Royal Berkshire Archives
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The Royal Berkshire Archives is the record office for the county of Berkshire in the United Kingdom. It is located in Reading.[1] It opened as the Berkshire Record Office on 10 August 1948 in The Forbury, Reading.[2][3] It moved to the new Shire Hall beside the M4 in 1981, and to its present home in Coley Avenue, Reading, in 2000.[4] On 10 August 2023, its 75th anniversary, the record office was renamed to Royal Berkshire Archives.[5]
References
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- ^ Berkshire Record Office website: The Forbury, 1948-1980
- ^ Berkshire Record Office website: Shire Hall, 1981-2000
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Flynn, Sarah & Stevens, Mark. 'Petty criminals, publicans and sinners : petty sessions records in the Berkshire Record Office', Journal of the Society of Archivists 16 (1995), 41–53.
- Green, Angela. 'The Berkshire Record Office', Berkshire Archaeological Journal 68 (1975-6), 89–95.
- Hull, Felix. 'The Berkshire Record Office', Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 51 (1949 for 1948–9), 10–16.
- Walne, Peter. 'Local archives of Great Britain, 18: the Berkshire Record Office', Archives 4:22 (1959), 65–74.
External links
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