Showcasing Hampshire History

At Ashburton Hall, Elizabeth II Court, Sussex Street, Winchester with:

Local history exhibition & talks
Free entry
Cafeteria
Public parking alongside

Saturday 14 September: 10:00am to 4:00pm

As part of Heritage Open Days, Ashburton Hall will be used as a base for wide range of exhibitors which is listed below. There will be a number of talks on topics linked to Hampshire:

Talks

10:30 - Publishing with the Hampshire Field Club & Archeological 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.