Tuesday, 30th May, 5:37 am
Oxfordshire
September 2019
Oxfordshire Branch: Visit to Broughton Castle
Oxfordshire Branch private tour of Broughton Castle. Broughton Castle is a moated and fortified manor house , the core of the house was built in 1306 and the gatehouse in the early fifteenth century, but most of what you see today dates from the 1550’s. It was a centre of opposition to Charles I and was besieged and damaged after the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. Broughton Castle is home to the 21st Lord and Lady Saye & Sele, whose…
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Oxfordshire Branch: Afternoon tea & talk by Katherine Harborne, ‘GM Crops and Lady Chatterley’
Talk by Katherine Harborne, “GM Crops and Lady Chatterley” Priory Room, Christchurch College. Afternoon tea.
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Oxfordshire Branch: Thanksgiving Lunch at Weston Manor, speaker Lord Wasserman
Thanksgiving Lunch at Weston Manor, speaker Lord Wasserman, former Rhodes Scholar. Lord Gordon Wasserman, born in Montreal, Canada, he was educated at McGill University and New College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. After a varied and distinguished career in the Home Office, including 12 years with responsibility for scientific and technological support to UK police forces, he spent 12 years in the USA advising police chiefs in New York, Philadelphia and other cities. From May 2010 to April 2012, he…
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