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...
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...
