Winter 2008

 LIVING THROUGH A TIME OF CRISIS

17th Jan The “Fall” of the Roman Empire: St Augustine of Hippo, Gildas the Wise, and two invented “Crises”.
Dr Martin Henig, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

24th Jan Speaker and title tbc

31st Jan The Crisis of Faith in the Victorian Age
Rev Dr Peter Groves, Faculty of Theology, Oxford

7th Feb So, Goodbye Twentieth century ...A Childhood of Fear.
Wanda Barford, author of What is the Purpose of Your Visit? (Wanda Barford escaped Mussolini’s Italy and has reflected, in poetry, on her own experiences, and those of some of her Jewish relatives.)

14th Feb Rwanda ... being there
Diana Umuhoza, Church Mission Society

21st Feb Royalist capital and Commonwealth melting pot: Oxford, 1642-1660
Dr Vivienne Larminie, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

28th Feb Burma and East Timor (title tbc)
Dr Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford

6th March Starvation in Anglo-Saxon England
Dr Sally Crawford, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

13th March The contested history of the Jews in Iraq during the Twentieth century
Speaker: Ahmed Mehdi, St Antony's College, Oxford

All welcome. A retiring collection will be taken to defray expenses

12.30 pm St Giles’ Church, Woodstock Rd, Oxford

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