Category: Grants – Preservation

The slide scanner set up and running

Waterside Heritage – digitisation

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...

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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

Sadly due to copyright permission problems The National Aerospace Library (NAL) with Farnborough Sixth Form Collegehas have had to withdraw from this project, before it got underway. HAT regrets that...

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Records of Titchfield Abbey

The Titchfield Abbey Records Project continues to transcribe the earliest records for Titchfield – those for Titchfield Abbey which was established in 1232 and disbanded with the Dissolution in 1537....

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Website Archive Catalogue for Wherwell Churchyard Headstones

HAT has awarded £500 in grant aid to Wherwell History Group to support their initiative to display a catalogue and photographs on their website with corresponding memorial descriptions (approx 600...

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Saving a Portsmouth online resource

Its every local historian’s nightmare, you and your group lovingly create a website and then the death of a key member means it starts to become unusable, with links failing...

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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...

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Film history of the HAT Fair

Hat Fair, Winchester, is the UK’s longest running outdoor festival and celebrates its 50 year anniversary this year (2024). In celebration, this project will gather and present archival documents in...

Swanmore Jubilee exhibition

Swanmore is relocating its community archive

Swanmore Parish Council is relocating its community archive from various sites to a designated archive space within the parish council office, and provide access to the material by researchers there....