‘Watercress Line Through Time’ Project
The Watercress Line, Hampshire’s Heritage railway was recently successful in gaining funding from Hampshire Archives Trust, Alresford Historical and Literary Society and New Alresford Town Trust to enhance its family Learning and school learning resources. This funding through our ‘Watercress Line Through Time’ project aims to share well known facts, stories and key moments in […]
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 excavations at Lower Brook Street took place from 1962 to 1971. The Roman phases and finds from the site have already been published. This volume […]
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’ This prolific and thriving local history society has been in existence for some 115 years. Over that time a lot of research material has been gathered and this book brings together material about the […]
Looking for Treasure in Archive Collections
Someone in the past can change your life. They might influence what you think about today or may set you on an adventure. Their words, immortalised in print, tug at a string that has ends beyond visibility and pulls you into the past. This is the magic of the archive. As a research-led artist I […]
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
Series 4: Episode 9 – Exploring LGBTQ+ and Queer Histories
In this episode, Daniella speaks to Professor Matt Cook, the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexuality at Mansfield College at the University of Oxford, about his research into the history of sexuality. Professor Cook describes how local history and LGBTQIA+ history intersect, and explores stories queer individuals in Hampshire.
The Very Old and the Very New: 3D Scanning in an Archive
As a researcher of medieval history, one of my favourite parts of archival work is the actual handling of documents, some of them centuries old. In museums the handling of artefacts of a similar age is typically protected against with hermetically sealed glass cases and the like, however, when visiting an archive, you can be […]
Digital Preservation Coalition
The Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives is a resource created by the Digital Preservation Coalition to support community groups and archives in preserving their digital content.
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 will culminate in a display as part of Portsmouth war commemorations in November 2026. It will also secure the HiP (History in Portsmouth) website’s future. […]