Bloxham Village History Club

Wednesday 16 November, 7.30pm
Jubilee Park Hall, Barley Close, Bloxham

Our short AGM (approx 20 mins) will be followed by a talk:

Deborah Hayter: “Common Right to Private Property:
how enclosure shaped Oxfordshire’s landscape”

Waves of land enclosure – often of previous common land – have shaped our landscape from the medieval period onwards. Sometimes legal, sometimes not, sometimes informal, enclosure has had massive economic and social impacts.

An eighteenth century anonymous poem pithily expresses one perspective:
“The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose
Who steals the common from the goose.”

Drinks/nibbles will be provided (from 7.15pm), as part of our ongoing celebration of being back together in person!

Admission: free for members (£13 annual sub); £3.00 for visitors on the door.

Contact Ian Myson (ian mvson@hotmail.com: 01295 720951) for further information, including any queries about becoming a member of the History Club.

All very welcome.