Links

The following headings provide opportunities for you to investigate further. Books and websites are listed that allow a deeper look into the subjects covered on this site. Many of the books listed here are available through either the Museum shop or the Library. Please contact us at the address on the Contact page if you can not find what you are interested in.

 The Berkshire Record Office

Berkshire Record Office was established in 1948 to locate and preserve records relating to the county of Berkshire and its people, and to make them available for research to anyone who is interested in the county's past. It includes material relating to both local and family history

• Link: Berkshire Record Office

 Reading Borough Libraries 

The site includes an on-line catalogue, information on upcoming events as well as community information and details of your nearest branch library.

• Link: Reading Borough Libraries

 Reading Borough Council

Reading Museum Service, Berkshire Record Office and Reading Libraries are part of Reading Borough Council. The site provides a wealth of information about all aspects of life in Reading.

• Link: Reading Borough Council

 Sites of Interest

• Link: The Friends of Reading Museums
• Link: Reading Foundation For Art
• Link: Reading Arts, including the Hexagon and the Town Hall
• Link: Reading Tourism site, for a guide to Reading, Berkshire
• Link: Making It Work - the practise, appreciation and understanding of contemporary crafts in education
• Link: The BBC history pages
• Link: The 24 Hour Museum
• Link: The National Curriculum website
• Link: Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
• Link: Listening Books, Postal Borrowing and Lending Charity

 Berkshire Museums

• Link: Visit www.BerkshireMuseums.org.uk for links to Museums in Berkshire

 Thames Valley Museums

• Link: Visit another Thames Valley Museum

 Local History

• Link: Berkshire Local History Association - Learn more about Berkshire history
• Link: Emmer Green - A site with information on it's past and present
• Link: Background on Reading chalk mines
• Link: Pages on Thames Valley Papists, 'from Reformation to Emancipation 1534 - 1829'
• Book: Phillips, Daphne - 1980, The Story of Reading,
  Countryside Books, Newbury (1990 second edition, reprinted 1992) ISBN 0 905392 07 8
• Book: Hylton, Stuart - 1992, Reading Places, Reading People,
  Berkshire Books ISBN 0 7509 0060 1
• Book: Petyt, Malcolm - 1993, The Growth of Reading,
  Alan Sutton, ISBN 0 7509 0330 9
• Book: Astill, Grenville G. - 1978 Historic towns in Berkshire; an archaeological appraisal,
  Berkshire Archaeological Committee ISBN 0 904989 01 1
• Book: Victoria County History of Berkshire 1906-27 especially vol II.
• Book: Cecil Slade - The Town of Reading and its Abbey

 Huntley & Palmers

• Link: The Huntley & Palmers Collection, the definitive online resource
• Link: Reading University Library, the H&P Business papers
• Link: The Tin Pages, images of H&P biscuit tins
• Book: Corley, T.A.B. - Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits, Huntley and Palmers of Reading 1822-1972. Hutchinson of London,1972

 Family & Oral History

• Link: Berkshire Family History Society
• Link: Oral History Society, the national organisation for Oral History
• Link: The National Sound Archive at the British Library

 Natural History

• Link: British Entomological and Natural History Society
• Link: Cole Museum of Comparative Zoology, Reading University
• Link: Herbarium, Reading University
• Link: Fishbase, a global information source on fishes
• Link: UKMoths, an online guide to the moths of Great Britain and Ireland

 Roman Silchester

• Link: The official Silchester dig website
• Link: Hampshire's Silchester webpages
• Book: George C Boon - Silchester The Roman Town of Calleva
• Book: Michael Fulford - Silchester Defences 1974-80
• Book: Michael Fulford - The Silchester Amphitheatre Excavations of 1979-85
• Book: Michael Fulford and Jane Timby - Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester. Excavations on the site of the Forum-Basilica

 Berkshire Archaeology

• Link: Archaeological past of the Oracle Shopping Centre
• Link: Berkshire Archaeological Society
• Book: Berkshire County Council - Prehistoric Berkshire
• Book: Berkshire County Council - Roman Berkshire
• Book: Berkshire County Council - Medieval Berkshire
• Book: Roy Adkins and Ralph Jackson - Neolithic Stone and Flint Axes from the Thames

 Numismatics

• Book: Philip de Jersey - Celtic Coinage in Britain
• Book: P J Casey - Roman Coinage in Britain
• Book: Denis Cooper - Coins and Minting

 Art

• Link: National Art Library
• Link: Ashmolean Museum
• Link: Stanley Spencer Gallery
• Link: Tate Britain
• Link: OpenHand OpenSpace - Studios & Gallery
• Link: The National Art Collections Fund
• Link: Saatchi Gallery

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