Featured Events in Oxford in September 2025 (November Updated)

Opening Hours Our searchroom is open to the public Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 09:30-16:30 and selected Saturdays. We are closed on Mondays, Fridays and Bank Holiday weekends. Booking We recommend advanced booking of a Searchroom session for consultation of all History Centre collections, including access to open shelf volumes and public computers / microfilm readers and printers. There are two bookable sessions per day, 09:30-13:00 and 13:00-16:30. Bookings can be placed up to three hours in advance of a session, if available. You are welcome to arrive anytime between the start and end of your booked session. Each person who is visiting should book a seat. There are no limitations on how many sessions you can book. If you are unsure what type of seat you will need, please contact us at oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk. Archives Card Visitors consulting original documents from Archives collections will be required to present their Archives Card. This has replaced the CARN ticket, which we are no longer accepting. No card is required for accessing Local Studies material (including newspaper /microfilms), open access material or public computers, but we encourage all visitors to apply for an Archives Card Planning your visit To help you plan your visit you can check our catalogues online through Heritage Search or Discovery . A guide to our online catalogues can be found here Oxfordshire Health Archives catalogues are not currently available online. These catalogues are in hard copy (volume) format and can be consulted in the Searchroom. Photographic collections: Our photographic collections are catalogued online at Picture Oxon . Thousands of photographs are available to view online, but not all are currently digitised. If you wish to consult any undigitised images , please contact us a week in advance of your visit at oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk. Accessing documents: All documents from our strongrooms (archives, library materials and microfilms / fiches) must be ordered in the Searchroom, on arrival or during your visit. We are unable to accommodate advance requests. More information about visiting Oxfordshire History Centre Information Source: Oxfordshire History Centre | eventbrite

SATURDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2025 | BEECFROFT HALL - OXFORD ACADEMY - OXFORDBritish Kingdom Pro-Wrestling Live! at the Beecroft Hall, Oxford Academy in Oxford, England. Live Pro-Wrestling Mega Show comes to Oxford for an all action packed evening of family entertainment, featuring Superstars from all over the World. Location: Beecroft Hall, The Oxford Academy, Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 6JZ Date: Saturday 6th September 2025 Event Times: Doors Open | 5:30pm Event Starts | 6:00pm Event Tickets: £17.50 | Gold Front Row £15.00 | Silver Second Row £12.50 | Adults General Admission £10.00 | Kids General Admission £40.00 | Family of 4 (2 x Adults | 2 x Kids) £55.00 | Family of 6 (2 x Adults | 4 x Kids) £60.00 | Front Row Family of 4 (2 x Adults | 2 x Kids) £50.00 | Second Row Family of 4 (2 x Adults | 2 x Kids) Birthday Party Package Deals £100.00 | Kids Party of 10 (Includes 2 x Adults) £150.00 | Kids Party of 15 (Includes 2 x Adults) *Free Parking at the Venue Merchandise and In Ring Photos Available to purchase Information Source: British Kingdom Pro-Wrestling | eventbrite

5k Fun Run x Oktoberfest x Homegrown | Part of the 2025 Michigan Brewery Running Series™ Join us for a fun-filled day of running, beer, and good vibes at Homegrown. Lace up your running shoes - we've mapped out a 5k-ish course that starts and ends at this awesome taproom in Oxford. We'll start together at 11 AM. Run, walk or jog before celebrating with a locally-made craft beverage at the finish line. Whether you're a seasoned runner or just looking for a fun way to stay active, this event is fun for all. The 5k course will take you through scenic routes, allowing you to enjoy the beautiful surroundings while getting your heart pumping. After crossing the finish line, reward yourself with a well-deserved pint of craft beer from Homegrown. Nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment and the taste of a refreshing brew! So gather your friends and come join us at Homegrown on September 7. It's going to be a day filled with beer run fun. See you there! This event is part of our 2025 Michigan Brewery Running Series Season All participants receive: (1) craft brew at the finish line from HomegrownChoice of a collector’s pint glass or seasonal swag item from the Brewery Running SeriesA chance to win sweet prizes, like Brewery Running Series merchandise or beer to take homeAccess to event festivities like live music, games and goodies with our partners and sponsorsAnd more!Our mission is to be active, have fun and give back. A portion of all proceeds from our events supports local nonprofits - over $500k raised to date! This event will add to that tally by donating 10% to local organizations like: Spirit of CASA Scholarship. So not only do you get to enjoy some healthy activity and great, local beer - you are helping us support local organizations that do important work in our community. Registration is limited to the size of the taproom and many of our events sell out. Sign up today! Important details: This is an untimed, fun-run. All levels of walkers, runners and joggers are welcome.This is an open course, meaning roads will NOT be closed. You are responsible for obeying all traffic laws and regulations.We create each route to start and end at the brewery and to show off the surrounding neighborhood. The course will be marked with arrows to help you know where to go.You must bring a valid ID or driver's license. You do not need to be 21 to enjoy the event, but you must be 21 to enjoy the beer. Please drink responsibly. Registered, underage participants will receive a token for a FREE non-alcoholic beverage.Our events are rain or shine! If conditions become unsafe to run, we will still hang out and drink beer.There will not be a bag check; please plan accordingly and dress appropriately for the weather.Dogs and strollers are welcome on the course, with care and caution. Please remember - you are running at your own risk on city sidewalks / streets / trails, which might not be suitable for your 4-legged and /or pint size running buddies. You will also want to check with the brewery to make sure you can abide by their dog / underage policies. Please make the best decision possible for your crew.Please drink responsibly. We always encourage carpooling and safe, designated drivers.Keep an eye on your inbox - we will send you all final event details via email the week of this event and share anything else you might need to know to participate. Questions? Check out our FAQ | Contact us at catherine@breweryrunningseries.com Cheers to beers! We’ll see you at Homegrown! Information Source: Michigan Brewery Running Series® | eventbrite

