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Members attending during the rescue
Stories from the Archives
JamieO

They Always Smelt of Bananas

The story of Lymington parish records In 1975 a nightmare scenario for archivists and local historians was played out in Lymington. Many years before that

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maps of baisingstoke
Stories from the Archives
JamieO

Maps of Basingstoke

Jane Harris, Senior Archivist, Customer Services, of the Hampshire Record Office searches the archives and introduces some of the collection of historic maps of Basingstoke.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3vNcl7rYY

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The Wellow Album of drawings from the 1840s
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JamieO

The Wellow Album

The album was secured for the Hampshire Record Office with support from HAT. It contains drawings of East and West Wellow, c1846. The album of

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16th century documents
Stories from the Archives
JamieO

The Tudor Revels Palaeography Group

The Tudor Revels Palaeography group are a dozen volunteers who transcribe sixteenth-century documents held in the Southampton Record Office. Their transcriptions assist people not used to

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