Tackley Local History Group
Talk:
Monday, in
Tackley Village Memorial Hall. Join us for tea and coffee at
7:15 pm before the talk starts at 7:30 pm. Annual membership is
£12, and non-members are welcome for £5.
For more than 50 years, members of Tackley Local History Group have been
exploring the history of this Oxfordshire village and the people who lived
and worked in and around it from 12000 BC to the 20th century.
We have published several books, and our
exhibition Tackley Through Time
can be seen in St Nicholas’ Church. We have carried out excavations at
the church and at Gibraltar
Point, undertaken archaeological investigations, and built up a
collection of archives which is kept in the village
hall. We run several additional archaeological and historical
projects, and organise an annual series of talks
from September to April.
New members are always welcome, whether from Tackley or further afield. The
subscription is £12 per year. Please contact the secretary Sue Ashton at
10 St Nicholas Road, on 01869 331325,
or at tackleyhistory@gmail.com. There are more than 500 members in our
Facebook
group.
Programme
- 22 September 2025 – Abigail Lloyd: Archaeology Without Digging: Using Place Names as Clues
- 27 October 2025 – Jonathan Healey: 1596 and All That: The Oxfordshire Rising in Its Context
- 24 November 2025 – Robin Gibbons: Tackley’s Parson, Priests and Pastors: Some Colourful Characters Through the Centuries
- 26 January 2026 – Stephen Barker: Women in the First World War
- 23 February 2026 – Collections and Recollections (details to follow)
- 23 March 2026 – Deborah Hayter: The Poor Law in the 18th Century: Crisis in the Parishes
- 27 April 2026 – Anni Byard: Tackley: The Dig at Gibraltar Point
We meet in Tackley Village Memorial Hall. Join us for tea and coffee at
7:15 pm before the talk starts at 7:30 pm. Annual membership is
£12, and non-members are welcome for £5.