The Town of Reading & its Abbey
by Dr Cecil Slade
[Local Heritage Books 2001]
B5, laminated pictorial card cover, illustrated, index, 162pp.

A professor at Reading University, Dr Slade was a local boy who had made a lifetime study of this subject. He traces, with academic skill, the development of Reading's relationship with the Abbey from its foundation in 1121 to its downfall in 1539 continuing through to 1997 with an Epilogue. Unfortunately he died before the book went to print and the text was read and the foreword written by his colleague, Professor Brian Kemp. [Jun 2002]