Hi Paul, Kate Tiller sounds a fascinating person to be able to attend such a meeting - just such a shame I can't be there, Kind regards Lyn Rumble Rushworth, Victoria, Australia treehouse152@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of PaulGask@aol.com Sent: Sunday, 22 January 2012 1:30 AM To: OXFORDSHIRE@rootsweb.com Subject: [OXF] Oxfordshire FHS meeting - Monday 23 January 2012 All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 23 January 2012 at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall, exchange journals and the library. The subject of the talk is "Anatomy of a County - the Oxfordshire Historical Atlas Project". This will be presented by Kate Tiller. The presentation will be based on Oxfordshire's first historical atlas, which was published a little while ago by the Oxfordshire Record Society. This distils research on the archaeology, landscape, buildings and people of the county, and offers an overview of Oxfordshire across subjects and periods. Our speaker will illustrate from a variety of themes, which reflect and sometimes determined the history of local families. Our speaker Dr Kate Killer is Reader Emerita in English Local History, University of Oxford, a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in English Local History at the University of Leicester. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire. She was Director of Studies in Local History at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education 1979-2003, and introduced part-time University Diploma, Master’s and DPhil programmes in English Local History. She is a former editor of The Local Historian, and has written widely on local history. 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 For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html Any queries, please contact me. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society www.ofhs.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message