Lecture
The History of Reading Gaol
Speaker: Mark Stevens - County Archivist
Tue, 7 Oct 2025
About the lecture:
The History of Reading Gaol
– from Georgian Times to the First World War
Our lecturer: Mark Stevens – County Archivist
Mark is County Archivist for Berkshire, and works at the Royal Berkshire Archives in Reading.
One of the collections he looks after is the Reading Prison archive.
Mark will use this archive to tell the prison’s story and that of some of its notable inmates.