Southampton Archives are located in the basement of the south block of the Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LY, close to the Southampton Local History and Maritime Library. [Link to 5.4.4.2]....
The world is awash with private archives. They are in solicitors’ offices, company HQs, in people’s houses and attics, and in village halls. Essentially, they are to be found anywhere...
The Itchen Stoke shooting of July 1940 illustrates the measures taken to increase food production during the last war. It also depicts the state of mind of isolated farmers, who...
Steff Palmer of Hampshire Record Office explains her love of a small, late 18th century book,entitled “The Polite Academy” (HRO Ref, 83M93/65). Subtitled `School of Behaviour for Young Gentlemen and...
Together with the city archives at Southampton and Portsmouth, the Hampshire Record Office (HRO) forms the core of archives in the county. Hampshire Record Office (HRO), run by Hampshire County...
Dr Brian M Collins Winchester College Archives contains tens of thousands of documents, many relating to the College founder, William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester. Recently I translated document number...
The naval ordnance depot in Portsmouth was transferred to Priddy`s Hard, Gosport between 1768 and 1771. The move was following an explosion at the previous store in the city. This...
The Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection, located in Beaulieu, received its largest single donation to date, a remarkable collection containing twelve photograph albums, over six hundred photographs and numerous postcards...
Chamberlain’s account roll This fragment of the Chamberlain’s account roll was conserved at Hampshire Record Office in 2011-2012 funded by a grant from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, supported by...
Hampshire Archives Trust made a small grant to purchase the account book of the Southwick Soapers Charity. It demonstrates that a small amount of money can save an unusual document....
Getting it Right – The Value of Historical Research ADAM Architecture is a leading practice specialising in Classical and Traditional architecture. The practice has been based in Winchester since its...
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 to Southampton or my search...
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 fateful occasion a quantity of...
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 Map of Basingstoke 1762 Basingstoke...
Hampshire Archives Trust supported the establishment and development of Wessex Film and Sound Archive which it jointly administered with Hampshire County Council, to meet the identified need to preserve ‘new’...
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 drawings of buildings and scenes...
In 2012 Portsmouth Museums and Records Office used a grant of £5000 from HAT, in conjunction with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth...
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 reading old documents to...
A sample of 6 of the 153 reels of film made in 1960 -1980 documenting local events in this New Forest village. Jack Hood was a Fordingbridge resident and businessman....