Blog Join us in exploring Reading's history, our community and our objects. All Posts Collections Community Get involved Reading Abbey Reading’s history 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 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. Rebuilding Reading Abbey - virtually! 8 Jun 2018 Over the past year we have created a new digital model of Reading Abbey to provide images of how the abbey looked in its heyday. The fight for life and liberty 1 Jun 2018 Working people in Reading started organising themselves to seek better pay and employment conditions from the mid-19th century. Reading’s Top Ten Biscuit Tins 29 Mar 2018 Reading is the home of the biscuit tin. Explore the history of two great Reading companies through the humble tin. Strictly school: life in a Victorian classroom 8 Mar 2018 To peer around the door of a Victorian schoolroom is to encounter another world. Five Reading citizens and the fight for votes for women 1 Feb 2018 100 years ago Reading citizens played an active role in the fight to extend the vote and democracy in the UK. The Day Reading Was Bombed: The People’s Pantry 75 years on 30 Jan 2018 Local historian Mike Cooper, explores the events of 10 February 1943, when the centre of Reading was bombed with the loss of 41 lives. Five things you probably didn’t know about Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry 19 Jan 2018 Five facts that you might not know about Britain's Bayeux Tapestry at Reading Museum. Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Current page 9 Page 10 Page 11 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
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.
Rebuilding Reading Abbey - virtually! 8 Jun 2018 Over the past year we have created a new digital model of Reading Abbey to provide images of how the abbey looked in its heyday.
The fight for life and liberty 1 Jun 2018 Working people in Reading started organising themselves to seek better pay and employment conditions from the mid-19th century.
Reading’s Top Ten Biscuit Tins 29 Mar 2018 Reading is the home of the biscuit tin. Explore the history of two great Reading companies through the humble tin.
Strictly school: life in a Victorian classroom 8 Mar 2018 To peer around the door of a Victorian schoolroom is to encounter another world.
Five Reading citizens and the fight for votes for women 1 Feb 2018 100 years ago Reading citizens played an active role in the fight to extend the vote and democracy in the UK.
The Day Reading Was Bombed: The People’s Pantry 75 years on 30 Jan 2018 Local historian Mike Cooper, explores the events of 10 February 1943, when the centre of Reading was bombed with the loss of 41 lives.
Five things you probably didn’t know about Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry 19 Jan 2018 Five facts that you might not know about Britain's Bayeux Tapestry at Reading Museum.
