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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...

Auhor and professional genealogist Emma Jolly

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...

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Hampshire volume ‘saved’ and kept in Hampshire

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...

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Medieval Lockerley Deeds

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...

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What can archives tell us about Hampshire’s natural history heritage?

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...

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Local History Lives! And moves into the digital world

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...