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- Books, Local and Social History
Emmer Green – Past & Present
- £12.00
- This information packed book on Emmer Green traces its history from an estate hamlet to a suburb of Caversham. It is a reprint of the 2003 second edition with additional pages to bring it up to 2022.
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Georgian Newbury
- £15.00
- This book brings to life Georgian Newbury and Georgian society generally. Covering all aspects of town life from education, trade, health, transport to leisure, crime and religion; no part of daily life is ignored.
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- Berkshire FHS Publications, CDs, Parish Registers - all denominations
Newbury, St Nicolas Parish Registers, 1538-1965 CD
- £12.00
- This CD contains a full transcription of the parish registers and is fully indexed. It also contains a brief history of Newbury. The Coverage is: Baptisms 1538-1910, Banns 1754-1904, Marriages 1538-1917 and Burials 1538-1965.
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- Books, Genealogy
Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline
- £12.99
- This timeline guide to genealogical resources helps the family historian to understand what records are available and from when, and allows to put our ancestors into a historical and socio-cultural context.
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- Books, Local and Social History, Photos
Up in the Downs (A Portrait of Chilton)
- £14.50
- A Portrait of Chilton produced for the Millennium in photographs and recollections of her people, lavishly illustrated, and with an index of places and people. It traces the change from a small rural village to the site of an advanced nuclear laboratory.
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- Books, Local and Social History
Wokingham, A Potted History
- £12.99
- The town of Wokingham has a long history and this book provides an accessible picture of this typical country town from its settlement in Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. The book traces the town's history through good times and bad, and how its people played their part in great and notable events, and how its buildings have reflected change.
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- Berkshire FHS Publications, Books, Genealogy, Recommended
A Secretary Hand, an ABC Book
- £7.00
- With thousands of copies sold, this very popular handy guide to “secretary hand” includes illustrations of characters A to Z, common abbreviations, practice words, numbers and some samples and transcripts of wills 16th to 18th centuries, nursery rhymes and a list of words. Written by former chairman Alf Ison, this book is published by Berkshire Family History Society.
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- Books, Local and Social History
Abingdon, Ock Street Remembered
- £5.00
- This well illustrated book published by the Ock Street Heritage Group, describes the trades and people of this historic Abingdon thoroughfare. It also covers the social changes and key events that shaped the area. J Hudson and E Drury, eds (Ock Street Heritage Group, 2008) A4, 44pp
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- Books, Local and Social History, Maps
An Historical Atlas of Berkshire, (2nd Edition)
- £20.00
- This new enlarged edition with 74 articles on Berkshire's history from the Palaeolithic to 21st century each accompanied by maps in full colour, and with numerous illustrations. Indispensable to those with Berkshire ancestors. Joan Dils and Margaret Yates, editors (Berkshire Record Society, 2012) Second edition ISBN: 9780 9548 7169 7
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- Berkshire FHS Publications, CDs, Monumental Inscriptions
Berkshire Monumental Inscriptions Collection, Vol. 1 (CD)
- £10.00
- Reissue on CD of transcriptions of the extant memorial inscriptions and maps of the burial grounds of the churchyards of Aldworth, Ashampstead, Lower Basildon, Midgham Park, Reading St Laurence, Remenham, Shippon, and Woolhampton
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- Berkshire FHS Publications, CDs, Monumental Inscriptions
Berkshire Monumental Inscriptions Collection, Vol. 2 (CD)
- £10.00
- Reissue on CD of transcriptions of the extant memorial inscriptions and maps of the burial grounds of the churchyards of Beech Hill, Caversham Victoria Road/Hemdean Road, Eddington, Goosey, Lyford, Midgham, Mortimer Methodist, Newbury St Nicholas, Newbury URC and Oare.
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- Berkshire FHS Publications, CDs, Monumental Inscriptions
Berkshire Monumental Inscriptions Collection, Vol. 3 (CD)
- £10.00
- Provides data of over 4,500 people from several churchyards previously available only on fiche: Avington; Enborne; Grazeley (new); Grove; Hungerford St Lawrence; Reading Baptist burial ground; Shurlock Row All Saints (new); Theale and Winterbourne. Files are in PDF format.
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