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 Loans Box Curiosities: Stonehenge and Bronze Age Archaeology 28 Jul 2025 Welcome to the next instalment of our Loan Box Curiosities series. This time we’re going to look at two boxes, Stonehenge, and Bronze Age Archaeology. Loan Box Curiosities: Ancient Writing 24 Jul 2025 We have been offering our loan service to schools around Reading for over 100 years. We’re back again with another blog looking at Ancient writing. The People of Silchester 23 Jul 2025 We exclusively reveal research into human remains from Iron Age and Roman Silchester, including a man with Spanish heritage in late Iron Age Britain. 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. Loan Box Curiosities: Roman Crafts and Industries 8 May 2025 Welcome to the next instalment in a series of blogs about our school loan boxes. This time round we’re looking at Roman crafts and industries. Romans in Reading: what you've told us so far! 15 Apr 2025 Reading Museum’s new project ‘Roman Britain - Reimagined in Reading’ is consulting a wide range of stakeholders. Arctic Birds On the Wing 24 Mar 2025 It's springtime, which in the UK means the return of the dawn chorus. When we think of UK birds, we often think of songbirds like the thrush, the blackbird, or 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
Loans Box Curiosities: Stonehenge and Bronze Age Archaeology 28 Jul 2025 Welcome to the next instalment of our Loan Box Curiosities series. This time we’re going to look at two boxes, Stonehenge, and Bronze Age Archaeology.
Loan Box Curiosities: Ancient Writing 24 Jul 2025 We have been offering our loan service to schools around Reading for over 100 years. We’re back again with another blog looking at Ancient writing.
The People of Silchester 23 Jul 2025 We exclusively reveal research into human remains from Iron Age and Roman Silchester, including a man with Spanish heritage in late Iron Age Britain.
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.
Loan Box Curiosities: Roman Crafts and Industries 8 May 2025 Welcome to the next instalment in a series of blogs about our school loan boxes. This time round we’re looking at Roman crafts and industries.
Romans in Reading: what you've told us so far! 15 Apr 2025 Reading Museum’s new project ‘Roman Britain - Reimagined in Reading’ is consulting a wide range of stakeholders.
Arctic Birds On the Wing 24 Mar 2025 It's springtime, which in the UK means the return of the dawn chorus. When we think of UK birds, we often think of songbirds like the thrush, the blackbird, or
