S&C Community Reporter Andrew Hurdle revisits the 2018 Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in this exclusive photo essay. It’s Sunday 22nd July 2018 and I’m in the small village of Tolpuddle, Dorset. The main road is closed, [… read more ]
By Keith Baker Inspired by a visit to Portchester Castle Each day I patrol my fort, watch and wait. I first saw the fort’s stern grey stone walls rising from the sea as we sailed [… read more ]
Local writer and historian Emily Turner was inspired by the recent Edward King exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum and is running her own research project exploring the creativity of patients in mental health institutions. She [… read more ]
The University of Portsmouth is full of forgotten treasures. A new project being run by Records Management Officer, Nina Shore and her colleagues aims to find them. One of the advantages of being disorganized is [… read more ]
S&C contributor Andrew Larder takes a trip back in time with former alumni of Portsmouth College of Art, Sue and David Gibbons and reflects on whether life was better for students in the sixties, whilst [… read more ]
S&C regular Andrew Larder launches the first in a series of hidden histories exploring Portsmouth’s industrial estates, starting at Airport Industrial Estate, in the north east of the city. In 1979 punk band The Fall [… read more ]
The University of Portsmouth is opening the doors to its Special Collections in a unique and free community event to celebrate the University’s 25th birthday. The University of Portsmouth Library is hosting a free event [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based historian and acclaimed author of The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion 1215-17, Richard Brooks, argues that important lessons from the medieval period should be remembered in this current age of Brexit, economic [… read more ]
West End actor and former lecturer John Oke Bartlett recalls Portsmouth’s rich (and bitter) history of bars and breweries. The Royal Standard in Edinburgh Road is one of those special gems that very nearly closed [… read more ]
S&C contributing editor John Oke Bartlett has been collecting anecdotes from Portsmouth pubs for years. This one has an unexpectedly explosive denouement. There is nothing better than whiling away the time in an old pub [… read more ]
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