James Daly – a local historian, author and Portsmouth City Council Cultural Services Assistant – gives a behind-the-scenes exclusive on redeveloping the city’s D-Day Museum to tell the story to a new audience. Other places [… read more ]
A new project investigating the history of women’s activism in Portsmouth is looking for volunteers and launches this Saturday 20th October. Dr Sue Bruley, Dr Laurel Forster and Dr Terese Jonsson at the University of [… read more ]
To celebrate the recent release of Portsmouth writer William Sutton’s third Victorian mystery with Titan Books, Lawless & the House of Electricity, today we’re proud to present a short story featuring Victorian detective, Sergeant Campbell Lawless [… read more ]
Continuing his trip down the memory lane of Portsmouth pubs, John Oke Bartlett reminisces over his time at the Fifth Hants on Albert Road, and the local characters he met there. Read Part I here. [… read more ]
Earlier this year, our Editor in Chief Sarah Cheverton judged entries to the Fratton Big Local writing competition, One Day in Fratton. Over 3 weeks, we are publishing the winners and runners up. One of [… 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 ]
S&C presents a short story from Portsmouth author William Sutton, new novel, featuring Victorian detective Sergeant Campbell Lawless, known as Watchman because he was formerly a watchmaker’s apprentice. This short story coincides with the launch [… read more ]
John Oke Bartlett continues his tale from Ted, a regular at The Rocket, Cosham, previously the Railway Hotel. If you missed Part I of Ted’s tale, catch up here. Time for a pint. Lager or [… read more ]
John Oke Bartlett continues his storytelling of Portsmouth’s pub history and the larger than life characters he has met along the way. In the third of the series, we meet Ted, a regular at the [… read more ]
Emily Priest reviews the first Special Collections event at the University of Portsmouth Library and finds a treasure trove of local history and culture that many local residents have yet to discover. On the 25th [… read more ]
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