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2026-2027 History competition for schools will launch in September 2026

Do you love History? Do you want to become a good historian? Do you want to find out more about archives? Do you want to win a prize? Hampshire Archives...

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WINNERS of the 2026 Hampshire History Competition for schools announced

The winners of this year’s History competition for schools have been announced. The winner of the Years 7-9 Group prize is the Gregg School, and the winner of the Years...

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Swelling Pond excavation Four Marks

HAT has awarded £100 for a project based at Swelling Hill Pond, situated between Ropley and Four Marks, a beautiful hill-top pond surrounded by idyllic nature and fed by an...

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Brooks excavation Winchester

Winchester Studies 5: The Brooks and other sites of medieval Winchester. Wessex Excavation Committee has been awarded £5000 by HAT towards the cost of producing this volume. Winchester Excavations Committee’s...

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All the Queen’s Men

Milford on Sea Historical Record Society has been awarded a HAT grant of £500 towards the publication ‘All the Queen’s Men’ The society produced a video in June 2026 now...

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Watercress Line video now on you tube

The Watercress Line project HAT helped fund has now created the lively and entertaining video about the history of the railway. It is hosted on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNC-i0EvAk8&list=RDQNC-i0EvAk8&start_radio=1

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Letters to Elsie

This project by the Battle of Southsea Society will preserve, digitise, transcribe, interpret and secure the future of the Batchelor family archive, donated via the History in Portsmouth website.The project...

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Waterside Heritage – digitisation

Waterside Heritage secured a grant from HAT for £389 to purchase a slide scanner to digitise and catalogue over 15,000 mounted slides. 35mm slides, especially colour ones, deteriorate with time...

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Keeping Bigg-Wither archive in Hampshire

Papers came up for sale at auction November 2025 relating to the Bigg-Wither family of Manydown, Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, containing estate, official and family material dating mainly from...

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