Category: Stories from the Archives

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

Clever detective work is putting flesh on the way Hampshire was governed before the arrival of the Normans. During the last hundred years many small

Recent decisions to cancel a celebration in Hampshire of the bicentenary of Rural Rides by William Cobbett on grounds of historic antisemitism and racism have

Sherfield English straddles what had been the mid 19th century turnpike road, and consists of scattered dwellings with two clusters on the main road, one