Thame Museum On Line Talk: Soldiers Saints & Sinners Oxfordshire Characters in the British Civil War
9th September 2021 7.30pm. £7.00 (Museum Members £5) – A talk by Stephen Barker. Click here to book or book tickets by telephone 01844 212801. Oxfordshire played a significant part in the First Civil War – Oxford became the Royalist capital in late 1642 and the county was on the frontline with parliamentary Buckinghamshire. This ... Read moreGreat Kimble Church – Ship Money Documents and Memorial on display 11th September
The church will be open and the document recording the refusal of John Hampden and his tenants to pay the tax and the restored memorial sign will on display along with an exhibition about John Hampden and the church and how the sign was restored. Copies of the document will be on sale along with ... Read moreResurgam: The Battle of Brentford November 1642 – memorialising the dead
The exhumation and reinterring of bodies buried in the graveyard of St Lawrence’s Brentford began on the 28th June. A number of the combatants from both sides were laid to rest in this graveyard. The developers, Ballymore, have indicated that they would work with interested parties to erect a monument commemorating the fallen. The Society ... Read moreVisit to Milton’s Cottage and Jordans’s Quaker Meeting House – 10th October
The trustees are pleased to announce a visit by the Society to the historic Milton’s Cottage at Chalfont St Giles and the nearby Jordans Quaker Meeting House, on Sunday 10th October 2021. If you wish to join us let me know by email as soon as possible sam.hearn@btinternet.com. The spaces on the group visit to ... Read moreA virtual talk by Lynette Nusbacher – 7th October. John Hampden: Oliver Cromwell: The legal, managerial and analytical mind in crisis.
Military historian Lynette Nusbacher has accepted an invitation from the Society to deliver a Zoom talk for us at 7.00 pm on Thursday 7th October. The talk will be made available free of charge to members of the Society, and the Cromwell Association and the Battlefields Trust. To obtain the Zoom link please contact thetreasurer@johnhampden.org ... Read more
