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Huge Surge in Online Requests for War Records

The coronavirus is providing a golden opportunity for those with an interest in the past to delve into all sorts of archives. Never before have researchers had such a huge...

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Making History: making movies

Making History: making movies 5 minutes of film of your life right now. Submit the film to our archive and become part of history. You may have seen that Hampshire...

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The HAT Calendar Launched!

August 2020 The HAT Calendar is now live and, despite the limitations imposed by the pandemic, lists some events that are expected to go ahead. The HAT Calendar aims to...

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Grant to Petersfield Museum

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...

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...

Southampton Exhibition about the Mayflower

Grant to See Southampton for an Exhibition About the Mayflower

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...

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Funding Boost for Local History

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...

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Grant to Worthys Local History Group

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...

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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...