Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #EYAMedieval. This charter was granted in 1449 by Abbot Thomas and the monks of Hyde Abbey to Robert Inkepenne and others, tenants of their manor of Drayton Cannes, in the parish of Barton Stacey (2M64/1). #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage

We hold a number of photographs and printed items about the beauty care service in the 1970s-80s, part of a collection transferred to us by the British Red Cross from the Balfour Museum of Red Cross History in Hampshire. Our catalogue of them is at

For today's #ExploreYourArchive theme, #EYABeauty, a photograph showing beauty care services provided by the Hampshire Branch of the @BritishRedCross to help patients in hospital look & feel at their best even during treatment (173A12/C2/1). @explorearchives #hampshirearchives

This plan had many tears and losses. The inks & watercolour were tested to establish how stable they were. The plan was gently humidified to flatten the folds. Tears were repaired using remoistenable Japanese tissue, and losses were infilled with heavier tissue. @explorearchives

Many plans we hold are on tracing paper - ideal for working drawings, but now often brittle because of the methods used to make it translucent - the pulp fibres were heavily beaten before pressing to compact the fibres and press any air out, and oil/resin products often added.

Today we begin #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week, with #EYAConservation, and a plan on fragile tracing paper, now conserved, for houses in Fairfield Road, Winchester by T Stopher (courtesy Winchester City Council: W/C11/2/555) #hampshirearchives #hampshireheritage #winchesterhistory

On #nationalillustrationday we'd like to credit the illustrator - but who? It's an #archivemystery: the initials (top right) are similar to those on some drawings of Andover & Hurstbourne Park (clearer there), TOP10/2/34 - perhaps J/T, B, G/C. Can anyone help identify the artist?

It's #NationalIllustrationDay! This sketch shows Mr Troughton’s silk mill near Overton (built c1769 and demolished 1848), probably on 26 Aug 1794 (TOP245/2/4). The text mentions there were about 200 staff & 247 windows. #hampshirearchives #hampshireheritage #overtonhampshire

Our ‘accession of the month’ for November is a series of parish magazines received from Newtown near #Burghclere. 'Newtown Notes' was established in the spring of 1975, and produced four times a year until December 1978 (137M84/PZ2). #hampshirearchives #hampshireheritage

Continuing to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway system: this plan of the Eastleigh Rail Works, dated 1941, shows the Carriage & Waggon Works and the Locomotive Works which moved to #Eastleigh in 1890 & 1910 (151A07/A1). #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #Railway200

While living at Chawton, Jane Austen wrote 3 novels including Emma. Hampshire Archives holds the Austen-Leigh collection which includes a letter to James Edward Austen-Leigh from his great aunt Jane Leigh-Perrot, giving her views on Emma, 29 Oct 1828 (23M93/86/3/4) #Janeausten250

Still time to book for online talk about The Master's House - originally the schoolmaster's house for the Boys' National School, #Romsey - and those who've lived there. Mon 24 Nov 6pm. £8, booking req'd: https://t.co/1ynoPk7bJc #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #romseyhistory

Delighted to announce next on-site talk, exploring the story of Westbury House on the borders of #WestMeon and #EastMeon. The talk will be at Hampshire Record Office, Mon 15 Dec, 6pm. £8, booking req'd: https://t.co/3t7ZbtvLsX #HampshireHeritage #MeonValley #countryhousehistory

We’re looking forward to welcoming internationally renowned silent film musician Stephen Horne to Winchester for our Hampshire’s War: VE VJ 80 film screening 11/12/25. We’d love to see you there! Pre-booking essential, book online: https://t.co/scTLaY57PE

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of #QueenAlexandra, consort of Edward VII. Illustration: invitation to Winchester's commemorations of their Coronation, 1902, incl a drawing by G H Kitchin (105A17/B2) #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #WinchesterHistory #OnThisDay

It is not long until our next online talk, 'The Master's House, National Boys' School, #Romsey', on Monday 24th November, 6pm given by Philip Newton. £8, booking essential https://t.co/1ynoPk7bJc #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #romseyhistory

Today is Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Day. Hampshire Record Office holds a volume dated 1735 which gives step-by-step instructions on how to make fireworks (Jervoise of Herriard Collection 44M69/F14/2/26/3) #hampshirearchives #fireworks

The illustration shows an elevation of the Master's House from the architect William Eden Nesfield's drawings for the school, dated 1870 (20M65/74/7).

Next online talk: The Master's House, National Boys' School, #Romsey, Mon 24 Nov, 6pm. Philip Newton will share the story of the house, its design and inhabitants. £8, booking essential: https://t.co/1ynoPk7bJc Illustration: . #hampshirearchives #HampshireHeritage #romseyhistory

This map of Chawton, surveyed 1741 & copied 1771, shows tree-lined avenue to St Nicholas' Church & @ChawtonHouse at middle left. Jane Austen's home from 1809 - now @JaneAustenHouse - is near top left, nr junction of Winchester Rd & Gosport Rd (Knight archive at HRO 39M89/E/B384).