Southampton Common and the papers of Lawrence Arthur Burgess The History Begins at Home initiative is all about helping you connect with family and friends through conversation about the past and the current theme is #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace, encouraging peopl…

Please check out our latest blogpost on Southampton Common #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace and the Papers of Lawrence Arthur Burgess: https://buff.ly/42oubrG @BeginsHistory @HantsCulture

Southampton Common and the papers of Lawrence Arthur Burgess The History Begins at Home initiative is all about helping you connect with family and friends through conversation about the past and the current theme is #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace, encouraging people to share memories of all things local: shops, parks, pubs and more. To that end we dive into the Papers of Lawrence Arthur Burgess, who was Deputy Librarian of Southampton Public Libraries from 1934.

Southampton Common and the papers of Lawrence Arthur Burgess

The History Begins at Home initiative is all about helping you connect with family and friends through conversation about the past and the current theme is #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace, encouraging people to share memories of all things local:…

A 1974 letter to Lord Mountbatten from Christopher Cockerell on the Admiralty and the hovercraft

January’s #DocumentOfTheMonth is a 1974 letter to Lord Mountbatten from Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, who from 1960 lived and worked at Hythe in Hampshire @HantsCulture where he headed Hovercraft Ltd @BeginsHistory #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace

A picture of the Barbara Hepworth sculpture 'Two Figures' (1968) in the snow on the Highfield Campus

We nearly saw snow in Southampton this week, here's a snowy pic from February 1996 depicting Barbara Hepworth's bronze 'Two Figures' (1968) on the Highfield Campus - Barbara was born today, 10th January, in 1903 @BeginsHistory #HBAHAllAboutThatPlace