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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...

Smugglers at work – detail by George Morland (1763-1804)

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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Grant to Hampshire Record Office for Cataloguing New Forest Archives

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...

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Sam Gilroy

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...

Grant to Skate Southampton

Grant to Skate Southampton

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...

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Bishop’s Waltham Oral History

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...

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Four Marks Enclosures

£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 :...