Category: Grants – Promoting Archives

NAL reading room

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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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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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....

Wherwell (l) and Chilbolton (r)

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...

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...

Pies and Prejudice

Pies And Prejudice

As part of the Heritage Open Day events, 2TimeTheatre are performing a work drawn from archival sources and literary references to food in Jane Austen’s papers and works. It is...

Marriage of Diana Stuart Smith of Hall place to Major George Evans

Grant to Ropley History Network and Archive

This project will repackage the village archive into conservation-grade packaging, it is intended to be phase one of a bigger project to create a digital archive and website. Ropley has...

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Grant to 2TimeTheatre

Lewd Women and Female Felons Hampshire Archives Trust recently made a grant towards the funding of a play inspired by research in the Hampshire Record Office for the ‘crime’ of...