Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)

An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...

The Goring Gap Boathouse, which has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to the boatbuilder Simon Saunders, has just been Grade II listed: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...

An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...

More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...

Faringdon’s 1935 Folly Tower is proposed for extensive restoration work by the trust that owns it. The brick tower was built as a birthday present and originally contained a grand piano allowing the owner to “play among the treetops”. It has 154 steps to the top.

Today’s “Oxford Sausage” revisits Chiang Yee, who has an Oxfordshire blue plaque in Southmoor Road, Oxford: theoxfordsausage.com/chiang-yees-...

An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...

An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...

Mark Davies will be leading a walk in Oxford City Centre entitled “Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk” on Sunday 29 June and Sunday 13 July 2025 as part of the Oxfordshire Festival of the Arts. Buy your tickets here: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/blue-...

On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury

Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

More on Olive Gibbs and her Oxfordshire Blue Plaque here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gibb...

You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...

This Historic England blog on “Groundbreaking English Women of Science” includes two women who have been awarded Oxfordshire Blue Plaques on houses in Oxford city (Dorothy Hodgkin and Joan Clarke): heritagecalling.com/2025/01/16/g...

An exhibition on “Ronnie Barker: Oxford’s Comedy Legend” opens at the Museum of Oxford in the Town Hall today (11 Jan 2025) and runs to 19 April: museumofoxford.org/whats-on/spe...

Did you know that the film Star Heather Angel was the daughter of the Oxford chemist Andrea Angel who has a blue plaque at 15 Banbury Road? More about Heather here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather...

The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight