Celebrating Hampshire Historians

The Institute for Historical Research, based in London, is the UK's national centre for history, dedicated to supporting historians of all kinds. Organisations across the country ran events to celebrate its centenary (1921-2021), “Our Century: thinking back, looking forward.” The Hampshire Field Club and Archaeology Society was amongst those selected to contribute. The HFC contribution will continue as the profiles, available via the links below, will continue.

Unlocking Hampshire's History: CELEBRATING ITS HISTORIANS & ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Saturday 19th September at St Peter’s Pastoral Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RY, 9.30 am - 4.00 pm

A one-day conference which is based on the more than 200 profiles of individuals in HFC’s landmark project “Celebrating Hampshire Historians” (CHH). It will highlight the lives and work of many of those who, in various ways, have contributed to the story of the county. Although CHH literally “celebrates” the historians covered, a wider aim has been to encourage awareness of their work, and thereby “unlock” the county’s history and its wealth of sources, printed, audiovisual and online. All local historians will benefit from new insights into the range of materials on Hampshire that wait to be used.

Nominated Individuals

In association with HFC members and local societies a list of nominated individuals has been compiled and contributors are writing profiles to be loaded onto the site.

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. Nominations from local societies and volunteers to write the profiles are therefore very welcome. For this and any other queries, please contact: celebrating@hantsfieldclub.org.uk.

'Historian of the Month'

This month's is the forty-second person chosen; you can find out more about the others by taking the link above.

April 2026 - Sir Henry Englefield

Other links

The Victoria County HIstory Hampshire's Newsletter for Spring 2022 celebrates Basingstoke's Historians.

We would also welcome comments on the posted articles, including information to fill the gaps in entries.

In due course we will be adding a directory of current active organisations in Hampshire.