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HAT VISIT TO THE FAST MUSEUM AND ST MICHAELS ABBEY AT FARNBOROUGH
🤍 2022Jun30 This full day visit promises to be one of our more unusual visits, contrasting a Museum dedicated to aviation history with a visit to an Abbey founded by a heartbroken Empress in memory of her husband and only child. The Fast (Farnborough Air Sciences Trust) Museum has a wonderful collection of artifacts collected and collated […]
HAT VISIT TO WICKHAM
🤍 2022Jul12 Wickham History Society have very kindly agreed to host a day in July to give us the opportunity to learn more about this attractive large village, a designated conservation area, its history and its parish Church of St Nicholas. Many of you will know Wickham with its square, independent shops, cafes, pubs and pretty walks […]

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Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash If you have a Hampshire local history story or a favourite archive, museum, or library item or collection you would like


School history competition launching in September
The Hampshire Archives Trust is to launch a new History competition for secondary and sixth form students in Hampshire at the start of the new


A Master Class in Census Searching
FAMILY historians everywhere are working their way through the 1921 census, which FindMyPast has just put online. It will help chart the huge changes that


Bishopstoke Village History Website – a Model for Others
Two friends discovered a common interest in Bishopstoke and went on to create one of the best local history websites, with more to follow, writes


Hampshire’s “Horrible History”
OMICRON may be remembered as something that was truly ‘horrible’, but it will probably be nothing compared to events in the past. These have probably


The Dynasty of “Lord Winchester”
QUIZMASTERS looking for questions might consider these: In the ranking of nobility, what exactly is a marquis? Is it different from a marquess and marchioness?
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Hampshire Record Keepers – 1. Winchester College
The records of Hampshire and beyond have been kept, organised, catalogued and made available by a legion of archivists. This is the first a series


Himsworth’s Indexes
The indexes at the back of the volumes of Himsworth are very extensive: 89 pages in Vol.I and 394 pages in Volume III (covering vols


Winchester College Estates Himsworth, Vols II and III
Winchester College Muniments: A Descriptive List, Vols II and III, compiled by Sheila Himsworth, Chichester, 1986, cover the estates of the college, which numbered about


Himsworth, Volume I: College
A key finding aid for the archives of Winchester College is Sheila Himsworth’s, meticulously indexed Winchester College Muniments, published in 3 volumes. Winchester College Muniments:


Himsworth’s Winchester College Muniments
A key finding aid for the archives of Winchester College is Sheila Himsworth’s meticulously indexed Winchester College Muniments, published in 3 volumes (Chichester, 1976-1984). The


Ascupart’s Children – Black History
On 22 September 2020 we held another online talk by HAT Trustee Dr Cheryl Butler, the talk is intriguingly titled Ascupart’s Children – Black History