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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HAT has awarded £500 towards a tracking system to mount travelling exhibitions in the new heritage centre, a small contribution to this huge project East Boldre’s Chapel Heritage Interpretation and...
One emergency grant of £199 was agreed for the successful purchase at auction by Hampshire Record Office of an album of photographs relating to the First World War Red Cross...
A project ‘Unlocking Hampshire’s Musical Heritage’ submitted by Royal Holloway University of London music department, with support from the Hampshire Record Office has been awarded £4399. This exciting project will...
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...
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....
The project will create digital copies of Hampshire Cultural Trust’s 19th and 20th century acquisition registers, which list objects given to Winchester and other museums in the county. HAT has...
We are always happy to come to talk to local history societies and groups about the work of the Hampshire Archives Trust. We can explain what the Trust does and...
Bevois Mount History is a group of residents who have been researching the history of their area for the past ten years. HAT has awarded £340 towards the production of...
This ambitious project seeks to create a digital Gosport Museum of the Sea. It has as its aims: -Creating a digital archive of the many non-military connections that Gosport has...
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...
The National Motor Museum Trust (NMMT) at Beaulieu hosts the UK’s foremost collection relating to the history of the leisure travel movement, the Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) Collection, under...
HAT awarded £7500 to Hampshire Record Office for their project to catalogue Basingstoke archives so they can be made available for research. This project complements the VCH work to publish...
In July 2022 awarded Fordingbridge Historical Society £500 to support its publication of ‘A place of last resort; the history of the Fordingbridge Workhouse’. The book looks at the workhouse’s...
Milford-on-Sea Historical Record Society has opened the doors to its Research Library by placing 150 articles on-line. Milford-on-Sea Historical Record Society [MOSHRS] has a groundbreaking project called “Local History Lives!”...
New pop up exhibition ‘Time of Change’ by Bishops Waltham Area Oral History Group One of the first exhibition visitors was Bill Dowling, better known in the 1960s as part...
One of HAT’s grant funded projects has finally been completed despite the obstacles the last couple of years has thrown up due to the pandemic. The Micheldever Station community celebration...
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...
£1680 has been awarded towards a commemorative programme on the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901). Charlotte Yonge was a significant figure in Victorian life and letters...
Fordingbridge Historical Society was awarded £500 to support its publication of ‘A place of last resort; the history of the Fordingbridge Workhouse’. The book will look at the workhouse’s role...
HAT has awarded £500 towards the project ‘Conservation and Heritage in Gosport. A joint illustrated book publication project between The History Press of Cheltenham and The Gosport Society’The forthcoming book...
Grant awarded to New Forest Heritage Trust (NFHT) for their project ‘For the common good: conserving the Crosthwaite Eyre collection ‘The HAT Board of Trustees awarded the full amount of...
On 8 December HAT was contacted by Hampshire Archives who had just been notified an important document was up for auction that day- and asked if HAT could help with...
Two medieval documents for property in Lockerley bought for Hampshire In April 2019 Hampshire Archives Trust provided the funds for Hampshire Archives to purchase in an online auction two medieval...
Hampshire’s Natural History Heritage That’s what a new project grant-aided by HAT hopes to show us. At its grants meeting in Jan 2022 HAT agreed to fund cataloguing at Hampshire...
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...
