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Before the introduction of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales in 1837, it is the parochial registers recording the baptisms, marriages and burials of our ancestors

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Has your family started planning for inheritance tax (IHT)? Investment platform Quilter suggests that by 2027, one in five adults over the age of 55 could have estates large enough to bring their heir

On 10 August 1948 Felix Hull became Berkshire’s first county archivist. He was working out of the basement of Reading’s old Shire Hall, now the Roseate Hotel, and collections under his care eventually

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