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Welcoming Prince Henry to Winchester in 1603 Prince Henry, the  nine-year-old son of King James I and Anna of Denmark, joined his mother at Winchester

While much of the research conducted in archives focuses on documents, maps, photographs, and audio/visual recordings, it is important to recognise the significant value that

In the Muniment Tower, students viewing a charter issued by Alice de Rumilly in around 1150, one of the oldest in Magdalen’s collection A visit

Content notice: this post makes reference to sexual violence in the middle ages.   Who is Constance Mauduit? This is a question I first asked

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we take a look at the life and works of a brilliant but neglected women writer from Hampshire, the Victorian

Family history is easily one of the most common reasons for going to a county archive and that’s no surprise with the typical records that

Hampshire has a rich military history spanning across the centuries and among all three elements that make up the modern-day British Armed Forces. In this

On 6 May 1623, King James I (& VI) granted a wine licence to John James of Southampton. The licence allowed John James to collect

27 June 1924 was a remarkably busy date in the diary of the thirty-year-old Prince of Wales. Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David –