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Peartree Church
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Peartree Church

A tiny scrap of paper in a filing cabinet in a church hall has solved a mystery that has long puzzled local people. Behind the

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Pettigrew Andover Union Workhouse
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Family History

A Lucky Strike in the Poor Law Records For a long time I have been researching my family history, doing my own Who Do You Think

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Blake Blue Tit Fuselage
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Blake Blue Tit

In Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border, an aeroplane is being restored that was first built and flown above the Hampshire countryside 90 years ago.

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Hidden History

Sources, which are the bedrock of history, predominantly consist of documents, though film, sound recordings and increasingly digital files are also important. There are, however,

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Avenue 2020
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Avenue 2020

Building works often awake interest in the history of the place in question. The congregation of the St Andrew’s United Reformed Church in The Avenue,

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Raised in Winchester, fulfilled in Oxford, Annie Moberly (Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, Oxford).
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Annie Moberley

Stern expressions, dark clothes, rectories the size of small palaces – these are all clues to what life was like for the middle class in

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Arthuur Helps
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Arthur Helps

Bishops Waltham’s Debt to a Victorian Reformer and Social Entrepreneur In the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Avenue New York,

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Testwood House
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Cheating the Post Office

Letters sent by Royal Mail have always been paid for, but not by the privileged few. From 1652, Members of Parliament could send official letters

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