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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...

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Hampshire Record Office purchase documents of Nowes Charity, Romsey

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,...

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The Archives of Highclere Castle 2020 AGM

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2020 AGM Held on line

This first attempt at holding an AGM online resulted from the restrictions on public gatherings as necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. It proved to be an effective substitute but of...

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Talk about Hampshire Quakers

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How to make a local history film

The last online talk in the spring season 2021 of Hands-On Local History Series was given by TOM YOUNG on Tuesday June 29. He has a first-class honours degree in...

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Searchable online newspapers – a gamechanger for historians

THERE is a well-known saying that ‘journalism is the first rough draft of history’ though who coined the phrase is not entirely clear. In fact, tracking down the author is...

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WFSA Grant Making Movies Project

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...

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Grant to The United Voices of Africa Association (Southampton)

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...

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