Meet at St Michaels Church by 3.00pm An added attraction will be the opportunity to stay on at the end of the walk in the last building visited to enjoy some South Indian food.  The building is now an Indian Restaurant as well as being the earliest residential building so far identified in the town. […]

“Writing good local history depends on finding the best sources and remembering to cite them!” These words echo the theme of this meeting, 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 […]

Winchester Archaeology Group (WARG) will be returning to a group of Bronze Age barrows near Hinton Ampner for the third and final season of excavation in September. The apparently ploughed-out barrows, in their valley bottom setting, have unexpectedly revealed well preserved ditches protected by a considerable depth of hill-wash and a significant remnant of the […]

The 2026 OGS Crawford Lecture will be ‘My life and work in Winchester’ by Dr John Crook FSA. John Crook is an independent architectural historian, archaeological consultant and photographer. He has published many books on subjects ranging from the Medieval Cult of Saints to the activities of William Walker, the diver employed to save Winchester Cathedral […]

The third Edward Roberts Memorial Lecture will be given by Nick Hill, a buildings archaeologist and architectural historian with a particular interest in English houses of the medieval and early modern period.  He is a longstanding member of the Vernacular Architecture Group, serving as its treasurer from 2008.  Before his recent retirement he was a […]

The arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in London and political events closer to our own time remind us that regime changes have massive impacts on countries’ populations. We hear about the politics, but what was life actually like in England in the lead up to the Battle of Hastings?  We hope to give a flavour […]