The records of Hampshire and beyond have been kept, organised, catalogued and made available by a legion of archivists. This is the first a series on the major holdings in...
The indexes at the back of the volumes of Himsworth are very extensive: 89 pages in Vol.I and 394 pages in Volume III (covering vols II and III). A note...
Winchester College Muniments: A Descriptive List, Vols II and III, compiled by Sheila Himsworth, Chichester, 1986, cover the estates of the college, which numbered about 60 (29 of which were...
A key finding aid for the archives of Winchester College is Sheila Himsworth’s, meticulously indexed Winchester College Muniments, published in 3 volumes. Winchester College Muniments: A Descriptive List, Vol. I,...
A key finding aid for the archives of Winchester College is Sheila Himsworth’s meticulously indexed Winchester College Muniments, published in 3 volumes (Chichester, 1976-1984). The work is the culmination of...
On 22 September 2020 we held another online talk by HAT Trustee Dr Cheryl Butler, the talk is intriguingly titled Ascupart’s Children – Black History in the greater Southampton region...
Talk about the HAT grant-aided project (2020 AGM) Hear about the background to the project and the discoveries made in this talk to the Hampshire Archives Trust AGM 2020. Bill...
Southampton’s people and their goods 1250-1500 by Professor Chris Woolgar 11 May 2021.
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This talk was organised by HAT as part of series of events held in May throughout the UK to celebrate local and community history month, and was an online talk...
Hampshire may not have slag heaps, coal-mines and blast furnaces but it still has a substantial industrial heritage. Iron ore was smelted at Sowley at Beaulieu Manor from about 1600...
Most cultures acquire myths of various kinds. They often demonstrate a commonly held belief or some statement of acceptable behaviour. As sources for history, they are unreliable, though they are...
On Sunday 14 October 1900 ‘large congregations’ attended Basingstoke’s Congregational Church to mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of their premises in London Street. This took...
The workhouse records held at county record offices and the TNA are a goldmine of information. Many of them deal with administration. However, there are a number of records that...
In the 1950s, Portsmouth was one of those few corporations whose archives were still virtually unknown to historians, although a local interest was already at work. One of the most...
2017 was the bi-centenary of the death of Jane Austen and a group of heritage organisations in Southampton decided to re-assess the time that she spent in Southampton. It might...
Finally, we knew they did come from the abbey cloisters! The capitals in St Bartholomew’s church in Hyde, on the outskirts of Winchester, have been described as some of the...
How best to support the poor and needy is at the heart all political thought in a civilised society. For local and family historians the process generates sources which give...
Most people at some time ask why the place they live in has acquired its name. Almost a century ago the English Place-Name Society set about publishing a series of...
By the north side of the tower of Holy Trinity Church, Wonston, near Winchester, lies the red marble tombstone of the Rev. Alexander Robert Charles Dallas, who died on 12...
Most classics have a barrier to surmount before the ‘go’ button is reached. Jane Austen, arguably Hampshire’s lead brand, is not to everyone’s taste. But if you can navigate the...
The Buriton Village Association has been able to demonstrate how the village has grown between c.1100 and the present, by digitally overlaying information from maps and other sources. The aim...
1920 was a ‘red letter’ year for the Wesleyan Methodists of Basingstoke since it marked the golden jubilee of a permanent presence for their branch of Methodism in the town....
Archives can often yield the most elusive information about subjects that are generally little documented. So it was that I was looking for some material to bolster an article on...
Finding the truth about my father being torpedoed twice during the war …. explained his annual trips to London, and why he was not in good shape as we met...
There is much to be discovered from huge collections of easily accessible moving images and sound recordings. One of the great challenges of telling modern history is that the nature...
If a pioneer from Church Crookham had succeeded, Hampshire fields might have fewer solar panels and more tobacco plants. For obvious reasons, smoking is today a minority activity, but a...
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 chalk downland near Winchester. In...
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 lot of history books –...
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 countries have experienced the withdrawal...
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 raised questions about the practice...