Upcoming
Events
HAT is delighted to begin to hold face-to-face events again – information on individual events is to be found below. These events will also feature on the calendar. Group members of HAT can list their events on the calendar too, if you have any difficulty doing so then contact HAT’s secretary on secretary@hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk
We have added a section for Recorded Talks below so that you can enjoy some of our previous talks captured on video. Look too at our past events if you’d like to read more about any particular events or just to see what HAT has been doing. The online talks programme proved very popular during lockdown and will continue – details will be shown here when confirmed.
Upcoming Events
New Forest – Crosthwaite Eyre Collection and Verderer’s Court
2025May07 Date: 7th May Cost: Many people have experienced the beauty of the New Forest in Hampshire, a unique and cherished location. We owe much of our ability to enjoy this natural environment to individuals like George Briscoe Eyre. He and others played a crucial role, in opposing the efforts of the Office of Woods (the […]
The Gregg School
2025May28 In the early 20th century, Townhill Park, a 23-acre estate in Southampton, was home to the Jewish Montagu Samuel family, who became Lord Swaythling. Samuel Montagu founded the foreign exchange and banking firm Samuel Montagu and Co in 1853, which played a significant role in establishing London as the clearing house for the international money […]
Houghton Lodge
2025Jun11 Houghton Lodge, a Grade II listed building, is one of the finest and earliest surviving example of a Cottage Ornée (French for decorated cottage). Cottage Ornée often features well shaped thatch roofs with ornate timberwork, ‘picturesque’ Gothic architecture that flourished for about 25 years from 1790. Houghton was thought to be designed in 1790 by […]
Exhibition about project Andover: An overspill story
2025Jul02 HAT has part funded this exhibition to round off the project and celebrate the new accessions that Wessex Film and Sound Archives at HRO have collected, an exhibition will be on display in Andover Museum from Friday 14 March to Sunday 27 April 2025. Another set of exhibition panels was printed for Hampshire Record Office. […]
The Royal Hollaway Founder’s Building
2025Jul03 The Founder’s Building at Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), is a stunning example of French Renaissance architecture, based on the Chateau de Chambord in France. Opened by Queen Victoria in 1886, this historic building features the Picture Gallery, which houses over 70 pieces of Victorian-era art donated by Thomas Holloway. It also includes […]
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery plus historical Walk Around the Town
2025Jul16 This is an opportunity to view the results of a £10,000 grant that the Hampshire Archive Trust provided to Petersfield Museum towards the project to preserve the Don Eades archive of 107,000 photographic negatives. Ryan Watts from the Museum is also offering to provide us with a historicalwalking tour around Petersfield, town that started as […]
reCORDED TALKS
Hampshire Archives Trust Annual General Meeting 2023
The AGM will be held on Saturday 28 October 2023, between 2pm and 4.30pm, in the Kincaid Room at the Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsula
Hampshire Archives Trust Annual General Meeting to be held 22 October 2022
The Annual General Meeting of the Hampshire Archives Trust will be held at Hampshire Record Office on 22nd October 2022 at 2.00pm A full set
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