Inside this issue: Memories of Kintbury life; The Jane Austen Connection; Berkshire Burials 12; Berkshire Genealogy on Facebook

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

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

A Victorian family scandal; how a fishergirl married a viscount; entertainment for the Victorian masses; Liddiard family gathering

King & Country roadshow; villages on fire; street history in Burghfield; a bigamous soldier; the change to the Julian calendar

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