Blog Join us in exploring Reading's history, our community and our objects. All Posts Collections Community Get involved Reading’s history Reading Abbey Things to do Apply Green Girls of Reading 21 Jul 2026 Find out about the history of the Green Girls School in Reading Caversham Bridge: 1926-2026 25 Jun 2026 In this guest blog Helen Lambert explores of history of Caversham Bridge. Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace. Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Find out about the early nunnery in Reading, current archaeological investigations at Cookham, and an Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Slough. Reading to Australia - imprisoned 12,000 miles away from home 30 May 2025 Julian Scola shares his father's story, from arrest in Reading as an Italian 'enemy alien' during WWII to internment in Australia. Ronald Poulton Palmer: A Reading Remembrance 11 Nov 2024 With each year that passes, the end of the First World War stretches further into the past. Find out about Ronald Poulton Palmer, of Reading. The Oracle Gates: Conservation, community, culture 11 Jul 2024 The Oracle Gates displays were reimagined in collaboration with members of charities and community groups involved in HSHAZ cultural activities with Museums Partnership Reading. Routes to Reading 7 May 2024 We explore how people have been coming to Reading to live and work for centuries. Unearthing 'The Gentlemen Danes' in St. Laurence Churchyard 15 Nov 2023 Join John Nixon, author of The Gentlemen Danes, as he shares his latest exciting discovery in the story of the near 600 Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war who lived Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
Caversham Bridge: 1926-2026 25 Jun 2026 In this guest blog Helen Lambert explores of history of Caversham Bridge.
Unlocking Old Windsor: Breathing New Life into an Old Archive 23 Feb 2026 Roland Smith of the Unlocking Old Windsor Project explores the story of this very important finds archive from an excavation undertaken in the 1950s at Old Windsor’s Saxon Palace.
Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Find out about the early nunnery in Reading, current archaeological investigations at Cookham, and an Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Slough.
Reading to Australia - imprisoned 12,000 miles away from home 30 May 2025 Julian Scola shares his father's story, from arrest in Reading as an Italian 'enemy alien' during WWII to internment in Australia.
Ronald Poulton Palmer: A Reading Remembrance 11 Nov 2024 With each year that passes, the end of the First World War stretches further into the past. Find out about Ronald Poulton Palmer, of Reading.
The Oracle Gates: Conservation, community, culture 11 Jul 2024 The Oracle Gates displays were reimagined in collaboration with members of charities and community groups involved in HSHAZ cultural activities with Museums Partnership Reading.
Routes to Reading 7 May 2024 We explore how people have been coming to Reading to live and work for centuries.
Unearthing 'The Gentlemen Danes' in St. Laurence Churchyard 15 Nov 2023 Join John Nixon, author of The Gentlemen Danes, as he shares his latest exciting discovery in the story of the near 600 Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war who lived
