Heraldry: more than just logos for nobles
Heraldry can help with family history research, and there are many sources freely available online.
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19 Feb 2020
The Victorian Plentys
At the Newbury Branch January 2020 meeting Ellie Thorne of the Berkshire Record Office outlined the history of the Plenty company, an innovative and successful engineering firm founded at the turn of the nineteenth century. Lifeboats, steam engines, boilers, pumps, diesel engines and even a delivery van were produced at Plenty's Eagle Ironworks in the heart of Newbury.
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16 Jan 2020
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A rascal from Shinfield; what they say about family historians; stories from Newbury’s Newtown Road Cemetery; Hydes and their hidden faith; Endell Street Hospital; English Poor Law and a Canadian mystery; evacuated to Kintbury
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Poachers in the dock; a quest for some publican ancestors; a Victorian school day; grandfathers in WWI; the Herridges, a Purley family; a Christmas quiz to test your knowledge of the royal county
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A Victorian family scandal; how a fishergirl married a viscount; entertainment for the Victorian masses; Liddiard family gathering
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King & Country roadshow; villages on fire; street history in Burghfield; a bigamous soldier; the change to the Julian calendar
01 Jun 2015
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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
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