| The History of Old Windsor |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| The History of Eton before the College |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Medieval New Windsor 1110-1548 |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Windsor’s medieval hospital of St Peter |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Windsor Castle 1100-1700 |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| The great water conduit of Windsor Castle, a wonder of sixteenth century engineering |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Life, work and death in a medieval town: Windsor in the Middle Ages |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| The scandal of the Windsor martyrs: protestants heretics of the Reformation? |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| The oldest profession in an old town: the long history of immorality in Windsor |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Windsor’s medieval town guild of the Holy Trinity |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| The life and times of Robert Tebbott: a nineteenth-century rags to riches builder, and friend of kings |
David Lewis |
dglx10@hotmail.com |
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| Berkshire in 16th and 17th centuries, especially political and religious history. |
Manfred Brod |
manfred@jessman.net |
01865 391507 |
| Abingdon and Reading history. |
Manfred Brod |
manfred@jessman.net |
01865 391507 |
| Dr Pordage of Bradfield and his mystical society; |
Manfred Brod |
manfred@jessman.net |
01865 391507 |
| Lord Craven of Hamstead Marshall and his troubles with the Commonwealth; |
Manfred Brod |
manfred@jessman.net |
01865 391507 |
| Henry Marten the regicide. |
Manfred Brod |
manfred@jessman.net |
01865 391507 |
| St. George’s Chapel |
Leslie Grout |
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01753 851947 |
| Burial Grounds of London |
Leslie Grout |
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01753 851947 |
| Three Berkshire Brothers Go to War, |
Stan Cornford |
meteorology@ntlworld.com |
01344 422992 |
| Henry the Carter, |
Stan Cornford |
meteorology@ntlworld.com |
01344 422992 |
| A Walk Around St George’s Chapel,Windsor Castle |
Stan Cornford |
meteorology@ntlworld.com |
01344 422992 |
| A History of Wargrave, |
Peter Delaney |
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0118 9403121 |
| Madame Tussaud is Buried in Wargrave? – traps for the unwary!, |
Peter Delaney |
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0118 9403121 |
| Royal Blue – a history of the express coach operator |
Peter Delaney |
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0118 9403121 |
| The aviation heritage of Berkshire and why there is an aviation museum in the county |
Ken and Jean Fostekew |
The Museum of Berkshire Aviation |
0118 934 0712 or 0118 944 8089 |
| The Thames from Oxford to Windsor: shaping history through the centuries. |
Peter Halman |
prh@vinery.co.uk |
0118 940 4500 |
| A stroll in the park: the story of England’s royal, private and public parks. |
Peter Halman |
prh@vinery.co.uk |
0118 940 4500 |
| English style bells & bell ringing (historical development) |
John Harrison, |
john@jaharrison.me.uk |
0118 978 5520 |
| Living Heritage (history of ringing in Wokingham) |
John Harrison, |
john@jaharrison.me.uk |
0118 978 5520 |
| Brickwork (and how to read history in it) |
John Harrison, |
john@jaharrison.me.uk |
0118 978 5520 |
| Settle-Carlisle Railway (history and evolution) |
John Harrison, |
john@jaharrison.me.uk |
0118 978 5520 |
| Vanished Windsor – a celebration of the lost buildings and views of Windsor over the last 600 years |
Elias Kupfermann |
e.kupfermann@btinternet.com |
01753 536143 |
| Upton Park, Slough – the exploration and restoration of a Victorian landscape; |
Elias Kupfermann |
e.kupfermann@btinternet.com |
01753 536143 |
| Archaeology and History of Taplow Court |
Elias Kupfermann |
e.kupfermann@btinternet.com |
01753 536143 |
| Windsor Castle During the English Civil War |
Elias Kupfermann |
e.kupfermann@btinternet.com |
1754 536143 |
| Exploration of a Victorian Landscape – the history and restoration of Herschel Park, Slough |
Elias Kupfermann |
e.kupfermann@btinternet.com |
1755 536143 |
| The River Thames, from Cotswolds to the Sea; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| The River Thames, from Henley to Windsor; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Victorian Millionaires and their RiversideÃÂ Mansions; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| The Kennet and Avon Canal – the Water Road to Bath; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Slow Boat to Manchester: Voyage through the Canals of England; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Mother Flew Spitfires: the Amazing Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| The History of White Waltham Airfield; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Flying High: a Pilot’s Eye View (includes aerial photographs, local,UK, Europe and further afield); |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| God Save the King! – Royal Connections of Maidenhead and District; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| The History of Ray Lodge; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Maidenhead and the Movies, including:Hammer Horror,’Carry On Nurse’andÃÂ Gerry Mr.Thunderbirds Anderson; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Are you Married? Or Do You Live in Maidenhead? – Centuries of GossipÃÂ and Scandal; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Doctor at the Dean: the Life and Times of a 1920s Village Doctor; |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| The History of Maidenhead’s Hospitals. |
Maidenhead Heritage Centre |
info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk |
01628 780555 |
| Local history of Calcot, Tilehurst, Theale etc. and History of Huntley and Palmers and other local institutions |
Pax Payton-Smart |
pax1927@waitrose.com |
01894 24133 |
