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 of wax seals. These small,...
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 to the archives of Magdalen...
Content notice: this post makes reference to sexual violence in the middle ages. Who is Constance Mauduit? This is a question I first asked myself in 2019. Perusing the...
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 best-seller Charlotte Mary Yonge When...
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 are available. However, despite county...
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 blog, Public Engagement Coordinators for...
On 6 May 1623, King James I (& VI) granted a wine licence to John James of Southampton. The licence allowed John James to collect the rents from an inn...
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 – who would become King Edward...
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 narrative of refuge in Britain...
