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Berkshire
Berkshire or Berks , former county, S central England. Part of the ancient kingdom of Wessex and the birthplace of King Alfred , the county of Berkshire was abolished as an administrative entity in 1998 and divided into the unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slo... Read more
Pittsfield
Pittsfield city (1990 pop. 48,622), seat of Berkshire co., W Mass., between mountain ranges, on branches of the Housatonic River; inc. as a town 1761, as a city 1889. The city is the metropolis of the Berkshire resort area. Once a farming community, it developed industrially in the 19th cent. as a ... Read more
Reading
Reading rĕd´Ĭng , city (1991 pop. 194,727), S central England, on the Kennet River near its influx to the Thames. The city of Reading, which was the seat of the former county of Berkshire, is a market center with iron founding, engineering, malting, brewing, and biscuit and seed ind... Read more
New England Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; est. 1867, chartered and opened 1870. It is closely associated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. Jordan Hall, its main auditorium, is noted for recitals and performances by outstanding ... Read more
Newbury
Newbury town (1991 pop. 31,488), West Berkshire, S central England. In a farming region, Newbury trades in wool, malt, and farm products. Paper, furniture, and metal products are also made. In the Middle Ages the town was an important textile manufacturing center. The 16th-century cloth hall contai... Read more
Serge Koussevitzky
Serge Koussevitzky (Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky) , 1874-1951, Russian-American conductor, studied in Moscow. He began his career as a double bass player. In 1908 he made his debut as a conductor in Berlin. In 1910 he and his wife, Natalie, formed an orchestra that Koussevitzky conducted unt... Read more
Amy Robsart
Amy Robsart , 1532-60, maiden name of the wife of Robert Dudley, later earl of Leicester , a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England. When Lady Dudley was found dead at the foot of a staircase in Cumnor Hall, Berkshire, rumor had it that her husband had arranged her murder so that he might be free... Read more
Berkshire Festival
Berkshire Festival , summer music festival, held since 1937 at "Tanglewood," a former estate in the adjoining towns of Stockbridge and Lenox, Mass. The Berkshire Festivals were begun in 1934 at a farm in Stockbridge. Henry Hadley conducted an orchestra composed largely of members of the New Y... Read more
Thames
Thames tĕmz , Rom. Tamesis, principal river of England, c.210 mi (340 km) long. It rises in four headstreams (the Thames or Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach) in the Cotswold Hills, E Gloucestershire, and flows generally eastward across S England and through London to the North Sea at The Nore. I... Read more
Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole , 1617-92, English archaeologist and antiquary. He made exhaustive antiquarian studies, especially The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter (1672) and The Antiquities of Berkshire (3 vol., 1719). In 1677 he donated to the Univ. of Oxford a collection of curio... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Reading, Berkshire"

Berkshire
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Berkshire Former county in s central England...unitary authorities; the county town was Reading . Berkshire lies almost entirely within the River...basin, which marks the n border. The Berkshire Downs run across the county. It is...
Reading
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Reading. County town of Berkshire, situated where the river Kennet...1539), and not until 1542 did Reading become an autonomous borough. From...and Archbishop Laud was the son of a Reading clothier. The town suffered badly...
WEST COUNTRY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Plymouth and Bourne-mouth, rhoticity varies. Traces of variable r -pronunciation are found as close to London as Reading in Berkshire. Pronunciation For many people in Britain and elsewhere, traditional West Country has become stereotyped as rustic...
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...inherited the estate of Pusey, in Berkshire, where Edward was born on...Pusey labored endlessly, reading for as much as 17 hours a...Pusey died at Ascot Priory, Berkshire, on Sept. 16, 1882. Further Reading The basic biography of Pusey...useful anthology of primary readings is Owen ...
John Newbery
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was born in 1713 in Waltham, Berkshire, England. He was the son...boy also had a great love of reading and was drawn to a career that...to a printer in the town of Reading, nine miles from his home...Carnan's newspaper, the Reading Mercury. Eventually, Newbery...
Warren Buffett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. For example...fortune of some $12 billion in Berkshire stock, was the second-wealthiest...five to six hours each day reading annual reports and trade publications...at a stretch in his office, reading, talking on the phone, and...
David Brown Milne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Milne settled at Boston Corner in the Berkshire Hills. At the end of 1917 he joined...to be; the streets of New York, the Berkshire Hills and lakes in the Adirondacks...his sensitive painting style. Further Reading Background material on Milne is in Graham...
Englefield, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...the battle at Englefield to the west of Reading in early 871 marks the opening of the...xC6;thelwulf, the ealdorman of Berkshire. Four days later, however, Æ...Danes from their campaign headquarters at Reading. The failure led directly into the so...
Luciano Berio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1951 he received a scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood in Lenox...electronically produced tones but is a reading of the opening section of the "Sirens...expressed through his music. Further Reading Richard Steinitz's entry on Berio in...
Thames
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...separating the Chiltern Hills from the Berkshire Downs. The lower valley forms a second...houses and several large towns, including Reading and Windsor. Between Oxford and London...agricultural, with scattered villages; Reading is the only industrial town there. The...

