Category: Stories from the Archives

Most classics have a barrier to surmount before the ‘go’ button is reached. Jane Austen, arguably Hampshire’s lead brand, is not to everyone’s taste. But

The Buriton Village Association has been able to demonstrate how the village has grown between c.1100 and the present, by digitally overlaying information from maps

1920 was a ‘red letter’ year for the Wesleyan Methodists of Basingstoke since it marked the golden jubilee of a permanent presence for their branch

Archives can often yield the most elusive information about subjects that are generally little documented.  So it was that I was looking for some material

Finding the truth about my father being torpedoed twice during the war …. explained his annual trips to London, and why he was not in

There is much to be discovered from huge collections of easily accessible moving images and sound recordings. One of the great challenges of telling modern

If a pioneer from Church Crookham had succeeded, Hampshire fields might have fewer solar panels and more tobacco plants. For obvious reasons, smoking is today

Wartime ‘Sandhurst’ on the downs Now completely gone, a huge hutted camp once hastened ordinary men towards Army commissions during WWI on an expanse of

The things that make life bearable risk being the ‘Cinderella’ of conservation and record keeping, but are well worth keeping. You can read an awful