VE Day 8 May – VJ Day 15 August To mark the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II, Hampshire Archives and Wessex Film and Sound Archive explore a selection of the region’s wartime…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Anyone can submit film to Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) but in the run up to this year’s Pride we are taking steps to reach out to LGBTQ+ communities to help build the archive of the f…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
The Exhibition Andover: An Overspill Story was a 12-month community engagement project created with the support of the British Film Institute (BFI) awarding funds from the National Lottery to help …| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Audrey Alma (née Humphries, Rivers, Sloane-Stanley) Granville-Soames (1900-1990) When amateur ciné equipment was introduced from 1922, women were one of the key customers manufacturers sought…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
This year we have been sharing the work of Hampshire filmmaker Jack Hood, whose detailed cine photography captured his home town of Fordingbridge on film. Jack was a prolific amateur filmmaker – we hold 153 reels of film and 97 tapes containing his work. This Autumn we have delivered screenings at Fordingbridge Library and at … Continue reading Fordingbridge on Film – Jack Hood| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Can you imagine packing up your whole life into a single suitcase, and travelling half-way around the world to start afresh? That is exactly what thousands of West Indians did in the late 194…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Wessex Film and Sound Archive holds over 38,000 film and sound items covering Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the historic D-Day landings we’ve mapped a number of films, including a collection of unedited Army Film Production Unit films, to Hampshire locations; highlighting the many varied … Continue reading Hampshire’s Unseen D-Day| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
If you’re a regular reader, you may have seen our introductory blog post about our contemporary collecting project, Andover: An Overspill Story. Anyone can submit film to Wessex Film and Sound Arch…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
A Hampshire Archives Trust grant funded project ‘Basingstoke has history’ has recently been completed. The project’s aims were to catalogue some previously uncatalogued collections relating t…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) holds over 38,000 film and sound items from 1897 to the present day and collects audio-visual material from the wider Wessex area (Hampshire, Berkshire, Bucking…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Building inclusive archives: making the words count This year we have been fortunate enough to collaborate with various partners in our work to build inclusive archives. Our collaboration with the …| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
This select reading list accompanies our Family History Starter Kit, which can be obtained by getting in touch with us by email. The kit itself features a range of links and resources which are wid…| Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
