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Look Up: An amateur’s guide to architecture
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November 2025
Look Up: An amateur’s guide to architecture
Want to know whether your architecture is polite? Can you spot pargeting, and do you know your English bond from your Flemish bond? Would you know where to find a quoin? Can you sort your mansard from your half hipped? An illustrated talk throughout with local examples – is an amateur’s guide to help you […]
Drop In Advice Session
Bring your questions, problems and ‘brickwalls’ … and get some new ideas and advice from members of the Berkshire Family History Society.
Writing up your Family History Workshop
Have you been researching your family tree and would like to write it up as a story but don't know how to start? In the popular workshop, Barry will help you get started and show you how you can structure it, so that you can write up your family history while still continuing your research.Â
Online Family History Advice Clinic
Are you just getting started in family history and wanting guidance as to how to proceed? Or are you stuck at a particular "brick wall" and need some help?
Children and War: Experiences of the Second World War in Oxfordshire
Though Oxfordshire escaped the bombs of WWII, the war left a lasting impact on the county’s children—both local and evacuee. This engaging talk explores how young lives were shaped by disruption, resilience, and life on the home front.
St Michael and St Mary Magdalene Church, Easthampstead Tour
Join us for this guided tour of the parish church of Easthampstead. First mentioned in 1159, learn about this church’s long history through the dissolution of the monasteries and the Civil War to the present day.
1939 Register
Discover how the 1939 Register can help progress your family history.
Forbury Gardens
The Forbury Gardens is a much-loved part of Reading and has been the backdrop to many important events in the town. Now listed as Grade II in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens it has many hidden stories to tell.
Getting the most out of your Membership Workshop
Are you a relatively new member of the Society? Want to get the most out of your membership? This informal workshop will introduce you to the range of benefits that you have available to you. Questions welcomed. Open only to members of Berkshire Family History Society.
Drop In Advice Session
Bring your questions, problems and ‘brickwalls’ … and get some new ideas and advice from members of the Berkshire Family History Society.
Great War Widows and Emigration
Telling the relatively unknown stories of the plucky women who made new lives overseas after the death of their husbands in the Great War.
A Walk on the River Thames, Pangbourne to Marlow
This talk describes the walk downstream past Reading, Sonning, Wargrave, Henley, Hurley and Bisham to Marlow through water meadows and some of the most beautiful and historic parts of the Thames valley. Bill is a popular speaker to the Society and his journey along the Thames is richly illustrated with images.
Forenames and What They Can Reveal About Ancestors
Alongside traditional forenames that have been used across many generations, birth, marriage and death records reveal that there have always been some parents who selected non-standard names. The talk focusses on the period, c1750 – c1950. It covers the main types of forename that I have identified, including tribute names, commemorative names and localised names. It looks at the inspiration for these names, their rise (and decline), what they may indicate to a historian about social class or wider society, and the effect that an unusual forename might have on the bearer.
The New Poor Law Workshop
Many of our ancestors lives were touched by poverty at some stage. This workshop will both give you context to the New Poor Law of 1834 and help you to understand what documents may be available to further your research, plus how to interpret them.
December 2025
December Natter Group
Informal discussion group, facilitated by Chad Hanna and Gillian Stevens. Topics are chosen by the group on a monthly basis. End time varies. Free to attend, but pre-booking required.Â
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