berkshire family history society

Bookable 1-2-1 session for some advice if you need some help or advice with your family history research.

Our speaker will illustrate how information found in local archives, historical societies and through talking with contemporaries pieced together this young mans life.

This talk illustrates how information found in local archives and historical societies combined with the conversations with contemporaries pieced together the life of John Phillips who volunteered for the RAF at the age of 19.

This talk tells the story and explains the development, organisation and activities of a secret and clandestine organisation which would have come into action if the enemy had invaded Britain in World War II.

A talk which reveals the development, organisation and activities of a secret and clandestine organisation which would have come into action if the enemy had invaded Britain in World War II. Although their full story will never be known.

Anne Marsh Caldwell, was a little known, but prolific writer of novels.  Brought up in Linley Wood in Staffordshire she associated with the Wedgwood and Spode families and was married to a wealthy banker. This talk tells of the devastating life events which led her to embark on a writing career.

A talk by Martin Buckland about Herbert George Mullard, who began making concrete in his shed in Cowley in 1923 before moving to the Radley Road in Abingdon. From fence posts to beams for Chiswick Flyover, join us for a nostalgic talk on Cowley Concrete and its founder Herbert Mullard.

Join us for a talk which tells of the wilderness paths which the drovers took to avoid paying tolls and the hear about the tell-tale signs they left on the landscape, including Abingdon when they drove wild Welsh ponies through the town.  Non members £5 pp.

Join us to hear about the daughter of a village Policeman, who grew up in Chilton, Ardington, Faringdon and Lambourn and her disappearance in 1941, the six decades of silence, and the determined research that finally brought her story to light.

An evening designed to encourage open discussion in a small informal gathering. Whether you have hit a brick wall and need advice or made a remarkable discovery, or don’t know where to begin, this is the evening to share. Suitable for all levels of family historians

Although spared the bombs, Oxfordshire felt the deep impact of World War II.  This talk explores how local children and evacuees experienced life during the war - through disruption, adaptation and resilience.  It offers a moving insight into childhood on the home front.