The Petersfield Museum is not just a museum for the town, but for a number of surrounding villages that have contributed to life in the locality over centuries. It has...
The townscape of Hampshire owes itself to three main factors – trade, which made Southampton; defence, which made Portsmouth, as well as Aldershot and Farnborough; and administration and justice, which...
The Hampshire Medieval Graffiti Project is organised by Historic Buildings section of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeology Society. It is one of a number of county surveys, all run...
It goes without saying that the past is imperfectly recorded. With any particular project, no matter how many archives are explored, and newspapers and other sources consulted, there are likely...
The Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS) has its roots in an Open University course on family and community history and was founded in 1980. It has a strong...
In 1722 Richard Churcher made provision for a school to be established in Petersfield, to educate 12 boys from the age of 9-14 in maths, arithmetic, writing and navigation. The...
Bedales School was founded by John Haden Badley in 1893 as a humane alternative to the authoritarian regimes typical of late-Victorian Public Schools. It name comes from the first house...
Many archivists, archive conservators and records managers in the United Kingdom and Ireland belong to the Archives and Records Association. It mainly caters for professionals, but it has a number...
