The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
In the UK, May is Local and Community History Month – a means of highlighting the importance of local history and the importance of community…
This week sees the release of the podcast we recorded for the Hampshire Archives Trust, focusing on Hampshire’s railways and what the project can add…
This blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module.…
Exciting news! We’re gearing up to make our next data release – around 16,000 new records. But we need your help … Provisionally we’re aiming…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
In today’s guest blog post, Julie G takes us back to a place-based approach. She’s interested in Long Buckby Wharf, in Northants – a transport…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James takes us back into an era outside project coverage, and to an accident not usually…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…