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...
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 VIII’s warship offer a rare...
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 and it can be seen...
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 Record Office, home of the...
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 the idea of Southampton being...
Like every other Shakespeare scholar, I have dreamed of finding a new piece of evidence to add to our frustratingly sketchy portrait of the Bard. Late on a summer...
