Windlesora The Journal of the Windsor Local History Group

Windsor Local History Group was founded in 1976 as Windsor Local History Publications Group. It was started by a small group of WEA students and tutors with the aim of fostering research in the field of local history and publishing the results. The name was changed in 2004.

Our Latest Book

Windsor and Eton Express 1812-1830

The Charles Knight Years

Windsor and Eton Express 1812-1830 was written to celebrate 200 years since the first edition of the newspaper was published.

It tells the story of the founders, Charles Knight and his son, also Charles, and looks at the world, and the town of Windsor through the articles in the newspaper during the period.

Read more about this book

The theme of Windlesora 28 is Anniversaries and the Olympics

Charles Knight Senior

Windsor & Eton Express is 200 years old this year
Titanic 1912
Thames Hospice Care - 25 years of hospice care in Windsor
Windsor & Eton Operatic Society 1961-2011
300 years old –and still going strong - Sargeants the Undertakers
The Coronation Aerial Post – 100 years ago
Robert Barker and the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
Robert Richardson Gardner MP
Windsor Ladies Swimming Club
Charles Dickens 1812 - 1870
The 1908 Olympic Marathon
Edward Robinson VC
Jane, Henry and the Crutchleys
1948 Olympics—the Austerity Games
The Olympic Flame 1948
At Last Windsor has its Museum
Clewer Museum
Book Reviews - Three new books and news of forthcoming publications.

To order Windlesora 28 please visit our Bookshop