Celebrating Hampshire Historians

Historian of the Month

As a part of our Celebrating Hampshire’s Historians project, we feature a Historian of the Month. They are chosen to illustrate the breadth of topics and approaches that we have discovered in building the profiles. The aim is to be as representative as possible and the list includes professional and amateur historians and archaeologists, antiquarians and others, with a cut-off date of 2000. The first profile was posted in April 2022. For any queries, please contact: celebrating@hantsfieldclub.org.uk.  

April 2026 - Sir Henry Englefield

Sir Henry Charles Englefield ... undertook a number of tours in England and Wales, including Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and some of the sketches he made on these journeys still survive. A number are included in A Walk Through Southampton (1805) and Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight (1816).

March 2026 - William Cobbett

William Cobbett: A farmer, soldier, journalist and publisher, as well as economic commentator and politician, Cobbett led an event-laden life that took him to North America, ...and France, and many corners of Britain...

February 2026 - Allan Merson

Allan Merson made "...an important contribution to the recording of Southampton’s history. Between 1952 and 1965 he edited three volumes of the Third Book of Remembrance of Southampton."

January 2026 - Bernard Dawson Knowles

Bernard Knowles was involved with the Southampton War History Committee which sponsored his only historical publication, Southampton...

Follow the links below to find out who was chosen as 'Historian of the Month' in 2022-2025; the first ever 'HoM' - Dr. Joseph Stevens - was posted in April 2022.

Historian of the Month for January-December 2025

Historian of the Month for January-December 2024

Historians of the Month for January-December 2023

Historians of the Month for April-December 2022