Local History Section Spring Symposium

Hampshire County Government

Date: Saturday, 20th April 2024, 9.30 am - 4.15 pm

Everybody in Hampshire and every community, place, village, parish, manor and town were subject to and directed by the officers of the county. They feature in the records of county inhabitants and hence in the National Archives. Of course each place was different but there are more similarities than differences than at first appear in one's own research. Restricting oneself solely to the most local records is to miss the county dimension. This conference explored what the county had to offer us.

Progamme

10.00 Welcome

10.15 Emerita Professor Barbara Yorke, University of Winchester - From Kingdom to Earldom and Sherriffs

11.05 Emertus Professor Michael Hicks, University of Winchester - A much regulated Society, County Government in the 15th Century

12.00 Dr Simon Sandall, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Winchester - Patterns of Authority and Office holding in the Tudor and Stuart County

12.45 - 2.15 - Lunch

2.14 Dr Richard Aldous, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Winchester - c1835-1888 What did County Government do before the County Council?

3.15 Dr Roger Ottewill, Independent Researcher - Sub-National Government in the County of Hampshire in the Modern Era 1834-1939

The Symposium was held in the Cinema at the Hampshire Record Office.