Reading History Trail
Index Map People Places Themes Timeline Trail

History

Saxons and Vikings

Middle Ages

Tudor

Stuart

Georgian

Victorian

20th Century

Introduction

Welcome to the Reading History Trail, a local history resource for the Reading area.

The idea of this site is to explain how historical events connect on a local scale. There are several starting points, these are the

  • Map of the town centre.
  • People. A list of famous people from Reading's past.
  • Places. An alphabetical list of the places in the trail.
  • Timeline. Timelines of important events in Reading's history. There is a timeline for each of the themes.
  • Themes. Different themes explored chronologically.
  • Trail. Awalk through Reading looking at aspects of the past
  • Index
To leave the site and return click on the exit button.

This site is at present entirely self-contained, with no external links at all. This is to stop young people leaving the site and reaching possibly undesirable sites.

This first draft of this site is now complete. If you find any incorrect links (they do all go somewhere) please email the address below.

To find the present status of the site click here.

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