Encourages local history research. It publishes a newsletter (recent issues online) and the journal Berkshire Old and New (contents lists online). Diary, readers's queries, membership.

Histories of all the castles and many of the country houses of Berkshire. Castles include small mottes to the largest inhabited castle in the World.

Established in 1948 to locate and preserve records relating to the county of Berkshire and its people, and to make them available for research to anyone who is interested in the county's past. Details of services, news, publications and collections.

David Nash Ford covers county history, maps, towns and villages, churches, castles and houses. The inhabitants are not forgotten, with biographies and family history.