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 Ronald Poulton Palmer: A Reading Remembrance 11 Nov 2024 With each year that passes, the end of the First World War stretches further into the past. Yet the war was fought by real people with real dreams and aspirations The Oracle Gates: Conservation, community, culture 11 Jul 2024 High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) status was awarded to Reading for three conservation areas. Reading Borough Council, as one of 68 places in England, received a share of an Routes to Reading 7 May 2024 We explore how people have been coming to Reading to live and work for centuries. ‘Someone will remember us’… LGBTQ+ stories in Reading Museum 6 Mar 2024 For many people, museums act as a repository of not only physical objects, but also the stories that go hand in hand with them. Here at Reading Museum we are Roman Silchester in 3D 19 Feb 2024 Read about our new project to 3D scan objects for handling in the Silchester Gallery. Saturnalia is coming to town! 22 Dec 2023 What do we think of when we think about Christmas? Lots of Christmas traditions can be found in the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia. Unearthing 'The Gentlemen Danes' in St. Laurence Churchyard 15 Nov 2023 Join John Nixon, author of The Gentlemen Danes, as he shares his latest exciting discovery in the story of the near 600 Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war who lived Haunting Histories: The spookiest items in Reading Museum’s loans collection 24 Oct 2023 They’re creepy and they’re kooky… it’s the Reading Museum loans collection! Celebrating Windrush: 75th Anniversary project with a local school 18 Oct 2023 Find about how we marked the 75th anniversary of Windrush Day in collaboration with Reading's Caribbean community. 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 »
Ronald Poulton Palmer: A Reading Remembrance 11 Nov 2024 With each year that passes, the end of the First World War stretches further into the past. Yet the war was fought by real people with real dreams and aspirations
The Oracle Gates: Conservation, community, culture 11 Jul 2024 High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) status was awarded to Reading for three conservation areas. Reading Borough Council, as one of 68 places in England, received a share of an
Routes to Reading 7 May 2024 We explore how people have been coming to Reading to live and work for centuries.
‘Someone will remember us’… LGBTQ+ stories in Reading Museum 6 Mar 2024 For many people, museums act as a repository of not only physical objects, but also the stories that go hand in hand with them. Here at Reading Museum we are
Roman Silchester in 3D 19 Feb 2024 Read about our new project to 3D scan objects for handling in the Silchester Gallery.
Saturnalia is coming to town! 22 Dec 2023 What do we think of when we think about Christmas? Lots of Christmas traditions can be found in the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia.
Unearthing 'The Gentlemen Danes' in St. Laurence Churchyard 15 Nov 2023 Join John Nixon, author of The Gentlemen Danes, as he shares his latest exciting discovery in the story of the near 600 Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war who lived
Haunting Histories: The spookiest items in Reading Museum’s loans collection 24 Oct 2023 They’re creepy and they’re kooky… it’s the Reading Museum loans collection!
Celebrating Windrush: 75th Anniversary project with a local school 18 Oct 2023 Find about how we marked the 75th anniversary of Windrush Day in collaboration with Reading's Caribbean community.
