Tim Healey of the Oxford Waits, a band of historical musicians, entertained members of the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group on 7th December in the Kings Arms Barn. With vivid period images and musical accompaniment on the shawm – a kind of recorder – we were immersed in the world of Christmas in the 17th […]

    Members of the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group visited the River and Rowing Museum on 16th November at the invitation of its senior staff. The Museum, with its sporting and environmental themes and of course the popular Wind in the Willows Gallery, is a well-visited attraction in the town. The Group’s visit focused on

This month’s talk to the Henley Archaeological and Historical Group was given on 2nd November by Prof. Michael Fulford of Reading University, summarising the excavations of the Roman bathhouse in Calleva, present-day Silchester, between 2018 and 2021. This year is likely to be the last season of digging unless more funding becomes available. These excavations

William Anker Simmons At the Centre of the World: Henley & the Olympic Games 1908 The first talk to the Group held live since the pandemic was given at the Kings Arms Barn on 12th  October by Dr Michael Redley on Henley and the 1908 Olympic Games. The Henley Royal Regatta, first held in 1839,

On the highest part of High Wood, but hidden in the trees, is an area of uneven ground that has mystified local people for many years. It was probably dug by antiquarians in the 19th Century who left nothing but possible spoil heaps and later plundered by treasure hunters with metal detectors in the 20th century.

Now available! Many of you will know Hilary Fisher, local historian, retired librarian and long-standing member of HAHG, who has served on our committee and taken part in many of the group’s projects. Over the past 40 years, she has also made a study of how Henley grew and expanded southwards in the 19th century

Viv Greenwood has done us proud, once again, when her latest information board, this time on the Chantry House, was unveiled on Wednesday, 16th June. The incentive for a replacement board came from the recent dendro dating of its timbers to 1461 by Dr. Dan Miles. This now gives us firm confirmation that it was

Ruth Gibson, our speaker, with Cllr Kellie Hinton who granted funds for dendrochronological dating of the Chantry House. The Group greatly enjoyed a talk given on 4th May by HA&HG committee member Ruth Gibson on the project of dating Henley’s medieval buildings using tree rings. Tree-ring dating involves matching a sequence of ring widths of