Southampton’s people and their goods 1250-1500 by Professor Chris Woolgar 11 May 2021.
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This talk was organised by HAT as part of series of events held in May throughout the UK to celebrate local and community history month, and was an online talk...
Hampshire may not have slag heaps, coal-mines and blast furnaces but it still has a substantial industrial heritage. Iron ore was smelted at Sowley at Beaulieu Manor from about 1600...
Most cultures acquire myths of various kinds. They often demonstrate a commonly held belief or some statement of acceptable behaviour. As sources for history, they are unreliable, though they are...
On Sunday 14 October 1900 ‘large congregations’ attended Basingstoke’s Congregational Church to mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of their premises in London Street. This took...
The workhouse records held at county record offices and the TNA are a goldmine of information. Many of them deal with administration. However, there are a number of records that...
In the 1950s, Portsmouth was one of those few corporations whose archives were still virtually unknown to historians, although a local interest was already at work. One of the most...
2017 was the bi-centenary of the death of Jane Austen and a group of heritage organisations in Southampton decided to re-assess the time that she spent in Southampton. It might...
Finally, we knew they did come from the abbey cloisters! The capitals in St Bartholomew’s church in Hyde, on the outskirts of Winchester, have been described as some of the...