Category: Stories from the Archives

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

Stoney Cross today consists of a handful of dwellings, a filling station, a Travel Lodge hotel, and a Little Chef restaurant; all alongside the modern

It’s only when you examine an area’s historic houses carefully that you realise that those charged with deciding which should be given statutory protection don’t

Historians owe much to a poet, a workaholic and a “placeman UNTIL the beginning of the nineteenth century the Rickman family of Hampshire lived in