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Haslar Gate and bastion number 1. Image credit the Gosport Society

Grant to the Gosport Society

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...

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Grant to conserve Crosthwaite Eyre collection

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...

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‘How To Use Archives’ guides for students

Here are some new, free, easy-to-use guides for both students and teachers with helpful advice on how to use archives in your research. These guides will help you if you...

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HAT Blog Guidelines

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash   If you have a Hampshire local history story or a favourite archive, museum, or library item or collection you would like to share...

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School history competition launching in September

The Hampshire Archives Trust is to launch a new History competition for secondary and sixth form students in Hampshire at the start of the new academic year in September. Secondary...

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A Master Class in Census Searching

FAMILY historians everywhere are working their way through the 1921 census, which FindMyPast has just put online. It will help chart the huge changes that followed the First World War....

Bishopstoke Mill, about 1910

Bishopstoke Village History Website – a Model for Others

Two friends discovered a common interest in Bishopstoke and went on to create one of the best local history websites, with more to follow, writes Barry Shurlock… Early directories of...

Lady Lisle passed her last night in the Eclipse, before being beheaded “in the roadway”

Hampshire’s “Horrible History”

OMICRON may be remembered as something that was truly ‘horrible’, but it will probably be nothing compared to events in the past. These have probably given more entertainment to later...

Augustus Paulet, 15th Marquess of Winchester, who died in the Boer War

The Dynasty of “Lord Winchester”

QUIZMASTERS looking for questions might consider these: In the ranking of nobility, what exactly is a marquis? Is it different from a marquess and marchioness? And has Hampshire ever had...