The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.1 | June 2024

News from the Hampshire Archives

SETT, Gosport's famous escape tower and subsequent lives under the sea (AV1683) Rowlands Castle Historical Society, oral history project: additional oral history interviews, 2021-2024 (AV1029) Hyde900 archaeological digs: footage of community archaeological digs carried out as part of the Hyde900 project in 2021 and 2023 (AV1684) Emsworth Museum: BD-R (Bluray): Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust: activities for 2023(AV637) Events Our programme of events for the rest of the year is online at www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/ar chives/events so book now for workshops, tours and talks, as tickets are limited. You can sign up for our newsletter at the top of this web page to get details of our upcoming

events straight to your inbox. There are a few places remaining on the Behind the Scenes Tours for the rest of this year, along with some free foyer exhibitions arranged by community groups. Hampshire Gardens Trust is occupying the space until 3 July. You can view exhibitions during normal opening hours. Workshops on reading old handwriting will help you decipher those squiggles to pin your ancestors down, and sessions on collections care will help you preserve your family history archives. Talks this year comprise both onsite and online, with topics ranging from the Civil War to the WI during World War Two, and missing war memorials from both World Wars. For more news and snippets about our work, follow us on social media – links at the foot of all our web pages.

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