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Winchester College Archives and Treasures Tour

The Winchester School hour long archive tour will starting at 2pm allows a rare opportunity to view two medieval rooms which house the school’s archives, as well as documents and artefacts relating to the school’s history which will be on display. We will be able to explore the treasures of Winchester College’s collections, including works of art and rare books that are not normally on public display. This will be followed by an opportunity to explore the College’s original museum and art gallery and part of the Fellows’ Library where there is a changing display of rare books and manuscripts, prints, and drawings. The Tour will end from 4 to 4.30pm. There are no refreshment facilities on site, but there are local pubs and cafes nearby. Please let me know if you would be interested in having a social catch up with the other members afterwards when booking and once I have an idea of numbers I can book a nearly location and will let you know. Access: Due to the historic nature of the site, some areas are unfortunately inaccessible to those with mobility restrictions. In particular, the two rooms visited on the Archives tour are both accessed via steep, stone spiral staircases of 36 and 52 steps each, with no handrails. One of the 3-4 rooms visited on the Treasures tours is also reached via multiple flights of stairs. However, the rest of the Treasures tour is on ground level and / or wheelchair accessible.

Thu 18 Jun15:00Plague Memorial

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Hampshire’s merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities, c.1588–c.1765

Event description: This webinar explores how merchant shipping and maritime communities developed along the Hampshire coast between c.1588 and c.1765, drawing on new findings from a major AHRC-funded project on early modern English seaborne trade. By shifting the focus from national patterns to the distinctive maritime world of Hampshire, the session highlights the growth of Hampshire’s fleet, examines its trade networks, and explores its maritime communities. The webinar also introduces the project’s digital resources and demonstrates how they open new avenues for research into England’s coastal economies. Speakers: Craig Lambert is Professor of Maritime History at the University of Southampton. He is Principal Investigator on a number of research projects, including the AHRC-funded project, ‘English merchant shipping, trade and maritime communities from the Spanish Armada to the Seven Years War, c.1588–c.1765’. Craig’s recent research has focused on Medieval and Tudor merchant shipping and maritime communities. John McAleer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southampton and Co-Investigator on the AHRC project. His work explores the British encounter and engagement with the wider world, situating the history of empire in its global and maritime contexts.

Wed 16 Sept20:00Plague Memorial

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The Middleton Family of Townhill House: A tale of Jamaica, India, Bankruptcies & Elopements

Event description: The stylish villa of Townhill Park House was created in the 18th century for the Middleton family. Nathanial Middleton had retired from the East India Company after making a fortune in India, collecting a vast array of Persian Art and having a family with his Indian mistress. His mixed-race wife inherited her fortune from her father's Jamaican plantation. What followed next was a National scandal, a trial that dominated the tabloids, bankruptcies , elopements and mental collapse.  This talk will cover the rise and fall of the Middleton's of Townhill Park House Speaker: Dr Cheryl Butler is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Hon Fellow of the University of Winchester, on the editorial board of the Southampton Records Series, and of the Hampshire Papers. Her most recent publications include two volumes for the Records Series, a paper on the Journal of John Sturdy for Hampshire Papers and First Impressions: Jane Austen's Southampton Circle 1780-1820 available from http://www.hobnobpress.co.uk. This latter book contains much of the research on the Middleton family who were known to Jane Austen The event is free to members of the Hampshire Archives Trust - simply register for the event below by logging in. There is a fee of £5 for non-Hampshire Archives Trust Members who will need to register here - whilst logged in.There is a fee of £2 for non-HAT member Students who will also need to register here - using their...

Wed 21 Oct20:00Plague Memorial

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Letters to Elsie: Echoes of War and Sea

Event description: Letters to Elsie: Echoes of War and Sea is a Portsmouth-based heritage project uncovering a remarkable family archive spanning nearly sixty years, from the 1880s to 1937. At its heart are over 200 letters sent to Elsie, many written in code by a sailor travelling on Royal Mail ships in the interwar years, alongside deeply personal wartime correspondence from her brothers, Frederick and Reginald Batchelor. Their letters—many addressed to their mother, Elizabeth—offer rare insight into family life during the First World War, including Frederick’s extraordinary and little-documented experiences in British East Africa, for which he was awarded the Military Cross, and Reginald’s service on the Western Front. Both brothers were lost during the war. The archive also reveals earlier and wider family stories, including letters from Elizabeth’s stepchildren, Victorian-era documents, and the impact of the Farrow’s Bank collapse in 1920. Working with Portsmouth History Centre, the project will digitise, transcribe, and begin to decode this unique collection, preserving and sharing an intimate story of love, loss, and resilience across generations. Speakers: Jackson Batchelor and Simon Berry are Portsmouth-based amateur historians with a shared passion for uncovering and preserving local heritage.

Wed 18 Nov19:00Plague Memorial

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The Devil's Book: The Battle over Festive Culture in Early Stuart England

Event description: In this illustrated talk, Dr Alistair Dougall will explore how serious divisions emerged in early modern England between those who valued traditional festivity and those who tried to suppress it, and how attitudes to traditional festive pastimes and celebrations became a major factor in determining people’s allegiance in the English Civil War. The talk will include some examples from Hampshire but will not focus on the county but look instead at events and issues across England. It will look at the types of sports and pastimes enjoyed by people in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and at how and why attitudes to festive traditions changed in the late sixteenth century. With events like the Olympics, we are today used to sports bringing people together but, far from uniting people, sports and their celebration had become hugely divisive by the early seventeenth century. The talk will look at the “Book of Sports” - the name commonly given to a declaration that James I issued which explicitly licensed the playing of certain sports and leisure activities on Sundays and which his son, Charles I then tried to enforce. Its enforcement was extremely contentious.

Wed 9 Dec19:00Plague Memorial

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