Hampshire Archives: Preserving the History of Today for Tomorrow
You don’t need to look far to see that we’re living in unusual times. However, not even COVID-19 can outlast history. Learn how Zoe Viney is helping to document the lives of everyday people like you for future generations.
How will future generations regard the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it changed our lives? Here in Hampshire, Zoe Viney of Wessex Film & Sound Archive based at Hampshire Record office in Winchester is helping to create a record of local life in lockdown through the project Making History: Making Movies.
In our latest episode she talks to Eleanor Andrews-Steele about her work curating historic film and invites us all to participate in the project by recording our personal experiences of the good, the bad and the boring aspects of life amid a pandemic. Submit your video clips, photographs or diary entries to the Archive and leave your mark for posterity. Find out how to submit here.
Zoe Viney
Zoë works as Curator of Film at Wessex Film & Sound Archive (WFSA), based in Winchester at Hampshire Record Office and is also a Postgraduate Research Student in Film at the University of Southampton.
Making History Making Movies
To find out more information on the Making History Making Movies project or where to submit your footage, click here.
Further Information and Additional Links
Wessex Film and Sound Archives is now run by Hampshire Record Office. They hold over 22,000 cinefilms and video recordings, and over 16,000 sound recordings. The collection includes items from a variety of sources, each offering a unique insight into the region’s past. To find out more about the Wessex Film and Sound Archive, click here
Chalk Talk: Hampshire's Prehistoric Ecosystem
Rivers, streams, and other bodies of water are the lifeblood for Hampshire’s wonderful natural resources. Join us as we discover their history and the challenging work to protect them in the modern age.
Rivers, streams, and other bodies of water are the lifeblood for Hampshire’s natural resources. In this episode Susan Simmonds explores their history and the challenging work to protect them in the modern age.
Why not listen as you take a walk along the banks of the River Itchen, if you do you will enter a magical world where otters play, mayfly dart, brown trout slip through the weeds and water vole peer from burrows. Winchester has its very own Wind in the Willows habitat!
Join us today as Susan Simmonds of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust talks to Kyle Alexander about her work protecting and celebrating the county’s glorious chalk stream landscapes and where and when to spot the Itchen’s beguiling array of wildlife.
Susan graduated in Environmental Science, has a lifelong passion for wildlife and has worked in the conservation sector for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (HIWWT) for over 20 years. Susan is also a sessional lecturer at Sparsholt College on the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation degree and the Land & Wildlife Management Level 3 Diploma.
Susan has a Certificate to teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS) and enjoys passing on her knowledge through running training courses like plant species identification and mammal tracks and signs. This last year has provided an opportunity to explore online learning and Susan has delivered training courses, school, college and university sessions online, alongside making educational videos and running online clubs.
Kyle Alexander is a Creative Producer from London. He has developed multi-media content for BBC Radio, The Sunday Times and Universal Studios, Los Angeles. He maintains a passionate interest in British culture and heritage and has a Masters Degree in History from the University of Manchester. Kyle is currently living in Winchester, writing an issue of a new travel magazine, due to be released later this year.
FURTHER RESOURCES
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust have been taking part in Winchester Heritage Open Days for a number of years now, and so we are delighted when we heard the news they have been accepted into the national Heritage Open Days project. You can discover more here, and we look forward to welcoming them back again for the 2021 festival.
If you want to learn more about what the Hampshire Wildlife Trust do, then you can follow them on various social media:
Facebook - @HampshireandIsleofWightWildlifeTrust
Instagram - @hantsiwwildlife
Twitter - @HantsIWWildlife or you can follow Susan on Twitter - @susanjsimmonds
Or you can have a look at their website and their YouTube Channel to engage in their wide range of videos.
Re-discovering our ancient and traditional heritage crafts
Dr Alex Langlands, a familiar face from the BBC Victorian Farm series, reveals how material foraged from our local landscape can be turned into practical and beautiful objects that connect us with the natural world.
Join us for a very special episode as we connect with nature and re-discover our incredible heritage and endangered skills in our hedgerows and beyond.
Archaeologist Dr Alex Langlands, presenter of the BBC’s Victorian Farm series, talks to Charlotte Tindle about his book Cræft and how, over centuries, we humans have learnt to use the natural materials around us to practical ends, from whittling wood or spinning wool to smoking fish and meat. Working with nature can help us engage with our local landscape in a more meaningful way, as he reveals in his new YouTube videos on the art of basket-making using wild hedgerow brambles.
Dr Alex Langlands is currently a lecturer in medieval history, archaeology and heritage at Swansea University, and a patron of the Heritage Crafts Association. He presented the BBC programmes Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Farm and is the author of Craeft: An Enquiry into the Origins of Crafts.
FURTHER RESOURCES AND A CALL TO ACTION!
For more information on Dr Langlands work visit www.alexlanglands.wordpress.com or follow him on Twitter.
To learn more about endangered heritage crafts, and the work that is happening to safeguard craft skills and knowledge for the future visit the Heritage Craft Association. Throughout Covid-19 lockdown they have been hosting some great online events for FREE.
Thank you
The original recording of this podcast was produced for the 2020 Winchester Heritage Open Days by a small team of students at the University of Winchester. We would like to thank again Charlotte Tindle, who led the student team and of course also Dr Alex Langlands for helping create this wonderful episode.
It's time for Season Three!
Join Hampshire Histbites’ very own Nicky Gottlieb and Becky Brown as they talk about their incredible team who make HistBites possible, future podcasts and the 2021 Heritage Open Days festival.
Reflecting on the HistBites journey, and our edible plans for 2021
HistBites is the brainchild of Nicky Gottlieb and Becky Brown, the festival directors of Winchester Heritage Open Days.
In this specially commissioned episode to introduce Season Three they talk to Emma Cornell Stoffer about their favourite podcasts so far, ranging from the colourful history of vintage King Alfred buses to the sometimes gory stories behind our popular sea shanties.
More exciting podcasts are planned. Look out, they say, for episodes covering Hampshire chalk streams, Florence Nightingale and the Chesil Railway-not to mention a mouthwatering schedule of events for Winchester’s 2021 Heritage Open Days celebrating Edible England.
Nicky Gottlieb and Becky Brown first met in the late autumn of 2017, following the inaugural Winchester Heritage Open Days festival. Since then they have become great friends as they have worked in partnership organising and promoting Heritage Open Days events in and around Winchester, as well as setting up Hampshire HistBites in 2020.
They have also founded a brand new charitable Trust - Hampshire History Trust - to oversee their work, and to develop new community projects across Hampshire.
They could not have done any of this though without the support and assistance of their amazing team of volunteers including the fabulous Emma Cornell-Stoffer who interviews them in this episode. They are also immensely grateful to sponsors Winchester College and Winchester BID.
Further Information And Additional Links:
If you enjoyed this podcast, why not listen to some of our earlier episodes, they can all be found here.
If you would like to find out more about the new charitable Trust - Hampshire History Trust - visit the new website.
And if you want to get involved with the festival and/or podcast channel why not get in contact with us.