| The history of NewburyPrehistory of the Newbury area |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| The Seven Barrows at LambournHillforts of the Newbury area |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| The Newbury area in the Roman period |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| West Berkshire in the Anglo-Saxon period |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Place-names of West Berkshire |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Norman West Berkshire |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Donnington Castle |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Jack of Newbury |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| The Tudor cloth industry in Berkshire |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Tudor Newbury |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Researching Tudor Berkshire |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Transport in West Berkshire |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Padworth House |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Sandleford Priory |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| The Swing Riots in the Newbury area |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Victorian Newbury |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| Newbury buildings |
David Peacock |
dpeacockhist@gmail.com |
01635 524017 |
| West Berkshire War Memorials, |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| Newbury Breweries, |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| Newbury Pubs & Inns, |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| Coaching Inns of Newbury, |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| The Almshouses of Newbury |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| The History of Nonconformity in Newbury |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| The House of Toomer+more family history ‘how to’ topics. |
Phil Wood |
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk |
01635 46497 |
| Various aspects of local Berkshire history from the 16th to the 19th centuries, Â based on research into probate inventories, hearth tax records, Â parish registers and census records. |
Jameson Wooders |
j.d.wooders@gmail.com |
0779 6048724 |
| Family History and Genealogy |
Jameson Wooders |
j.d.wooders@gmail.com |
0779 6048724 |
| English Folklore and Calendar Customs |
Jameson Wooders |
j.d.wooders@gmail.com |
0779 6048724 |
| “1914 Mobilization.ÂÂ This describes how the British Army went to war in 1914, looking specifically at the local county infantry regiment of the group to whom the talk is given. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂWomen and the Victorian Army. This describes what life was like for soldiers wives and children in Victorian times, both at home and abroad, in peace and war. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂThe Battle of Maiwand.ÂÂ An account of the defeat of a British force in Afghanistan in 1880 which inspired a poem by Kipling and a massive memorial in the middle of Reading. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂWhat did you do in the War, Granny? – women in the Army in the First World War. A look at the women who joined the WomenÂs Army Auxiliary Corps to do their bit in the First World War. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂThe VC Â Facts and Fancies.ÂÂ The story of the origin of the Victoria Cross and some of the more unusual stories that surround it. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂBritish Army Badges. The story behind the events commemorated on some famous military cap badges. (This includes the Royal Berkshire Regiment.) |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| ÂThe Pig War.ÂÂ A strange event in the 1850s, where Britain and the U.S.A. nearly went to war over the ownership of a tiny island and a pig. |
Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) |
vmsdan@msn.com |
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| 100 years of Shopping in Reading: historic shops in the town centre |
Ann Smith |
wokinghamsmith@gmail.com |
0118 9783430 |
| A History of Woodley |
Ann Smith |
wokinghamsmith@gmail.com |
0118 9783430 |
| Reading’s Proud Photographic Heritage The birth of Photography started in Reading! |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Edible Reading – Famous Factories, Places & Products |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Tilehurst – Victorian Buildings |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Terrys Brief-History of Reading |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Terrys Reading (County) Gaol |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Influential Women of Reading (In development) – now the subject of my book |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Reading’s Architecture – 5 of the most famous architects in the world have buildings in Reading |
Terry Dixon |
terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com |
07505351517 |
| Reading Before Reading: From the Ice Age to the Romans. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Reading and the Anglo Saxons |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Local lad made good: King Alfred the Great |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| The Abbey and the Castle: Reading in the Middle Ages or What did Reading Abbey ever do for us? |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Not for the Town but for the Men: The Siege of Reading, April 1643 |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Hospitum to Workhouse via the Oracle: Social Care and Welfare in Reading from the Middle Ages to 1900. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| General Brock and the Maiwand Lion |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Maiwand: The Battle and the Great Game. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| China Dragons: The Berkshires in China and the Sudan, 1840 and 1885. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Reading Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Early Closing Day: Air Raids on Reading in WW2 |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Under the Bombs: Civil Defence in WW2. |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Part Time Soldiers: Militia to Home Guard 1600-1982 |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Defending Reading from the Vikings to nuclear weapons |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| History of Tilehurst |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| History of Southcote |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| History of Coley and Coley Park (usually in association with Katie Amos) |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| History of Armour Road, Tilehurst |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Tilehurst in WW2 |
Mike Cooper |
coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk |
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