Category: Grants – Access to archives

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Wellow school log books to be digitised

Wellow school was built on land given by Florence Nightingale’s father William who lived at Embley Park. Florence was a regular visitor to the school and appears in the school...

receipts amnd bills 1960's

Update to cataloguing project Basingstoke has history too!

Report on Hampshire Archives Trust cataloguing project ‘Basingstoke Has History’ A Hampshire Archives Trust grant-funded project ‘Basingstoke has history’ has recently been completed. The project aimed to catalogue some previously...

setting up People's Park exhibition at Hamsphire Record Office

The People’s Parks of Hampshire

Hampshire Gardens Trust have recently completed a long-running project to research and document the history and present state of urban parks in Hampshire’s towns and cities. They have designed this...

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Update on Unlocking Hampshire’s Musical Heritage

This project has digitised eight substantial music manuscripts from Hampshire Record Office and made them publicly available on archive.org. Detailed cataloguing of the manuscripts has identified around 630 compositions within...

The intended front cover of The Four Worthys; pictures from the archive

A book of historic pictures for the Four Worthy villages

Worthy Local History Group (WLHG) has been awarded a HAT grant of £2310 to publish a book drawing extensively from its photographic collection. Book is now out 9 October 2023...

one of the WI scrapbook covers

Cataloguing the Womens’ Institute records held at Hampshire Record Office

The project catalogued the unlisted records of closed or superseded Hampshire Women’s Institutes (HRO collection reference 96M96). The records are contained in some 63 HRO standard boxes and 18 volume...

Winchester Studies volumes containing a record of excavations. Image credit WEC

Grant to digitise Winchester Studies volumes

HAT has supported many projects which make materials readily available to a wider audience and continues this commitment by awarding a grant of £4200 towards a larger project to digitise...

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Local History Lives! And moves into the digital world

Hampshire Archives Trust has recently awarded a grant to Milford– on– Sea Historical Record Society to digitise the mass of material they have gathered over their own 100 years as...

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Grant to Hampshire Record Office for Cataloguing New Forest Archives

Hampshire Record Office is working hard and imaginatively to address cataloguing backlogs. You’ll remember HAT awarded funding to catalogue all the Women’s Institute material HRO held, which was completed last...