Places in Berkshire that tell a story of World War One
Bringing fame to Reading as the economic model for how to feed a nation at war
Supplying seeds to the country but the family loses four out of five sons to war
Building barricades to defend Wokingham against invasion
Struggling estate turns into military hospital and produces vegetables for the Navy
Eton Wick village hall hosts one of the first rural baby clinics in 1915
King George V breaks with his German ancestry and renames the Royal family
Reading Gaol replaces criminals with enemy aliens and Irish political prisoners
H & G Simonds encouraged breweries to send beer to the fronts
Women speakers visit French farms in 1916 to inspire English women to work on the land
Riding school at Berkshire Yeomanry headquarters equips farmers and bankers
Life as a teenage girl in Reading during wartime recorded in unique diary
Abolishing tuition fees and shortens military training to produce enough troops
Volunteers provide care and comforts for the wounded in Readingβs War Hospitals
Did these biscuit tin makers develop the prototype for the steel helmet?
Sir Stanley Spencer vividly depicted everyday life on the frontline
Fuselages were lodged in trees at Wantage Hall to train WW1 fighter pilots
βThe Rationβ gives an insight into hospital life through jokes, stories and sketches
The Countess who donned a nurses uniform and set up a hospital for soldiers
Volunteers make crutches, bandages, clothes and artificial limbs for the wounded
Keeping farms going when men went to fight
Waldorf and Nancy Astor open hospital for Canadian soldiers on lavish Cliveden estate
A Reading mother claimed her underage son back from Berkshire Yeomanry
Officers off to war, growing potatoes and a headmaster who was forced to resign
Prisoners lived in stables at the Racecourse when it was turned into an internment camp
