Upcoming Event – Showcasing Hampshire History – Saturday 14th September
As part of this years Heritage Open Days festival there will be a day of Local history exhibitions & talks held at the Ashburton Hall, Elizabeth II Court, Sussex Street, Winchester SO23 8TG on Saturday 14th September from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Free admission – cafeteria – public parking available – short walk from Winchester station
EXHIBITORS
- Hampshire Genealogical Society
- Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society
- Hampshire Archives Trust
- Southampton Record Series
- Southern History
- Victoria County History of Hampshire
- Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society
- Alresford Historical & Literary Society
- Bitterne Local History Society
- Eastleigh & District Local History Society
- Micheldever Station Heritage Group
- Petersfield Area Historical Society
- Romsey Local History Society
- Titchfield Local History Society
- Worthys Local History Group
TALKS
10:30-Publishing with the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society
Dick Selwood
Dick is a former President of the Hampshire Field Club, and edits the HFC Newsletter and its series of Hampshire Papers.
11:00-The life and times of William Ghost of Southampton: Elizabethan mariner, lodging housekeeper and privateer
Cheryl Butler
Cheryl is a contributing editor to the Southampton Records Series and the Hampshire Papers and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
11:30-Celebrating Hampshire Historians
Barry Shurlock
Barry is a retired medical journalist with a wide interest in local history. He writes regularly for the Hampshire Chronicle and various journals.
12:00-Nuggets of local and county history from The Little Book of Hampshire
Erica Wheeler
Erica is a Tour Guide for Winchester and a professional Blue Badge Tour Guide for Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. She belongs to the Worthys Local History Group and edits its journal, Worthy History.
12:30-The popularisation of local history
Roger Ottewill
Roger retired in 2008 after 35 years in higher education and in 2015 was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham. He has published many articles on local religious history and local politics and administration, particularly in the last two centuries.
13:00-Publishing in Hampshire Studies and Southern History
Michael Hicks
Michael has had a distinguished career as a scholar of late medieval history and is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester.He is past Secretary of the Hampshire Field Club and Southern History Society and Local History Editor of Hampshire Studies.
LUNCH BREAK
14:30-“Digging up” your ancestors
Fiona Ranger
Fiona is a professional genealogist, a Trustee of the charity, Hampshire Genealogical Society, as well as its bookstall manager and liaison officer.
15:00-How the Press reported Romsey in World War II
Phoebe Merrick
Phoebe Merrick is a well-known local historian who has been studying the history of Romsey for 50 years. She is currently studying for a PhD. Amongst her many achievements is a 4-volume edition of the notes on Romsey made at the end of the 18th century by Dr John Latham (available from www.ltvas.org.uk).
15:30-The Captain Swing riots in Hampshire: why they are important and how their bicentenary is being commemorated
Edward Fennell & Bill Lucas
Bill is Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester, and chair of the English Project, and law journalist Edward, founder of the Hyde900 project, is Co-ordinator of the Bicentenary project.
https://www.winchesterheritageopendays.org/