Opening Hours Our searchroom is open to the public Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 09:30-16:30 and selected Saturdays. We are closed on Mondays, Fridays and Bank Holiday weekends. Booking We recommend advanced booking of a Searchroom session for consultation of all History Centre collections, including access to open shelf volumes and public computers / microfilm readers and printers. There are two bookable sessions per day, 09:30-13:00 and 13:00-16:30. Bookings can be placed up to three hours in advance of a session, if available. You are welcome to arrive anytime between the start and end of your booked session. Each person who is visiting should book a seat. There are no limitations on how many sessions you can book. If you are unsure what type of seat you will need, please contact us at oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk. Archives Card Visitors consulting original documents from Archives collections will be required to present their Archives Card. This has replaced the CARN ticket, which we are no longer accepting. No card is required for accessing Local Studies material (including newspaper /microfilms), open access material or public computers, but we encourage all visitors to apply for an Archives Card Planning your visit To help you plan your visit you can check our catalogues online through Heritage Search or Discovery . A guide to our online catalogues can be found here Oxfordshire Health Archives catalogues are not currently available online. These catalogues are in hard copy (volume) format and can be consulted in the Searchroom. Photographic collections: Our photographic collections are catalogued online at Picture Oxon . Thousands of photographs are available to view online, but not all are currently digitised. If you wish to consult any undigitised images , please contact us a week in advance of your visit at oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk. Accessing documents: All documents from our strongrooms (archives, library materials and microfilms / fiches) must be ordered in the Searchroom, on arrival or during your visit. We are unable to accommodate advance requests. More information about visiting Oxfordshire History Centre Information Source: Oxfordshire History Centre | eventbrite

Indignity 'There must be hope somewhere, between memory and imagination. Perhaps it takes the form of faith in the redeeming power of art.' When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, as we are transported to the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. While investigating the truth about her family, Ypi grapples with uncertainty. Who is the real Leman Ypi? What made her move to Tirana as a young woman and marry a socialist who sympathized with the Popular Front while his father led a collaborationist government? And why was she smiling in the winter of 1941? By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity explores what it means to survive in an age of extremes. It reveals the fragility of truth, both personal and political, and the cost of decisions made against the tide of history. Through secret police reports of communist spies, court depositions, and Ypi's memories of her grandmother, we move between present and past, archive and imagination, fact and fiction. Ultimately, she asks, what do we really know about the people closest to us? And with what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations? Lea Ypi Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), The Architectonic of Reason, and Free: Coming of Age at the End of History which has been translated into thirty-five languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She is a fellow of the British Academy, of Academia Europea and of the Albanian Academy of Sciences. Information Source: Blackwell's, Broad Street Oxford | eventbrite

We're pleased to host this very special event in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries “The supreme novelist of his generation” Sunday Times What We Can Know 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining island archipelagos, pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost. Ian McEwan Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Richard Ovenden Richard Ovenden is the Bodley’s Librarian and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries. He also serves as Head of Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) at Oxford. All tickets include a copy of the book. Concession tickets are available with a valid student card. Information Source: Blackwell's, Broad Street Oxford | eventbrite

Hi! We are George, May, Lizzie and Claire and collectively, we are Meadowsuite! We write and perform folk songs, rooted in our collective landscape, history and mythology, but blossoming in new and interesting directions. We invite you to come and celebrate the release of our debut album in St Mary's Church Hall, Iffley. We'll play the album in its entirety, along with a sprinkling of other songs, old and new. You can stream the album in advance here: https://meadowsuite.bandcamp.com/album/meadowsuite Tickets £9 in advance, or £12 on the door We will have some drinks and snacks available on donation, or BYOB We're looking forward to a magical evening! Information Source: Meadowsuite | eventbrite

Come and join me to celebrate the launch of my seventh novel - The Oxford Mystery - at the Cotswold Lodge Hotel, Banbury Road. The couples ticket includes one copy of the book, two free drinks and a selection of savoury and sweet canapes. Additonal drinks can be purchased in the bar. There is parking at the hotel and on the road outside, together with excellent bus routes along Banbury Road. I look forward to celebrating this special evening with you. Information Source: Colin Wade - Author | eventbrite

Come and join me to celebrate the launch of my seventh novel - The Oxford Mystery - at the Cotswold Lodge Hotel, Banbury Road. Your ticket includes a copy of the book, one free drink and a variety of savoury and sweet canapes. Additional drinks can be purchased at the bar. There is parking at the hotel and on the road outside, as well as excellent bus routes along the Banbury Road. I look forward to sharing this special evening with you. Information Source: Colin Wade - Author | eventbrite