Colleagues The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 26 January 2009. It will be held at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15 pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall. The subject of the talk at 8.00pm is "The Wolvercote Paper Mill", which will be presented by Dr Martin Maw. Martin has told me that the talk itself includes some basic history on Oxford University Press [OUP], but concentrates on the growth and development of the paper mill. The latter was not only vital to the Press itself, but was also the centre of the community at Wolvercote for more than 200 years. The presentation will include images from Victorian lantern slides of the mill and the mill houses, as well as more modern shots of the mill and its staff at work. Martin says that he hopes that the talk will give audience members a chance not only to understand paper making, but also to spot some familiar faces from friends or family. Martin will welcome questions and personal reminiscences from anyone whose memories are stirred by the evening, and hopes that we can all have not just a talk, but a conversation. Our speaker Dr Martin Maw has been archivist for OUP for over ten years, having previously worked at the Bodleian and in local government archives. He gave us a tremendously interesting presentation about OUP in Spring 2007 - and effectively this is the second-half of that evening ! Martin has also asked me to mention that he is currently involved in helping with a new four-volume history of OUP from the fifteenth century to the present day, which includes oral history. He is keen that anyone who has worked at OUP or at the Wolvercote Paper Mill and would like to contribute to the project should get in touch with him. Anyone who wants to contribute but is unable to make the meeting should contact me and I'll pass on Martin's details. All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html) Any queries, please contact me off-list. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Web : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)