Saturday 19 September 2026, 10:00 to 16:30
The conference not to miss……
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
- • Rev Sir William Cope, whose collection is now in Southampton University Library
- 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:
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
