Welcome to Hampshire Archives Trust
The Hampshire Archives Trust (HAT) is a member-led charity that works to support and promote Hampshire’s rich archival heritage.
We deliver this work by giving grants, through education and events, and developing local history networks – preserving memories for the future.
HAT works closely with and supports the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester, the Southampton Archives and the Portsmouth History Centre which between them hold archive collections dating back over 1000 years from across Hampshire.
You can help to save important local archives by applying to us for a grant to fund your project, becoming a HAT member or making a donation.
The Perfect Gift
Want to buy an exciting and thoughtful gift for someone? Why not buy them a Hampshire Archives Trust membership? It’s so easy.
= figures below relate to grants awarded since 2018 to March 2025.
Grants Awarded
Projects Funded
Success Rate
Upcoming Events
Hampshire’s merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765
2026Sep16 2026Sep16 Event description: This webinar explores how merchant shipping and maritime communities developed along the Hampshire coast between c.1588 and c.1765, drawing on new findings from a major AHRC-funded project on early modern English seaborne trade. By shifting the focus from national patterns to the distinctive maritime world of Hampshire, the session highlights the growth of […]
Hampshire Archives Trust Annual General Meeting
2026Oct10 2026Oct10 The AGM for 2026 will be held at the The Rifleman’s Museum (known formerly as the Royal Green Jackets), Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester SO23 8TS on Saturday 10 October 2-4.30pm More details will follow
Our News
HAT has awarded £100 for a project based at Swelling Hill Pond, situated between Ropley and Four Marks, a beautiful hill-top pond surrounded by idyllic nature and fed by an...
- Grants, Grants - Community Commemorative Events, Grants - Preservation, News
Winchester Studies 5: The Brooks and other sites of medieval Winchester. Wessex Excavation Committee has been awarded £5000 by HAT towards the cost of producing this volume. Winchester Excavations Committee’s...
- Grants, Grants - Publications, News
Milford on Sea Historical Record Society has been awarded a HAT grant of £500 towards the publication ‘All the Queen’s Men’ The society produced a video in June 2026 now...
- Grants, Grants - Publications, News
The Watercress Line project HAT helped fund has now created the lively and entertaining video about the history of the railway. It is hosted on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNC-i0EvAk8&list=RDQNC-i0EvAk8&start_radio=1
...- News
This project by the Battle of Southsea Society will preserve, digitise, transcribe, interpret and secure the future of the Batchelor family archive, donated via the History in Portsmouth website.The project...
- Grants, Grants - Access to archives, Grants - Community Commemorative Events, Grants - Exhibitions, Grants - Preservation, Local History Societies & Associated Groups
Waterside Heritage secured a grant from HAT for £389 to purchase a slide scanner to digitise and catalogue over 15,000 mounted slides. 35mm slides, especially colour ones, deteriorate with time...
- Grants, Grants - Preservation, Grants - Promoting Archives, News
Gift
Make a Financial Gift
By making a financial gift to the HAT you are directly funding the preservation of valuable local history archives for future generations. The HAT awards grants to local history projects which are judged to be of particular historical value in Hampshire. Whether you’d like to make a one-off donation, leave a legacy in your will or make a regular donation, it is very straight-forward.
Stories from the Archives
- Podcast
In September 1993 Patrick Wilde’s play ‘What’s Wrong with Angry?’ opened at the LOST Theatre, a small fringe theatre in Fulham. Thanks to a sold-out final week, it returned in...
- Blog
Recently HAT announced a visit for members to the Gregg School, formerly Townhill Park House, which highlighted that it had been the home of Lord Swaythling in the early 20th...
- Blog
The Watercress Line, Hampshire’s Heritage railway was recently successful in gaining funding from Hampshire Archives Trust, Alresford Historical and Literary Society and New Alresford Town Trust to enhance its family...
- Blog
Someone in the past can change your life. They might influence what you think about today or may set you on an adventure. Their words, immortalised in print, tug at...
- Blog
- Podcast
