Category: Stories from the Archives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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