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 Reading's waterway heritage 9 Jan 2026 This year we are celebrating Reading's waterways and the 100th anniversary of the current Caversham Bridge. Reading is the meeting point of multiple watercourses, particularly the River Thames and River Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal 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 High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) status was awarded to Reading for three conservation areas. Reading Borough Council, as one of 68 places in England, received a share of an 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 Reading Bridge 1923- 2023 3 Oct 2023 Guest Blog from Helen Lambert, Chair of Caversham and District Residents Association Celebrating 300 years of the Kennet Navigation 6 Jun 2023 Read on to learn about the beginnings of Kennet Navigation in this guest blog by Matthew Girling for the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust. 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 »
Reading's waterway heritage 9 Jan 2026 This year we are celebrating Reading's waterways and the 100th anniversary of the current Caversham Bridge. Reading is the meeting point of multiple watercourses, particularly the River Thames and River
Saxon nuns, Viking raiders and Norman invaders 1 Aug 2025 Over 100 years before King Henry I founded Reading Abbey in 1121 there was another monastery located in Reading; a nunnery probably established by a member of an Anglo-Saxon royal
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 High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) status was awarded to Reading for three conservation areas. Reading Borough Council, as one of 68 places in England, received a share of an
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
Reading Bridge 1923- 2023 3 Oct 2023 Guest Blog from Helen Lambert, Chair of Caversham and District Residents Association
Celebrating 300 years of the Kennet Navigation 6 Jun 2023 Read on to learn about the beginnings of Kennet Navigation in this guest blog by Matthew Girling for the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.
