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The project catalogued the unlisted records of closed or superseded Hampshire Women’s Institutes (HRO collection reference 96M96).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...
A grant from Hampshire Archives Trust allowed Hampshire Archives to purchase at auction a small group of records of Nowes Charity, Romsey, including property deeds from 1685 in Middlebridge Street,...
Community Archives: Making History: Making Movies Today soon becomes the past and this exciting project from Wessex Film and Sound Archive looks to collect current amateur films of every day...
You may have joined the online talk Dr Cheryl Butler gave to HAT members on 22 September 2020 intriguingly titled ‘Ascupart’s Children’ – it is still available to view on...
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...
Sam Gilroy has received some £15,000 funding for her project F Wordz from the Arts. Council, but needed further funding to make the project happen. HAT is providing £7249 or...
Skate Southampton needed funding to support the digitisation of the Don Brider photography collection, and HAT awarded £500 to make this happen. The collection dates from the 1980s and looks...
Bishop’s Waltham has been running oral history projects for some time and has built up a lot of knowledge and volunteer enthusiasm and goodwill- see their website to find out...
£3500 was awarded to Ropley History Network Archives to support the publication of a book ‘The Four Marks Enclosures’, which is more graphically described in its working title as :...
Steep Local History Group has been awarded a small grant of £500 for the production and printing of a new local social history booklet on the people, families, and buildings...
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...
The latest news from the Archives and Records Association includes two items of interest to HAT members. Digitisation grants are available for public and private archives and special collections. They...
