In 2026 the University of Reading celebrates the 100th anniversary of the granting of its charter, the only UK university to be created between World War I and II. The talk outlines the university’s history from its origins in Reading town centre in the late 1800s and its links with Oxford University, the move to the London road site near the Royal Berks Hospital, concluding with the move to the Whiteknights campus and a look into the future.