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This Month's Highlight

Image of Darrell Figgis

May 2013: An Irishman in Reading, Reluctantly

One patriot's experience in the aftermath of the Easter Rising

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April 2013: Fascinating Nature

Natural history from a local perspective

Image of Photograph of Sydney Langford Jones, 1908

March 2013: Doing Porridge

The extraordinary prison art of a Berkshire pacifist

Image of Bomb damage at Wellstead's, Reading, 1943

February 2013: Fire from the Sky

70th anniversary of bombing raids on Newbury and Reading

Image of Wantage coroner's inquisition, 1881

January 2013: Lost in the Snow

A tragic tale from winter long ago

Image of Christmas newspaper advert, 1912

December 2012: Some Christmas Cheer

How Maidenhead was gearing up to celebrate one hundred years ago

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November 2012: Memoirs of an eighteenth century man

Memoirs reveal the strange as well as the mundane

Image of Interior of St Andrew's Hospital, Clewer

October 2012: Good Works in Clewer

A long-gone convalescent home for the poor

Image of Frank Close

August 2012: Local runner goes the distance

Reading Athletic Club's very own Olympian

Image of Dorando Pietri collapses at the finish line

July 2012: Marathon Man

The First London Olympics

Image of Midwife Ross

June 2012: Call the Midwife!

What was midwifery really like in the 1950s?

 

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