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Meeting programme

Next meeting

Tuesday April 14th 2026

Reading – Ice age to Romans

Mike Cooper

Imagine a Woolly Mammoth feeding along the Tilehurst Road or a Bronze-Age village by the M4!

This talk examines the evidence of human settlement around Reading from the hunter-gatherers to the Romans

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New 'From the archives' item added

Wargrave and Shiplake Regatta - programme from September 1888

Although the Wargrave and Shiplake Regatta has been held in early August for well over a century, it was not always so ...

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February meeting report

Trooper Potts VC
Richard Bennett DL, Brig Tony Verey QVRM TD DL and Capt Andrew French

10th February 2026

February's meeting was a presentation which explained why Fred Potts VC, from Reading, became known as ‘The Hero with the Shovel’ for his deeds on the battlefield of Gallipoli in August 1915

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January meeting report

The Bull Hotel at Wargrave

Jayne Worrall

13 January 2026

The subject of the Society’s January meeting was The Bull Hotel at Wargrave, when the present landlady, Jayne Worrall recounted its history, in what she called ‘an informal chat’ about her ‘three lives’ at the Bull. The Bull is around 600 years old, having started as a 15th century coaching inn - somewhere where travellers could obtain refreshment, and the horses could also take a rest

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