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Archive photo: Old Hyde House undergoing restoration 1980’s
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Old Hyde House

Getting it Right – The Value of Historical Research ADAM Architecture is a leading practice specialising in Classical and Traditional architecture. The practice has been

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Titanic in Southampton
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The Titanic crew

By Peter Finn January 2019 I was researching local history in the Southampton Archives in the Civic Centre when a piece of family history unrelated

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Members attending during the rescue
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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
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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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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
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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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