Mark Page

Historian working for @VCHOxfordshire

Reviews Editor for @SouthHistSoc

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

New *draft* text from @VCHOxfordshire - an account of Kiddington with Asterleigh parish in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, one of the places destined for our next volume:https://t.co/KkjoYxY34p. Assarting, deserted medieval settlements, Catholic recusancy, Capability Brown, and more..

[Southern History Society @SouthHistSoc]

We are pleased to announce that the latest volume of Southern History is now available! Read the fascinating research on the history of #SouthernEngland and support our charity 🔗 https://t.co/Jv6iapjJpK

[Mark Page @markpage965]

@zarahandley @SallyBadham The Burghforde spelling appears in an assize roll of 1285.

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Fantastic launch of our Chipping Norton volume at Hook Norton Brewery this evening, complete with VCH-themed beer! Thanks to the wonderful Hook Norton brewery people, and to everyone for coming along and buying books! Available at 25% discount at https://t.co/CgOMKGL234 until Jan

[Mark Page @markpage965]

@BerksArchives It looks like Huntercombe golf club in Nuffield parish (Oxfordshire). I wrote about it in VCH Oxfordshire volume 18.

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

Many congratulations to @VCHOxfordshire, this is a fantastic volume & we’re very much looking forward to the launch in October!

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Exciting to see that our forthcoming Chipping Norton volume is now on the @boydellbrewer website! 😀 And even more exciting to see that from July you can pre-order it online! 😀😀

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

/2 ...away from the medieval church and core. A new church was built by James Langston (lord of Churchill and neighbouring Sarsden) 1825-6, its tower a reduced copy of that of Magdalen College Oxford. This and much more at https://t.co/dtTosODoJV

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

New online *draft* text - Churchill (by @markpage965), one of the parishes to be included in @VCHOxfordshire XXII, covering a swathe of west Oxon from Chastleton to Kiddington. The village's shape was altered by a serious fire in 1684 (starting in a bakery), shifting its focus...

[Mark Page @markpage965]

@OxHist MS Oxf Dioc b 70 is a brilliant source for writing VCH parish histories but it is very heavy and awkward getting it on and off the desk!

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

A thrilling end to the week! - first glimpse of page proofs for our forthcoming #ChippingNorton area volume, to be published by @boydellbrewer this autumn.😀 (There go the next six weeks🤪- but in a good way!) Chipping Ntn, Hook Ntn, Over Ntn, Rollrights, Salford, Swerford...

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Members of the @VCHOxfordshire team in action at our annual Xmas lecture and reception @StJohnsOx, showcasing current W Oxon work for Vol.22 - DMVs, assarting, village fires, village scandals, and more. Lovely to see nearly 100 of our supporters there!

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

Brand new *DRAFT* text from @VCHOxfordshire and @StephenMileson on the parish of #Enstone which will form part of their 22nd volume.

We make these texts available for everyone to use, correct, and comment upon in advance of publication. Take a look!

https://t.co/DLxyKApH9P

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Our latest online *draft text* is a history of Enstone parish in West Oxon - including Broadstone, Chalford, Lidstone, Cleveley, Gagingwell, Radford, and part of Ditchley. Everything from DMVs to Formula One! See that and other drafts at https://t.co/KkjoYxY34p

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Our latest online draft covers Cornwell in W Oxon - the first for our penultimate (!!) volume, to cover 10 parishes from Chastleton to Enstone and Kiddington: https://t.co/KkjoYxY34p. Sarsden to follow very soon - feedback welcome.

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

New *DRAFT* text from @VCHOxfordshire towards their next but one volume, vol. 22. This volume is focused on #Chadlington, and will be the penultimate one of the Oxfordshire set.

The first parish text available is #Cornwell. read more here:

https://t.co/DLxyKApH9P

[Ann Gate @ceadela]

Perfect English evening in West Oxon, celebrating beginning of VCH volume devoted to our corner of Oxfordshire
Highlight was meeting one of my fave Oxford Twitterati folk @william_whyte

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

More photos of a lovely evening at Sarsden Glebe, launching our new project on the Chadlington area of West Oxon. Warm thanks to our kind hosts, and to everyone for coming - great to see such enthusiasm! The stunning house is by GS Repton (1818).

[VCH Oxfordshire @VCHOxfordshire]

Warm thanks to the hundred or so people who turned out to hear the @VCHOxfordshire team talk about our #ChippingNorton work yesterday evening, in the splendid surroundings of Chippy town hall - and thanks too to those who helped to organise and publicise it.

[Mark Page @markpage965]

@NicolaL48345917 @SallyBadham In 1365 Chalgrove was given land to maintain a cresset full of pitch for lighting 4 lamps in memory of John Pyron: VCH Oxon 18 p 151.