As a young boy Mike Peart stayed with his great uncle who had been Director of Education for Winchester and prominent Rotarian and Freemason. The collection of photographs were
William Hogarth (1697-1764) rose from humble beginnings to become a great British painter and engraver and Serjeant Painter to the King. Early life Hogarth was born in the City of
When thinking of women of the past, we often like to think that a woman's place was in her own home, however, women have taken up occupations throughout history. In the Georgian
Since the Early Iron Age there is evidence of people coming from all over the United Kingdom and the world to make Basingstoke their home. Early Settlements One of the most
At some time during the middle of nineteenth century, the family of Reverend William Francis Burrows (WBM), vicar of Christchurch, Hampshire from 1830 until 1871, began to collect
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the most well-known and beloved writers of all time. During her short life she had completed six novels that have
Arthur Walter 'Jack' Pearce Entering his first ploughing match in 1906, Pearce would go onto win 270 first place awards and competing into his late 70s. Through his history file
The Ch'a Ching, the earliest book on the subject of tea, appeared in China in 780. Legend has it that tea was first drunk there more than three thousand years before, but it was
There are over 26,000 plants held in the Hampshire Cultural Trust collections. Most of them were collected in Hampshire, although our oldest plant (right), Ling, Calluna vulgaris