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Royal Berkshire History - David Nash Ford covers county history, maps, towns and villages, churches, castles and houses. The inhabitants are not forgotten, with biographies and family history.
Berkshire Local History Association - 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.
The Miles Aircraft Story - Stories from Berkshire's aviation heritage told in a series of paintings and commentary by aviation artist and historian Geoff Beckett.
Britannia: Narrative History of Berkshire Introduction - Introduction to Berkshire's history by Brenda Ralph Lewis and David Nash Ford.
Berkshire Record Office - 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.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling History Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein History For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow History Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor History Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) History Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii History Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance History NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) History "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA History Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw History "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) History Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw History "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) History When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous History The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy History "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" History Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas in a review Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) History Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer History Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller History "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben History
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