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Meeting & Talk – t.b.d.

Wed, January 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm 9:30 pm

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Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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This meeting is free for AHG members and a meeting fee of £5 for non-members.

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Meeting & Talk – “The Sieges of Basing House”

Wed, April 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm 9:30 pm

Alan Turton will be our speaker on “The Sieges of Basing House”

Alan is a military historian, who specialises in the English Civil War and the period up to the mid-18th century.  From 1987-2011 he was the curator of the English Civil War site of Basing House (once the largest private house in Tudor England), which underwent the longest siege of the English Civil War.

By Baigent, Francis Joseph & Millard, James Elwin (1889). – Source A history of the ancient town and manor of Basingstoke in the county of Southampton; with a brief account of the siege of Basing House, A. D. 1643-1645, pages 428/429, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9921567

https://www.hindsheadaldermaston.co.uk

Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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A.G.M. & talk

Wed, November 6 @ 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

Talk t.b.d.

Aldermaston History Group

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https://www.hindsheadaldermaston.co.uk

Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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2024 Heritage Open Day

Sun, September 8 @ 12:00 pm 5:00 pm

Aldermaston History Group

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Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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80th Anniversary of D-Day

Thu, June 6 @ 10:00 am 5:00 pm

Aldermaston’s marking of the 80th Anniversary is being discussed by the History Group Committee, any suggestions will be welcome

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Meeting & Talk “The Swing Riots”

Wed, July 17 @ 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

A talk about the Swing Riots by Dr David Peacock, who has promised us a connection to The Hinds Head in Aldermaston

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Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England in protest of agricultural mechanisation and harsh working conditions. 

Previously Dr David Peacock gave the History group a talk on Padworth House and then subsequently lead a party of members in a tour of the house.

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Meeting & Talk “Reminiscences of A.E.I. 1956-1963”

Wed, April 17 @ 7:30 pm 9:00 pm

A.E.I. bought Aldermaston Court after WWII and there developed the first private nuclear reactor.

This meeting is free for AHG members
and a meeting fee of £5 for non-members.

https://www.hindsheadaldermaston.co.uk

Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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Latest BLHA Newsletter

The latest and back catalogue of the newsletters from the Berkshire Local History Association

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Heritage Open Day, 2023 – Exhibition in the Hinds Head

Sun, September 10, 2023 @ 11:00 am 5:00 pm

As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days national festival, with a theme this year of “Creativity Unwrapped”, Aldermaston History Group are putting on an exhibition of the creativity that has come from the resident in the form of crafts, performing arts, painting & writing.

Open to the general public, free entrance

https://www.hindsheadaldermaston.co.uk

Hinds Head,Wasing Lane
Aldermaston, Berkshire RG7 4LX United Kingdom
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Aldermaston History Group

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