Craven tenancies; Hovis books; strays in Chester and Wrexham; newsgathering in Maidenhead; home defence forces WWII; Knapps of Shrivenham; Cold Ash; goodies in the Wardrobe

Berkshire's Gretna Green; Newbury Girls' School and child migrants; Waltham St Lawrence; three Reading families; conscription 1750-1900; Wallingtons in Kintbury; at school in White Waltham in WWII

Payne family of Milton; evacuation of mothers and babies WWII; land tenancy in 19th and early 20th centuries; variant spellings of surnames; Vale and Downland Museum; Cookham

Mental health records; Shinfield Charity School; Reading Museum's Victorian schoolroom; school records at the BRO; Enborne

Churching rite in Berkshire; Wargrave; using Ancestry for the census; Fair Mile Hospital; a policeman's lot; civil registration; William Godfrey 1610-96

Hungerford's archives Aldermaston The Newbury Coat A smallpox victim of the 1880s National Monuments Record in Swindon

Banister family of Finchampstead William Leach, grocer of Wokingham 30th anniversary conference Somerset to Berkshire