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June 2026
How Do You Talk to Ghosts?
What would the countryside look like today, if we hadn’t shut the farmgate on women after WWII? And how exactly do you talk to ‘ghosts’? Nicola’s second book, Ghosts of the Farm, is a true story of two women who both wanted to be farmers, in the same village in West Berkshire, 60-80 years apart. […]
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.
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?
Create an enduring family tree in YourTrees
Create a comprehensive enduring family tree, that is relevant to the digital generations, and store a copy on YourTrees. The workshop is aimed at those who have already saved versions of their tree(s) on YourTrees, those that are thinking of doing so, or wondering whether they should.
Family History For Free: Tips For Genealogy On A Budget
How to expedite your genealogy without spending too much
Reading Iron Works
From making machinery to supplying essential components for Brunel’s visionary Great Western Railway, Reading Iron Works helped shape the modern world from the banks of the Kennet and Avon Canal. Its story is one of ambition, innovation, and national significance.
Members’ Meeting
The talks will be given by our members when they will be able to tell us about some interesting things that they have found out about their families or about other families who have lived in the area.
Annual General Meeting 2026
51st Annual General Meeting of the Berkshire Family History Society
Tour of St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke
A rare chance to visit St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke. This guided tour with Jacqueline Hazell will include a brief introduction to the Shottesbrooke estate, and the church in particular, and a tour of the church.
Forbury Gardens, Reading
Forbury Gardens is a much-loved part of Reading and has been the backdrop to many important events in the town, from at least 871 when the Danes camped there. Now listed as Grade II in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens it has many hidden stories to tell.
A History of Tilehurst
Discover Tilehurst's place in history, its community and how local events have changed it.
World War One Army Records
Did your ancestor serve in World War I?, then this workshop will help. This workshop will look at what sort of records are available from medal rolls to operational records and where they are to be found, as well as how to interpret them.
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.
Women, the Home and Spanish Flu in the Great War
The Great War was won on the Home Front. This is the story.
July 2026
Education c.1860 – c.1914
Discover how the provision for education for our English ancestors was transformed between 1860 and the start of the First World War in this two hour workshop.
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