great detail. Any archaeological sites surviving as earthworks, even just a few centimetres high, will be detected, giving us evidence of people living and working in the region from the Neolithic to the 20th Century. The technique is particularly powerful in wooded landscapes, able to show up sites beneath the tree canopy where archaeological survey has traditionally been very difficult; with more than 20% tree coverage, the Chilterns AONB has many secrets to reveal. In this talk Dr Ed Peveler will be introducing this Lottery-funded project, explaining more about the survey, letting us know how we can access the data to do our own archaeological exploring, and showing us some of the exciting results that are already emerging.
Dr Ed Peveler is the Landscape Heritage Officer at the Chilterns Conservation Board, responsible for the technical elements of the Beacons of the Past project, and for the development and delivery of volunteering opportunities such as skills workshops. Prior to joining CCB, Ed completed his AHRC-funded DPhil at the University of Oxford, investigating the process of construction and building materials in Roman Oxfordshire. He also worked as Assistant Director of the University of Oxford excavations at the Roman small town of Dorchester on Thames between 2014 and 2017, and has excavated at sites in Britain, Italy, Albania, Tunisia, and India.
Ed's recorded talk is HERE
After viewing the Talk, if you would like further information please look at this link:- https://chilternsbeacons.org
Up-to-date news (more being added regularly) is available on:- https://chilternsbeacons.org/wp/news-blog
Nov a TWHAS Zoom Talk
Dr Jane Harrison: Early Anglo-Saxons in the Upper Thames Valley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in December ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Marie-Louise Kerr (Curator Without Museum): ‘Oxford's Penicillin’
Feb
Dr Elaine Jamieson (Reading University): ‘Medieval Castles and the Reuse of Ancient Places’
March
Tim Allen (Oxford Archaeology): `New light on Wallingford's southern suburb: excavations at the former Police Station, Reading Road'.
April no meeting - talk POSTPONED until March 2021
Bill King: The Thames At War
May no meeting - talk given online 14th Oct 2020 - see links below
Dr Edward Peveler (Landscape Heritage Officer, Chilterns Conservation Board): 'Beacons of the Past: Citizen Science and LiDAR shedding light on the history of the Chilterns landscape'
June no meeting - talk POSTPONED until later date
John Smith: The Battle of Britain
July no meeting - talk POSTPONED until Oct 2021
Tim Smith: 'Youth grows pale and spectre thin and dies - a history of tuberculosis'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in August ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sept no meeting - talk POSTPONED until Feb 2021
John Painter (secretary - Friends of Reading Abbey): 'Reading Abbey - 900 years and still going'
Oct TWHAS' first Zoom Talk - 14th October
'Beacons of the Past: Citizen Science and LiDAR shedding light on the history of the Chilterns landscape'
- presented by Dr Edward Peveler (Landscape Heritage Officer, Chilterns Conservation Board)
The results of the UK’s largest ever archaeological LiDAR survey have recently been made publicly available for citizen science analysis. The 1400 km2 survey, covering the Chilterns AONB and its surroundings, records the topography of the landscape in great detail. Any archaeological sites surviving as earthworks, even just a few centimetres high, will be detected, giving us evidence of people living and working in the region from the Neolithic to the 20th Century. The technique is particularly powerful in wooded landscapes, able to show up sites beneath the tree canopy where archaeological survey has traditionally been very difficult; with more than 20% tree coverage, the Chilterns AONB has many secrets to reveal. In this talk Dr Ed Peveler will be introducing this Lottery-funded project, explaining more about the survey, letting us know how we can access the data to do our own archaeological exploring, and showing us some of the exciting results that are already emerging.
Dr Ed Peveler is the Landscape Heritage Officer at the Chilterns Conservation Board, responsible for the technical elements of the Beacons of the Past project, and for the development and delivery of volunteering opportunities such as skills workshops. Prior to joining CCB, Ed completed his AHRC-funded DPhil at the University of Oxford, investigating the process of construction and building materials in Roman Oxfordshire. He also worked as Assistant Director of the University of Oxford excavations at the Roman small town of Dorchester on Thames between 2014 and 2017, and has excavated at sites in Britain, Italy, Albania, Tunisia, and India.
Ed's recorded talk is HERE
After viewing the Talk, if you would like further information please look at this link:- https://chilternsbeacons.org
Up-to-date news (more being added regularly) is available on:- https://chilternsbeacons.org/wp/news-blog
Nov a TWHAS Zoom Talk
Dr Jane Harrison: Early Anglo-Saxons in the Upper Thames Valley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ no TWHAS talks in December ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Additionally, you may wish to learn about two local archaeological projects which have recently posted updates online.
Click HERE
Click HERE
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
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