Unlocking Hampshire’s past

UNLOCKING HAMPSHIRE’S PAST Celebrating the County’s Historians & Archaeologists
Saturday 19th September 2026, from 9:30 for 10:00 start, to 16:30.
St Peter’s Pastoral Centre, Jewry St, Winchester, SO23 8RY

■An opportunity to learn more about a wealth of Hampshire’s history, much published with free access at: hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications.
■New insights into the use of the rich documentary and audiovisual resources of local archives in record offices, colleges and universities.
■An important conference, prompted by the ‘Celebrating Hampshire Historians’ project – a new beginning to local studies in the county.
■ Launch of: Celebrating Hampshire Historians: Their Lives and Works, edited by. Barry Shurlock, Hampshire Field Club, about 448 pages. Profiles of 229 Hampshire historians.

HFC Members: £15.00; Non-members: £20.00. Stallholders: £20.00, table & one attendee, £30 for two.

To book: visit: https://www.ticketsource.com/hantsfieldclub, or email Mike Broderick: CHH-Conference@hantsfieldclub.org.uk.

PROGRAMME
A cast of hundreds: they wrote the county’s story – Barry Shurlock
Popularisation – ‘It happened in Hampshire’, and much else – Roger Ottewill
Cope and other local history collections at the University of Southampton – Karen Robson & Jenny Ruthven
Victoria County History of Hampshire: then and now – Jean Morrin
Churchmen – a cohort of pioneering local historians – Tom Watson
Archaeology and history – two soul-mates – David Allen
Not ‘just’ home movies: interrogating the regional moving image archive – Zoë Viney Burgess
Hampshire’s oldest local history group: the story of Milford-on-Sea – Barry Jolly