Here is where you can keep up to date on all the latest news from OFHS. We display the most recent news items in this top category. If you want to look through the news by subject type, browse the list of news categories, which include older news items. (Bear in mind that some of the links to external websites may no longer work.)
29 September 2023
New surnames added to OXSIL in September 2023
29 September 2023
Join now and get 15 months for the price of 12
29 September 2023
On 22 October 2023 Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO) in Woodstock will unveil a new display to celebrate some of the county’s most remarkable heroes
16 August 2023
New additions to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List for July 2023
04 August 2023
Victoria County History - Newsletter for Oxfordshire Summer 2023
01 August 2023
80 New Wills added to library July 2023
11 July 2023
New additions to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List in June 2023
22 May 2023
More new names and information added to Wills Library.
19 May 2023
A free mapping platform providing base layers of historic Ordnance Survey mapping now available at Heritage Search
05 May 2023
Names added to the Oxfordshire Surnames Interest List in April are listed here.
03 May 2023
New surname reports now available
14 April 2023
New surname sheets giving details of the surname's history and Oxfordshire occurrence are becoming available.
14 April 2023
New additions to OXSIL surname interest list March 2023
20 March 2023
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in February 2023. If any of them are ...
04 March 2023
Victoria County History - talk about Chipping Norton Monday 17th April 7pm.
01 March 2023
Society's Annual General Meeting to take place on Monday 26th June 2023
25 February 2023
Digital collections day at Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum 1st April 2023.
23 February 2023
Advisor/help session opens at Wychwood Library
21 February 2023
New updates to Oxfordshire Surname Interest List January 2023
19 January 2023
Additions to the Wills library from Jan 2023
14 January 2023
‘From Country House Catholicism to City Church: the Registers of the Oxford Catholic Mission 1700-1875‘ has just been published by the Oxfordshire Record Society
07 December 2022
Additions to OXSIL November 2022
07 December 2022
Closures for Oxfordshire History Centre December 2022 to February 2023
01 December 2022
Read a review of our 2022 book Exploring Oxfordshire Surnames: People, Places and Lives
01 December 2022
The December 2022 Oxfordshire Family Historian is now available to all OFHS members in the Members' Area.
10 November 2022
The following surnames were added to the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List – www.oxsil.org.uk – in October 2022. If any of them ...
05 November 2022
New advisor sessions for Carterton, 10:00am to 1:00pm first and third Tuesdays.
19 October 2022
History Centre launches new Heritage Search facility
10 October 2022
New additions to OXSIL September 2022
04 October 2022
Hugh Kearsey prize for 2023 - entries now open. £100 prize for winner.
