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 |
Georgian Cookery | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Berkshire & South Oxfordshire Churches: hidden gems & stories | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Living Through the Civil War: the impact on the people in and around Reading | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Royal Weddings | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Royal Women | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Images of old Purley on Thames | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Purley's River Estate - a 1930s plotland development | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
The mysterious Canning Tomb in Purley's Churchyard | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
A Stroll through Berkshires Graveyards | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Who Do We Think We Are? | Catherine Sampson | clspurley@aol.com | 07764 234929 |
Life, work and death in a medieval town: Windsor in the Middle Ages | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
Medieval New Windsor 1110-1548 | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The great water conduit of Windsor Castle, a wonder of sixteenth century engineering | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The History of Eton before the College | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The History of Old Windsor | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The life and times of Robert Tebbott: a nineteenth-century rags to riches builder, and friend of kings | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The oldest profession in an old town: the long history of immorality in Windsor | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
The scandal of the Windsor martyrs: protestants heretics of the Reformation? | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
Windsor Castle 1100-1700 | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
Windsor's medieval hospital of St Peter | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
Windsor's medieval town guild of the Holy Trinity | David Lewis | dglx10@hotmail.com | |
History of the gas industry in Berkshire | Jo Alexander-Jones | joalexanderjones@gmail.com | |
Let there be gas a history of the gas industry and associated technologies in the UK | Jo Alexander-Jones | joalexanderjones@gmail.com | |
More than Biscuits, Beer and Bulbs Readings Other Industries | Jo Alexander-Jones | joalexanderjones@gmail.com | |
The Development and Redevelopment of Huntley & Palmers Biscuit Factory 1800-2000 | Joe Doak | joedoak17@gmail.com | 07745 507892 |
An Historical Tour of the Streets of Old Coley | Joe Doak | joedoak17@gmail.com | 07745 507892 |
A Trip Around the IDR: Before and After | Joe Doak | joedoak17@gmail.com | 07745 507892 |
Revolutionary, Rogue and Regicide: The Life and Times of Henry Marten of Berkshire | Joe Doak | joedoak17@gmail.com | 07745 507892 |
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 |
Bells & bricks (two local Wokingham industries) | John Harrison | john@jaharrison.me.uk | 0118 978 5520 |
Settle-Carlisle Railway (history and evolution) | 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 |
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 |
Settle-Carlisle Railway (history and evolution) | John Harrison | john@jaharrison.me.uk | 0118 978 5520 |
Beginning your family history | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
Family history - the dark side | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
Curtains Up! A look at the history of the venues belonging to Reading Arts - the Town Hall, Hexagon and South Street. | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
The Mansion House, Reading | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
Coley - an historical introduction | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
Local Studies Illustrations collection | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
The History of Yeomanry House | Katie Amos | kamos24@hotmail.com | |
China Dragons: The Berkshires in China and the Sudan, 1840 and 1885. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Defending Reading from the Vikings to nuclear weapons | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Early Closing Day: Air Raids on Reading in WW2 | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
General Brock and the Maiwand Lion | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
History of Armour Road, Tilehurst | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
History of Coley and Coley Park (usually in association with Katie Amos) | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
History of Southcote | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
History of Tilehurst | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Hospitum to Workhouse via the Oracle: Social Care and Welfare in Reading from the Middle Ages to 1900. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Local lad made good: King Alfred the Great | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Maiwand: The Battle and the Great Game. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Not for the Town but for the Men: The Siege of Reading, April 1643 | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Part Time Soldiers: Militia to Home Guard 1600-1982 | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Reading and the Anglo Saxons | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Reading Before Reading: From the Ice Age to the Romans. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Reading Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
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 | |
Tilehurst in WW2 | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Under the Bombs: Civil Defence in WW2. | Mike Cooper | coopmik1418@yahoo.co.uk | |
Dunkirk: A Miracle of Deliverance | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Magna Carta: The Dawn of British Democracy | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Seeking the North-West Passage: The Franklin Expedition, Lost and Found | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Piltdown Man: A Cautionary Tale | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Not all Beer and Skittles: A Short History of Pubs, Beer and Breweries | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Richard III: History, Myths and the Man | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Treasures of the Anglo Saxons: Sutton Hoo and the Staffordshire Hoard | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Waterloo: A Near Run Thing | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Lost, Stolen Away or Strayed: Missing ancestors and how to find them | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Where there's a Will ... there's usually an argument | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Tall Tales, Secrets and Ordinary Lives: Exploring family history | Sue Ellis | susancarveth@gmx.com | 01189 712428 |
