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

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.

External links

• Official website

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