Thanks to a generous grant by the Hampshire Archive Trust, we have been able to publish a lavishly illustrated book which makes available to readers the result of our research...
This grant for a major preservation project – Lasting Impression – is for a collection held by Petersfield Museum and is the largest HAT has ever funded. This project is...
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...
2020 is the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower for America, this exhibition concentrates on the preparations to sail. See Southampton is a collective of freelance historic tour...
Lack of money should be no barrier to researching the past THERE are probably more unfinished books on local and family history than any other subject. Add to these the...
Traditional Houses of the Worthy Village The project encourages a wider understanding of traditional buildings, and of the evolution in the internal planning of rural houses Over a three...
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...
Traditional Houses of the Worthy Villages The project encourages a wider understanding of traditional buildings, and of the evolution in the internal planning of rural houses Over a three year...
New Award Supporting the Digitisation of Historic Police Personnel Records Hampshire Constabulary History Society (HCHS) was formed in 1986 and its aim is to foster interest in the Force and...
The Dever Society are to hold a range of activities to celebrate the creation of the community at Micheldever Station resulting from the arrival of the London to Southampton Railway...
East Meon was chosen in 1986 as Hampshire’s Domesday Village because it retains the character of the medieval headquarters of the Bishop of Winchester’s largest estate in the county. Its...
The book, Humphry Repton at Herriard Park, published with support from a grant from the Hampshire Archives Trust is a joy for anyone with an interest in gardens. Sifting through...
Digitisation of the old Gaol plans. The most relevant plans, prints and documents from the SCC archive that relate to the period in GHT’s history when it was used a...
The collection has been reviewed and every page photographed. Five albums have been scanned totalling 1000 images. It is intended when scanning has been completed to promote the collection small...
This project has been delayed firstly by the need to secure the funding needed for the refurbish and to get a lease for the property from South Western Railway. Both...
Is this the most successful Wessex Film and Sound Archives project to date? The project held its final screening at Hampshire Record Office on 5 December. In project lead Zoe...
Rare films never before publicly screened will be shown between September and December (2019) by the Wessex Film and Sound Archive, courtesy of a grant of £1,500. The films –...
Conservation and New Presentation of 1571 Bargain and Sale deed featuring King John’s House The project comes in two parts: 1. Conservation and remounting of deed, taking advantage of work...
In January 2020, in its second round of grants awards for 2019-2020, HAT has decided to grant £9290 for six projects covering a range of interesting projects. Three main grants...
Hyde900 marked the completion of the project with a presentation at Hyde900’s King Alfred Weekend. Hyde900 was granted just under £1200 for preservation and publication of a unique set of...
The Trust has awarded £3000 towards the cost of the publication – which is informed by research on the Jervoise family archives held at Hampshire Record Office. 2018 is the...
HAT recently made a grant of £8,000 to the new Victoria County History (VCH), which, under the guidance of Dr John Hare and Dr Jean Morrin, has the long-term objective...
HAT recently made a grant of £8,000 to the new Victoria County History (VCH), which, under the guidance of Dr John Hare and Dr Jean Morrin, has the long-term objective...
The project included a major exhibition held at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in Lymington between 4 June and 31 August 2019. Cornwallis, a resident of Milford-on-Sea was the...
The Trust has awarded £2600 which completes the amount (£23,600) the Society needed to raise to deliver the exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Admiral Sir William...
HAT granted Hyde900 just under £1200 for the preservation and publication of a unique set of photographs associated with Hyde Abbey. A local resident, Barbara Hall, lived in Hyde in...
One of Hampshire Archives Trust’s biggest achievements was the development of a regional archive specifically for film and sound archives. Wessex Film and Sound Archive was set up under the...
In the August 2019 of its six- monthly round of grants HAT has decided to grant more than £19,000 for six projects covering a wide range of interests. A major...
The Trust has made a grant (of £8,272) to East Meon’s History Group so that it can digitise and index its archive and make it available both online and as...
HAT has recently made a grant to the Fleet and Crookham Local History Group. This will enable it to purchase a large collection of local postcards and photographs collected over...
