Oxford Women's Luncheon Club
Oxford Women's Luncheon Club

Past Speakers 

Jeremy Mainwaring-Burton 'The Queen Mother's Lifelong Love of Jewellery' March 2025

 

Charlotte Eagar 'The Trojan Women Project, a combined supprt, communications and drama project for refugees and asylum seekers' February 2025

 

Debbie Dance ' Oxford and its development: taking the positive view' November 2024

 

Paul Whitton 'Mary de Bohun (1368 - 1394), The Royal Lady of Hinton' October 2024

 

Sian Hansen 'The State of Philanthropy in the UK' June 2024

 

Marjorie Glasgow BEM, His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire ' The History and Role of HM Lord-Lieutenants' May 2024

 

Zandra Houston 'Wild West Wales - a taster of the history and geography of the beautiful county of Pembrokeshire' March 2024

 

Dr Susan Manley ' Letters in Biochemistry' February 2024 

 

Gareth Morris ‘And the band played on. The story of RMS Titanic.’ November 2023

 

Susan Ronald ‘THE AMBASSADOR- Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940’ October 2023

 

Nikita Gill 'Foremothers and the Value of Reclaiming Myth for Women'. June 2023

 

Fiona Gordon 'Whips, Whipettes, Grids, Lists – how does the Chief Whip really win difficult votes?’ May 2023

 

Rick Fink Life in service as a Butler in some of the great houses and families in England. March 2023

 

Martin Goodman 'Herod the Great: myth and reality'. February 2023

 

Rebecca Abrams 'Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England' November 2022

 

Jane Dickinson- 'Women of Oxford' October 2022

 

Robin Kermode- 'Speak so your audience will listen’ June 2022

 

James Greig - ' Will of Naunakhte (1145 BC) - one of the oldest surviving wills in the World' May 2022

 

Hazel Anderson 'Magna Carta and me - an Archivist travels' March 2022

 

David Clark 'Sir Isaac Newton- genius and tyrant' February 2022

 

Gillian Walnes Perry 'The Social History of English Afternoon Tea' November 2021

 

Margarita and Steve Morris write crime fiction and psychological thrillers as a partnership under the pseudonym MS Morris. October 2021

 

Malcolm Bacchus ' The Oxford Union- it's history, buildings and workings'. June 2021

 

Gillian Walnes Perry 'The life and Surprising Legacy of Anne Frank' May 2021

 

Richard Venables 'The historic and current role of the High Sheriff' March 2021

 

Lynne Ward 'Berthe Morisot- a painter and a member of the circle of painters who became known as the Impressionists'. February 2021

 

Timothy Walker  'The Healing Power of Plants' November 2020

 

Professor Emma Smith ' Shakespeare in 2020 - what makes his works so perennial'  October 2020

 

Professor Barnaby Lenon CBE, MA (Oxon), FRGS 'Winston Churchill- the greatest Prime Minister of the 20th Century' March 2020

 

Lester Maddrell 'Rubber Ducks and Frozen Prawns' February 2020

 

Lady Young 'From Osijek to Oxford - the life and works of the sculptor, Oscar Nemon' November 2019

 

Richard Kennell 'Youth Led Social Impact Programmes Harnessing Untapped Potential' October 2019

 

Jayne Woodley 'A twist of fate, uncovering disadvantage and social inequalities across Oxfordshire' June 2019

 

Helen Yemm - Gardening Correspondent for the Telegraph 'A Gardener's Life' May 2019

 

Angela Huxter 'Leaving Boars Hill after fifty or more years' March 2019

 

Paul Simons 'Oxfordshire's Wonderful Weather' February 2019

 

Anne Pappenheim JP 'Let off with a Community Sentence' vs 'Jailed for a Minor Crime' November 2018

 

Dr Jane Quinlan FRCA.,FFP MRCA 'The Rise and Fall of Opiods' October 2018

 

Alexandra Eyston 'Custodian of Hendred House, East Hendred, Oxfordshire' June 2018

 

Major General (retd) Peter G Williams, CMG, OBE 'My Life as a Cold War Spy'   May 2018

 

Penelope Lenon 'A Word of Advice: 20 years of trying to solve other people's problems at Citizen's Advice' March 2018   

 

John Vigar 'The Chronolgy of battlements and merlons- a traditional and quirky feature of buildings' February 2018