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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

If proof was ever needed of the enduring entanglement of the people of Hampshire with the global Hispanic world, a brief visit to the Hampshire

The earldom of Southampton lasted for just over a hundred years, from its first creation in 1537 until the line died out in 1667, However