Author: Penny Stokes

A Victorian family scandal; how a fishergirl married a viscount; entertainment for the Victorian masses; Liddiard family gathering

King & Country roadshow; villages on fire; street history in Burghfield; a bigamous soldier; the change to the Julian calendar

The Ration – Reading’s WWI war hospital newspaper; who are you calling Mrs?; raising the bar at Enborne school; perjurer, or victim of miscarriage of justice?; a peep behind three gravestones at Sunninghill

People on the move; home-makers in Reading; Newbury schoolgirls in wartime; insults in a parish register

WWI exemptions from combat; at home in Reading 1947; virtual geography of Berkshire; noble ancestry?; face to face with your forebears; a Kintbury boyhood

War memorials: refurbishing, recording and researching; veteran of two world wars; home-making in the late 1940s; Scandal in Scotland; quack medicine