Phoebe Cusden News Today

The Reading mayor has been rubbing shoulders with royalty in Germany to watch the Invictus Games, founded by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex.

More than £2000 of council money was spent for a Reading councillors foreign trip, it has been revealed.

To honour International Women’s Day today (March 8), we have listed 16 inspirational women associated with Berkshire that you need to know more…

Reading will be celebrating 75 years of friendship between Dusseldorf and Reading following the ending of the second world war.

BYGONES: River ambulance set up for festival in 1970s A RIVER ambulance was set to patrol the Thames in 1971, just in time to keep visitors to Reading’s first ever pop festival. Two boats, built and manned by members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, had been under construction for the last few months. The new craft would undertake river trials in the coming weeks and would be fully operational after crews had completed their training.   The Duke of Edinburgh visited Bearwood Co...

‘Photograph of Edith Morley in her College gowns’, c.1893. Pic by University of Reading Professor Edith Julia Morley MBE was a professor of English Language at the University of Reading, and is credited with being the first female professor in Britain. Aside from her own career successes, she was also an active supporter of the a number of Suffragette campaigns, and a member of the British socialist organisation The Fabian Society. In 1950 she was made a Member of the Order of the Br...

The blue plaques The four blue plaques are dedicated to Dominic Barbieri, Phoebe Cusden, Henry Addington and Thomas Huntley. Mr Barbieri was an Italian theologian who was prominent in spreading Catholicism in England and died in Reading. His plaque is on a modern block of flats on Caversham Road before the railway bridge. Ms Cusden was an educationalist, peace campaigner, socialist, feminist and Reading councillor, who was once mayor of Reading and founded the Reading Dusseldorf Associa...