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A-Z of Windsor & Eton: places – people – history
- £14.99
- This well illustrated A-Z journey through Windsor, Eton and surrounding areas throws interesting, sometimes intriguing, light on the significant heritage of the towns and district.
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Abbot Cook to Zero Degrees: an A to Z of Reading’s Pubs and Breweries
- £12.00
- A comprehensive directory and history of pubs and breweries in Reading, both past and present.
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Coley Talking – realities of life in old Reading
- £12.99
- These recollections of the Coley area of Reading provide an understanding of the area's social, economic and political history - an area now much changed through clearance of poor housing and demolition to accommodate new roads construction. The story of the area is given through its people, its community activities and the day to day struggles of life.
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Emmbrook – So Much More Unfinished History
- £5.00
- The seventh book in this series on Emmbrook (or Embrook) village provides a mix of people, places and events in its history.
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Emmer Green – Past & Present
- £12.00
- This information packed book on Emmer Green traces its history from an estate hamlet to a suburb of Caversham. It is a reprint of the 2003 second edition with additional pages to bring it up to 2022.
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Georgian Newbury
- £15.00
- This book brings to life Georgian Newbury and Georgian society generally. Covering all aspects of town life from education, trade, health, transport to leisure, crime and religion; no part of daily life is ignored.
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Hinton Waldrist – (A Sense of Place)
- £2.95
- Commissioned by the Hinton Waldrist Parish Council and published by Thematic Trails with the help of Longworth and District Local History Society. Presented in the form of two walks that can also be enjoyed at home.
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Hungerford Overseer’s papers 1654-1834
- £25.00
- Berkshire Record Society Volume 27 is a calendar of nearly a thousand poor law cases papers together with other papers relating to attorney bills, and extracts of vestry business, overseer's accounts and Quarter Sessions order books.
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Living in Tudor Windsor: The Records of the Sixteenth-Century Town
- £15.00
- Using the records of the 16th century town this books traces the changes in the town during the turbulent years of the Reformation and the Tudor m0narchy.
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Maidenhead Through Time
- £15.99
- A fascinating selection of photographs showing the many ways in which the town has developed over the last century.
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Memorial Tablet: Marlborough House School and the First World War
- £12.50
- The book traces the history of the 26 names of former pupils of Marlborough House School who lost their lives in the Great War, and are commemorated on the tablet. Their stories are interwoven with the progress of the war itself.
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Reading at War 1939-45
- £11.99
- This book covers the daily life of a town ready for the worst, but one that continued with its daily activities and just got on with its efforts to aid the war effort. It is profusely illustrated with photographs, illustrations and human interest stories, and provides a valuable insight into wartime life in the town.
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Reading: A History
- £25.00
- By Joan Dils, published by Carnegie Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781859362341 The story of Reading is a long and fascinating one, and this superb book by a renowned local historian is a must for anyone with an interest in the history of the town. Over the last 1000 years it has attracted a host of influential individuals from royals and clerics…
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Stanford in the Vale Churchwardens’ Accounts 1552-1705
- £25.00
- Covering 150 years during which there was great social and religious change these churchwardens accounts provide a rich source for the study of parish life.
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The History of Woodley
- £10.00
- This history of Woodley has been compiled by local U3A groups and provides the developments over the centuries to what is now effectively a suburb of Reading.
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Twyford and Ruscombe through the Ages
- £9.95
- This liberally illustrated book provides a comprehensive history of the neighbourhood, its families, occupations, buildings and activities. The author presents this history in ten chapters. With appendices that contain much useful information.
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Up in the Downs (A Portrait of Chilton)
- £14.50
- A Portrait of Chilton produced for the Millennium in photographs and recollections of her people, lavishly illustrated, and with an index of places and people. It traces the change from a small rural village to the site of an advanced nuclear laboratory.
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Wokingham, A Potted History
- £12.99
- The town of Wokingham has a long history and this book provides an accessible picture of this typical country town from its settlement in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. The book traces the town's history through good times and bad, and how its people played their part in great and notable events, and how its buildings have reflected change.
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A History of Three Mile Cross Methodist Church
- £2.00
- There had been a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel since 1860. This book puts together information and anecdotes from various sources to tell the story of the chapel and the people who made it a part of their lives. Liberally illustrated.
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Abingdon Through Time
- £12.00
- SPECIAL BARGAIN PRICE. The well know local author, Pamela Horn has produced this liberally illustrated book of Abingdon, by taking us on a photographic tour around the town showing the buildings and streets of an earlier era.
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Abingdon, Ock Street Remembered
- £5.00
- This well illustrated book published by the Ock Street Heritage Group, describes the trades and people of this historic Abingdon thoroughfare. It also covers the social changes and key events that shaped the area. J Hudson and E Drury, eds (Ock Street Heritage Group, 2008) A4, 44pp
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An Historical Atlas of Berkshire, (2nd Edition)
- £20.00
- This new enlarged edition with 74 articles on Berkshire's history from the Palaeolithic to 21st century each accompanied by maps in full colour, and with numerous illustrations. Indispensable to those with Berkshire ancestors. Joan Dils and Margaret Yates, editors (Berkshire Record Society, 2012) Second edition ISBN: 9780 9548 7169 7
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Abingdon, The People of, Vols 1 and 2
- £11.50
- These booklets contain a miscellany of records including Calendars of prisoners, insolvent debtors, bastardy orders Settlement examinations and lunatics and dangerous idiots etc. etc.
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