Berkshire_Record_Office

Royal Berkshire Archives

Royal Berkshire Archives

County record office in Berkshire, England

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 75 anniversary, the record office was renamed to Royal Berkshire Archives.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Location". Berkshire Record Office. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Welcome To The Berkshire Record Office". The Berkshire Record Office. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. [3]
    Berkshire Record Office website: The Forbury, 1948-1980
  4. [4]
    Berkshire Record Office website: Shire Hall, 1981-2000
  5. [5]
    Royal Berkshire Archives [@BerksArchives] (10 August 2023). "In tribute to 75 years of archival service in Berkshire, the only Royal County in the UK, we successfully applied for a Royal title. Our new name is the Royal Berkshire Archives. #75Today 🥳" (Tweet). Retrieved 10 August 2023 – via Twitter.

Further reading

  • 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.

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