Dictionary entries related to "Reading, Berkshire"

Reading
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Reading County town of Berkshire, situated where the river Kennet joins the Thames. A small borough by 1086, it grew partly thanks to Henry I's foundation...
Winslet, Kate
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers WINSLET, Kate Nationality: British. Born: Reading, Berkshire, England, 5 October 1975; father Roger Winslet...Creatures. Winslet grew up in a theatrical family in Reading, a town west of London, and wanted to be an actor...
Il Conformista
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...in Bertolucci's The Conformist," in Film Criticism (Edinboro, Pennsylvania), Spring 1980. Italianist (Reading, Berkshire), nos. 2–3, 1982–83. Storaro, Vittorio, "La memoria dell'immagine," in Griffithiana...
I Vitelloni
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Fellini's I Vitelloni," in Literature/Film Quarterly (Salisbury, Maryland), no. 2, 1980. Italianist (Reading, Berkshire), no. 1, 1981. Martin, Marcel, "Federico Fellini," in Revue du Cinéma (Paris), January 1984...
Berkshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Berkshire is an area south of the upper...gaining reputations for cloth. Reading's place on the river gave...until the great expansion of Reading itself—9,000...1830s, and the Taunton to Reading line, through Hungerford...
Englefield, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Englefield, battle of, 871. The battle at Englefield, near Reading, in early 871 marks the opening of the bitter struggle between...Saxons and the Danes. Æthelwulf, the ealdorman of Berkshire, was killed in the failure of the West Saxons, commanded...
Ashdown, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Ashdown, battle of, 871. In 871 a Danish army camped at Reading and began raiding the surrounding countryside. Æthelred...Wessex, and his brother Alfred gave battle at Ashdown on the Berkshire downs about 8 January 871. The struggle raged round a stunted...
Clausen, Sir George
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Masters. From 1881 (after his marriage) he lived mainly in Berkshire and then Essex, using his surroundings as material for many...some large decorative commissions, including a mural on The Reading of Wycliffe's Bible in English for St Stephen's Hall...

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Property Hot Spot: Reading, Berkshire A past with a future This old market town on the Thames has blossomed into a shopping, business and transport hub, with two-way commuters.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/11/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...so high people commute into Reading to work, even from London...appealing area encompasses Reading University and the Royal Berkshire Hospital. "They are within...range of properties in urban Reading and in the surrounding villages...
Government consents to combined heat & power station at Reading, Berkshire.
M2 Presswire; 10/4/2000; 573 words ; ...combined heat & power station at Reading, Berkshire (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...combined heat and power station at Reading, Berkshire. The proposed station...Scottish Courage Berkshire Brewery at Reading. The decision to give clearance...
Tight fit. (food retailing in Reading, Berkshire, England) (includes related article on The Oracle, shopping and leisure facility)(Retail Spotlight)(Industry Overview)
Magazine article from: Grocer; 12/13/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...proprietors of the Londis store on Reading's Oxford Road, for instance...They will not be thanking Reading's planners for allowing...have been transferred from Reading's Battle Hospital to the Royal Berkshire Hospital on London Road in...
European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts based in Reading-Berkshire, England. (picks Empress Software Inc.'s relational database management system and 4GL for data handling) (Global Software Marketing)
Newspaper article from: Software Industry Report; 6/7/1993; 573 words ; The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts based in Reading-Berkshire, England, has selected Empress Software Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., to provide Version 6.2 of its relational database management...
Thames Water Company Business Centre, Clearwater Court, Reading, Berkshire
Magazine article from: Concrete; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...June 2001, Clearwater Court is the company business centre for Thames Water on the south bank of the River Thames, next to Reading Bridge, on the site of the company's former offices. The five-storey building, containing 82,000 square feet of office...
LOUISE SETARA ; CREDO ++ THE SINGER WAS DISCOVERED FIVE YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS 14. HER MOTHER IS OF GYPSY DESCENT. LOUISE GREW UP IN READING, BERKSHIRE
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/26/2006; ; 544 words ; I believe in real singers - like Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Celine Dion. When I hear them I can feel them, I believe them. Singing comes from your veins and your blood and your emotions and your background, not just your voice. Singing is who you are. I believe that being a
Football: Reading have put the berks into Berkshire.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 2/21/2007; 700+ words ; Byline: OLIVER HOLT SO READING'S season is a fairy tale...t see any fairy story at Reading. I don't see romance, either...outstanding contribution to Berkshire life. No doubt it was absolutely...couldn't call to mind a famous Reading player. Come to think of it...
Football: Away the ads! SATURDAY SPECIAL: A look back at previous encounters as Villa and Blues prepare for their travels ASTON Villa's visit to Reading on February 10 will take them to Berkshire on league business for only the third time.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 7/29/2006; 700+ words ; ...travels ASTON Villa's visit to Reading on February 10 will take them to Berkshire on league business for only the third time. Reading have climbed the divisions to...sitting third in the table, came Reading. When Villa visit Reading this...
READING BETWEEN THE LINES; SPECIAL REPORT As the credit crunch continues to thwart any long-term redevelopment plans at Reading, Jim Cremin investigates what lies ahead for the Berkshire track now the lease at its existing base has expired.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/4/2008; 700+ words ; ...definitely doomed in its existing location is Reading. Although it might be argued that the...midweek meetings. This applies everywhere. Reading, whose lease has expired, and on which...of an additional meeting at Swindon for Reading dogs, but will anything ever happen here...
That's for the fans - Bristol City chief Johnson ; Gary Johnson dedicated Bristol City's stunning victory over Reading to the thousands of fans who made the journey to Berkshire.
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK); 2/23/2009; 551 words ; ...s stunning victory over Reading to the thousands of fans who made the journey to Berkshire. A travelling army of more...result for us against a Reading side which has just come...after watching them put Reading's Premier League stars...