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Putting Berkshire on the map – University of Reading

Many individuals and departments of the University have contributed to An Historical Atlas of Berkshire, recently published by the Berkshire Record Society. More than half of its fifty-eight articles were written by academic staff and research students, past and present. The editor, Mrs Joan Dils, is a former lecturer in the Centre for Continuing Education, and some of the Centre's part-time local history tutors are among the contributors. Other participants in the project include members of the Departments of History (who supplied 18 articles), Archaeology and Economics, PRIS and the Rural History Centre. The maps which accompany each article, together with five reference maps, were drawn by Mrs Heather Browning of the Geography Department, the cover illustration is from the Rural History Centre collection, and the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication was responsible for the design and printing. A well-attended reception to celebrate the publication was held in the Long Gallery of Englefield House by kind permission of Sir William Benyon, the Society's patron, where Mrs Dils talked briefly about the Atlas.