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Lockdown Lectures: Captain Ralph Kite – “A Very Parfit Gentil Knight” First Shown Live: Tuesday 25 May 2021 (Archived Video and Q&A available now) The first of our Lockdown Lectures covering the Great War, A Very Parfit Gentil Knight explores a story that would be tragically familiar to many families during the era. Captain Ralph Kite died of wounds inflicted during the attack on Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of Ancre on the 13…

Lockdown Lectures: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming First Broadcast 26 April 2021 – Archived Lecture Now Available Uncover The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, best known as the author of the James Bond  novels, with Dr. Christopher Moran. Christopher Moran is a specialist in the work of British and American secret services and has worked as historical consultant to the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. and is co-editor of the Journal of Intelligence…

Lockdown Lectures: The 52nd Foot at Waterloo Archived Lecture Available Now (First Broadcast 1st March 2021) Following the popularity of our first Lockdown Lecture, The Pegasus Bridge Story, our next online talk sees historian Gareth Glover delve into the history of The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry to address the  debate surrounding The 52nd Foot at Waterloo and the part they really played in the famous battle. As the Battle of Waterloo…

Oxford’s First World War story involves people from all over the world. There are those from Oxford who left, and travelled to other countries; those who stayed, and experienced Oxford’s increasing international connections during the conflict; and those who arrived in Oxford from other places because of the war. All of them experienced the war in different ways, and 12 of them are commemorated in the mini-exhibition Oxford, the War…

Academic, Community, Service Charities and Museums Collaborations In the centenary year of the ending of the First World War we felt that it would be a powerful initiative to involve a major school in Oxford in  something which could demonstrate how the war affected families in the County. Knowing how well Magdalen College School (MCS) are able to produce stage productions we approached them with the idea of doing something to enable…

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