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 A place strongly fortified: Reading in the English Civil War 26 Jul 2018 It is difficult to imagine Reading today being in the midst of conflict, but it was during the English Civil War Art in the Abbey 20 Jul 2018 Lots of groups are being inspired to explore the abbey and its past in creative ways since the Ruins opened on 16 June 2018. Our first curator: Dr Joseph Stevens 12 Jul 2018 Discover the story of Reading Museum's first curator. After 35 years as a medical doctor he started a second career as an antiquarian. Remembering a King 5 Jul 2018 Reading Abbey is perhaps best known as being the burial place of King Henry I. On the 800th anniversary of the foundation of Reading Abbey in 1921, local philanthropist Dr Victorian Schoolroom Launch 3 Jul 2018 Sandra Gough is a fantastic Session Leader who has worked at Reading Museum for a long time. She loves delivering many of Reading Museum’s Sessions but her particular favourite is Discovering the Roman town at Silchester 30 Jun 2018 You might not expect to stumble across the walls of a Roman town in the Hampshire countryside. Find out how it was rediscovered by Victorian archaeologists. Reading Museum and the MERL: Working together 25 Jun 2018 In a further boost to Reading’s cultural renaissance, MERL and Reading Museum are working together as Museums Partnership Reading until 2027. Making a Medieval Garden 14 Jun 2018 As part of our project Reading Abbey Revealed, we are bringing history to life by making a medieval herb garden at the Abbey Gateway. Roman Life – ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ 8 Jun 2018 Carolyn Morton delivers a range of school sessions in the museum but one of her favourites is ‘Roman Life’. She has worked for Reading Museum for a long time and Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Current page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
A place strongly fortified: Reading in the English Civil War 26 Jul 2018 It is difficult to imagine Reading today being in the midst of conflict, but it was during the English Civil War
Art in the Abbey 20 Jul 2018 Lots of groups are being inspired to explore the abbey and its past in creative ways since the Ruins opened on 16 June 2018.
Our first curator: Dr Joseph Stevens 12 Jul 2018 Discover the story of Reading Museum's first curator. After 35 years as a medical doctor he started a second career as an antiquarian.
Remembering a King 5 Jul 2018 Reading Abbey is perhaps best known as being the burial place of King Henry I. On the 800th anniversary of the foundation of Reading Abbey in 1921, local philanthropist Dr
Victorian Schoolroom Launch 3 Jul 2018 Sandra Gough is a fantastic Session Leader who has worked at Reading Museum for a long time. She loves delivering many of Reading Museum’s Sessions but her particular favourite is
Discovering the Roman town at Silchester 30 Jun 2018 You might not expect to stumble across the walls of a Roman town in the Hampshire countryside. Find out how it was rediscovered by Victorian archaeologists.
Reading Museum and the MERL: Working together 25 Jun 2018 In a further boost to Reading’s cultural renaissance, MERL and Reading Museum are working together as Museums Partnership Reading until 2027.
Making a Medieval Garden 14 Jun 2018 As part of our project Reading Abbey Revealed, we are bringing history to life by making a medieval herb garden at the Abbey Gateway.
Roman Life – ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ 8 Jun 2018 Carolyn Morton delivers a range of school sessions in the museum but one of her favourites is ‘Roman Life’. She has worked for Reading Museum for a long time and
