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Keeping Bigg-Wither archive in Hampshire

Papers came up for sale at auction November 2025 relating to the Bigg-Wither family of Manydown, Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, containing estate, official and family material dating mainly from...

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LAUNCH OF 2025-2026 HAMPSHIRE HISTORY COMPETITION FOR SCHOOLS AND SIXTH FORMS

Do you love History? Do you want to become a good historian? Do you want to find out more about archives? Do you want to win a prize? Hampshire Archives...

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Farnborough Research in the Cold War

This project to digitise and restore colour & monochrome film negatives (glass & wet negative) of British aviation research & development at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough in the...

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Airfield to Archive: Farnborough

HAT has awarded a £4000 grant to the The National Aerospace Library (NAL) with Farnborough Sixth Form College for a digitisation, research and training project. NAL holds programmes from the...

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The Newnham Oral and Written History Project is all about ‘celebrating the past and building the future’ as it aims to use local heritage and history as a vehicle to...

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Southampton Archives Cataloguing project

Southampton Archives has a wealth of material deposited by community groups and individual community leaders, who have worked for change on a variety of local, national or international issues. Archives...

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Grant for the Watercress Line through time

This project is to create an engaging, educational, and child-friendly illustrated timeline of the Mid Hants Railway affectionately known as the Watercress Line. HAT is contributing £500 to the project...

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Grayshott Wartime Memories

This is a history of Grayshott during WW2, with a collection of contemporary and current villagers’ memories and stories, and based on Grayshott Heritage archive material, eye-witness accounts, interviews and...

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WINNERS of the 2025 Hampshire History Competition for schools announced

The winners of this year’s History competition for schools have been announced. The winner of the Years 7-9 Group prize is Moyles Court. The winner of the Years 7-9 Individual...