Slough's fab Thunderbirds story
Find out about the woman who gave Lady Penelope her voice and helped create Thunderbirds.

Windsor, quirky facts and myths
Windsor's secrets are revealed in a new book by Caroline Wagstaff.

Audio slideshow: Potts - the hero with the shovel
Discover the remarkable story of the late WWI hero Fred Potts, the only Reading soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

'My grandfather was a bigamist'
By researching her family's history Karen Kimberley uncovered the stories of a Pole, a bigamist and a suffragette.

Origins of Oracle shopping centre
The Oracle shopping mall in Reading celebrated its tenth anniversary on 23 September 2009, but the site is far older.

Thatcham - the oldest in Britain?
A new book Thatcham's history looks at evidence that the town may be the oldest 'continuously inhabited' place in Britain.

Reading FC's name in floodlights
Two former Reading players remember a historic football game that took place at Elm Park on 6 October 1954.

Oscar Wilde and the Palmer family
The literary icon was sent to Reading Gaol in 1895, but his link to the town isn't just with the prison.

The syphilitic Newbury skeleton
A syphilitic skeleton unearthed in Newbury disproves a theory about explorer Christopher Columbus.

Life as child evacuee in Mortimer
Bob Edwardson was evacuated to the Berkshire village of Mortimer and met his wife-to-be.