Jonathan Kingdon, artist, evolutionary biologist, and resident of Islip identifies a place, a time and a process for that first fateful rupture between apes and humans
Table bookings strongly advised. No charge to enter, and a free round of drinks for the winning team.
Christmas decoration-making for children, wreaths for adults – all free! Email info@bacbs.org to book.
Meet at Bernwood car park at 2 pm for a gentle ramble and chat with your neighbours.
Table bookings strongly advised. No charge to enter, and a free round of drinks for the winning team.
Sandra Ruge and Marie Lehri will tell us about a social enterprise based in Oxford that tackles food waste and food poverty.
Meet at The Abingdon Arms at 2 pm for a gentle ramble and chat with your neighbours.
Mary Stuck from Horton-cum-Studley will talk about the novel, its author, and its association with Beckley and Stow Wood.
Meet at The Abingdon Arms at 2 pm for a gentle ramble and chat with your neighbours.
Anna Beer on crime fiction (especially ‘cosy crime’) and why there are, and have been, so many murder mysteries set in Oxford - including her own.
Meet at the car park at the Old Road end of Shotover at 2 pm for a gentle ramble and chat with your neighbours.
By local tour guide Maurice East
Meet in the Bernwood car park at 2 pm for a gentle ramble and chat with your neighbours.
Andrew Myatt of Stanton St John will look at the forgotten stories of how Oxford was founded in about 700AD through some miracles, the turbulence of faith and politics in the Middle Ages, as well as some of the 'heroes of the faith’ right up to CS Lewis
Helen Weinstein will give an illustrated talk to tell the stories of those who lived & worked in the Beckley area from Victorian times onwards
Meet at the Stanton St John Village Hall car park for a gentle 2 hour walk and chat with your neighbours.
Chris Pugh will talk about how bell-ringing works, its history, and the current state of bell-ringing in the UK
Meet at The Abingdon Arms for a gentle 2 hour walk and chat with your neighbours.
Local author, Amanda Roberts, will describe how her love of history and literature combine to provide the inspiration for her novels
Aris Karastergiou is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a fellow at St Edmund Hall.
Circular walk from the church at Horton cum Studley
Introducing a feature documentary film, two years in the making, about protecting Gabon’s precious rainforest.
Circular walk from The Abingdon Arms via Noke and Elsfield
Hands-on to policy making
Circular walk from The Abingdon Arms to Stanton St John and back
A visual cornucopia of 75 images and 3 videos
Circular walk from The Abingdon Arms to Noke and back, drinks at the pub afterwards
Walk down to the Beckley Community Orchard, drinks at the pub afterwards
The history of the orchard, the variety of trees, and how people can get involved
Rome, America and the future of the West
Photographing one hundred strangers who live in Oxford
This talk will only be in the pub.
