Category: Stories from the Archives

In this episode, Daniella was joined by Dr Clifford Williams, a historian researching the history of the early gay and lesbian youth groups in England, to discuss LGBT histories in Hampshire. Clifford discusses his books A History of Women policing Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1915-2016 (HCHS) (2016) and Courage to Be (The Book Guild Ltd) (2021), as well as LGBT figures in Hampshire and the materials available to research these stories.

This episode explores the history of Elizabethan Hampshire, during which Daniella was joined by Josh Harper, who is has a current role with the Visitor Experience, Collections, and Curatorial teams at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. During this episode, they discussed what was happening during Elizabeth I’s reign on a national and local scale, as well as what materials Josh used to study this period of history.

In this latest episode, Daniella had the opportunity to speak with Zoë Viney-Burgess, a doctoral candidate at the University of Southampton and Curator of Film at Wessex Film & Sound Archive (WFSA) in Winchester, about her research into women amateur filmmakers in Hampshire.

In this latest episode, Daniella had the opportunity to speak with Zoë Viney-Burgess, a doctoral candidate at the University of Southampton and Curator of Film at Wessex Film & Sound Archive (WFSA) in Winchester, about her research into women amateur filmmakers in Hampshire.

This latest episode focuses on early medieval Hampshire, during which Daniella speaks to Dr Rob Gallagher, an historian of early medieval Britain.