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Previous events include a visit to the Oxford Union (left) – surely the most famous student debating society in the world and a lively Low Energy Seminar (right) held in the Jacqueline du Pré building of St Hilda’s College and led by a panel of experts. |
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no pre-booking, members free, non-members join us or £4 at the door
Thursday 9 February: The future of Oxford, viewed through the lens of the past
Magdalen College Auditorium, Longwall Street
Tea/coffee 7.30 pm, talk 8 pm
John Melvin, an award-winning architect and town planner, has known Oxford for 40 years. In his recent book, The Stones of Oxford: Conjectures on a Cockleshell, he is critical of commercial Oxford. In a city where much land is owned by the council and colleges, he examines whether Oxford has been well served by past planning decisions. He will focus on the visual consequences of these decisions and in particular on the future of shopping centres in Oxford.
Tuesday 6 March: Town and Gown in Oxford
Magdalen College Auditorium, Longwall Street
Tea/coffee 7.30 pm, talk 8 pm
Christopher Day, Fellow of Kellogg College, is a highly regarded expert on the history of Oxford
University and the county of Oxfordshire. In this talk, he will concentrate on the long and often
uneasy relationship between Town and Gown over the centuries, from the St Scholastica's Day riot in
1355 at the Swyndelstock tavern by Carfax through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the
present time.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Thursday 15 March
Magdalen College Auditorium, Longwall Street |
Tea/coffee at the start of the evening will be followed by a pre-AGM talk at 7 pm by James Erskine on his company, Creation Theatre, and the current state of theatre and the arts in Oxford.
Tea/coffee 6.30 pm, talk 7 pm, AGM 8 pm
MEMBERS ONLY VISITS & WALKS
** tickets required, bookings for all events by Monday 12 December
Thursday 22 March, 2.30 pm: Visit to Jesus College
Tickets £7
Jesus College was the only college founded in the long reign of Elizabeth I and the Queen herself was
its co-founder in 1571. Associated in particular with two undergraduates, TE Lawrence and Harold
Wilson, Jesus has traditionally been known as the college for Welshmen. The visit will include the
three quadrangles hidden between Cornmarket and Turl Street as well as some of the more recent
buildings. The afternoon will end with tea in the college Hall.
Thursday 29 March, 2.30 pm: Visit to three Anglican churches in Cowley
Tickets £7
Gillian Argyle will lead a tour of three Anglican churches in Cowley: St Alban's in Charles Street –
with stations of the cross by Eric Gill and a door carved by John Brookes, the founder of Oxford
Brookes University; St John the Evangelist; and the adjoining St Stephen's theological college, the original home of the Cowley fathers. Tea will be served.
NB One of the chapels is only reached by several flights of stairs.
Saturday 14 April, 2-4 pm: Summertown walk
repeated Sunday 22 April, 2-4 pm and Thursday 26 April, 6-8 pm
Tickets: £4
Alastair Lack will lead a walk round the parish of Summertown, once a small hamlet on the road out of Oxford and the haunt of highwaymen. Taking in the oldest and little known existing buildings and some of the remaining large houses, he will tell the story of a neighbourhood that has developed from a small adjunct of Oxford to a place with its own lively sense of identity.
Compiled by Programme Group members:
Michael Daniell, Alan Hobbs,
Alastair Lack (Convenor), Donald Naybour & Tim Treacher |