Edible Reading - Famous Factories, Places & Products | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Influential Women of Reading (In development) - now the subject of my book | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Reading's Architecture - 5 of the most famous architects in the world have buildings in Reading | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Reading's Proud Photographic Heritage The birth of Photography started in Reading! | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Terrys Brief-History of Reading | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Terrys Reading (County) Gaol | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Tilehurst - Victorian Buildings | Terry Dixon | terry.dixon89@virginmedia.com | 7505351517 |
Donnington Castle | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Jack of Newbury | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Newbury buildings | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Norman West Berkshire | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Padworth House | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Place-names of West Berkshire | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Researching Tudor Berkshire | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Sandleford Priory | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
The history of NewburyPrehistory 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 |
The Seven Barrows at LambournHillforts of the Newbury area | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
The Swing Riots in the Newbury area | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
The Tudor cloth industry in Berkshire | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Transport in West Berkshire | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Tudor Newbury | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
Victorian Newbury | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
West Berkshire in the Anglo-Saxon period | David Peacock | dpeacockhist@gmail.com | 01635 524017 |
English Folklore and Calendar Customs | Jameson Wooders | j.d.wooders@gmail.com | 0779 6048724 |
Family History and Genealogy | Jameson Wooders | j.d.wooders@gmail.com | 0779 6048724 |
Various aspects of local Berkshire history from the 16th to the 19th centuries, based on research into probate inventories, hearth tax records, parish registers and census records. | Jameson Wooders | j.d.wooders@gmail.com | 0779 6048724 |
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 |
Burial Grounds of London | Leslie Grout | | 01753 851947 |
St. George's Chapel | Leslie Grout | | 01753 851947 |
Are you Married? Or Do You Live in Maidenhead? - Centuries of Gossip 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 |
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 |
Maidenhead and the Movies, including:Hammer Horror,'Carry On Nurse'and Gerry Mr.Thunderbirds Anderson | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
Grandma Flew Spitfires: the Amazing Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary; | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
The History of Maidenhead's Hospitals. | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
The History of Ray Lodge; | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
The History of White Waltham Airfield; | 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 |
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 Riverside Mansions | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
The Dunkirk Little Ships | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
With 3 men in a boat from Kingston to Oxford | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
Maidenhead and the Olympics | Maidenhead Heritage Centre | info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk | 01628 780555 |
Abingdon and Reading history. | Manfred Brod | manfred@jessman.net | 01865 391507 |
Berkshire in 16th and 17th centuries, especially political and religious history. | Manfred Brod | manfred@jessman.net | 01865 391507 |
Dr Pordage of Bradfield and his mystical society; | Manfred Brod | manfred@jessman.net | 01865 391507 |
Henry Marten the regicide. | 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 |
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 |
A History of Wargrave, | Peter Delaney | | 0118 9403121 |
Madame Tussaud is Buried in Wargrave? - traps for the unwary!, | Peter Delaney | | 0118 9403121 |
Royal Blue - a history of the express coach operator | Peter Delaney | | 0118 9403121 |
A stroll in the park: the story of England's royal, private and public parks. | Peter Halman | prh@vinery.co.uk | 0118 940 4500 |
The Thames from Oxford to Windsor: shaping history through the centuries. | Peter Halman | prh@vinery.co.uk | 0118 940 4500 |
Coaching Inns of Newbury, | 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 |
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 |
West Berkshire War Memorials, | Phil Wood | phil@burrell-wood.org.uk | 01635 46497 |
Shaw House: 400 Years of History | Sarah Somerville | sarah.somerville1@westberks.gov.uk | |
A Guide's Guide: Working in History Houses in the 21st Century | Sarah Somerville | sarah.somerville1@westberks.gov.uk | |
A Walk Around St George's Chapel,Windsor Castle | Stan Cornford | meteorology@ntlworld.com | 01344 422992 |
Henry the Carter, | Stan Cornford | meteorology@ntlworld.com | 01344 422992 |
Three Berkshire Brothers Go to War, | Stan Cornford | meteorology@ntlworld.com | 01344 422992 |
"1914 Mobilization. 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 | |
British 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 | |
The Battle of Maiwand. 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 | |
The Pig War. 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 | |
The VC Facts and Fancies. 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 | |
What did you do in the War, Granny? - women in the Army in the First World War. A look at the women who joined the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps to do their bit in the First World War. | Victorian Military Society (Dan Allen) | vmsdan@msn.com | |
Women 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 | |