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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 –

When a local resident casually stated that “Winchester has always been a welcoming place of refuge”, as a historian, this immediately aroused my suspicion. The

The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth is world famous for its unrivalled maritime archaeology collection. The thousands of objects recovered from the wreck of Henry

The town of Southampton is not associated with slavery in the same way as ports, such as Bristol and Liverpool, but look below the surface