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Hampshire HistBites
A brilliant history and heritage podcast created by Hampshire History Trust, the charity that also organises Winchester Heritage Open Days.Our aim is to offer everyone the opportunity to delve into the past and go on a journey to discover hidden heritage and hear fascinating untold tales. We usually talk to experts and enthusiasts who are based in Hampshire and/or who have stories to share about Hampshire’s history and heritage. Occasionally though we may go further afield, it just depends where the research and the stories take us!
Episodes
74 episodes
Bonus Episode: The History Guy with Dan Snow
Dan Snow is a BAFTA award winning historian, broadcaster and television presenter. Dan makes programmes around the world on a range of historical topics, from the abandoned Viking churches of Greenland to war damaged sites of Timbuktu. He i...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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27:53
Evelyn Dunbar & Sparsholt College
Dunbar's work is featured heavily in the newly opened Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London. Dunbar's work is the subject of a talk at the AshmoleanMuseum in Oxford.
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35:27
Licoricia Part 2
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.Rebecca p...
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30:13
Licoricia Part 1
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.Rebecca p...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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24:20
Hampshire Archives Trust
Daniella Gonzalez is a Medievalist and Cataloguer at the UK Parliamentary Archives. She is also a member of the Hampshire Archives Trust team, where she is responsible for...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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20:46
Hovercraft Museum
Join HistBites’ host, Julian Gerry as he speaks with Doug Coulson, curator of the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-the-Solent. The Hovercraft Museum is the only of one of its kind in the world and holds greatest collection of Hovercraft archive, fil...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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33:20
Queen Emma of Normandy Part 2
History generally remembers Emma of Normandy as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Edward the Confessor. However, Emma’s life, as with most Queens, was so much more than the wife and mother of King...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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23:49
Queen Emma of Normandy: Much More Than a Wife (Part 1)
History generally remembers Emma of Normandy as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Edward the Confessor. However Emma's life (as with most Queens) was so much more than a wife and mother.Join J...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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23:13
War Reaches Hampshire: Catastrophe in the Cathedral
One day, the halls of Winchester Cathedral are filled with whispered prayers and holy songs. The next, they echo with the roaring of gunfire and hooves crashing over the tombs of holy men.The English Civil War was a conflict that spared ...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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33:54
250 Years of History with the Hampshire Chronicle
At a glance, Winchester is a city preserved in history—sheltered from the winds of time and change. Upon closer inspection, you will discover that there are new stories and developments happening around every corner. It’s the job of Andrew Napi...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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22:14
From Riches to Rags, then Restoration - King John’s House
Over the course of centuries, how many times can one building change ownership? How many voices of the past echo within its rooms and halls? These are questions that Mark Udall, General Manager of King John’s House, seeks to answer as he joins ...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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26:23
Black John: Southampton's 16th Century African Entrepeneur
Black John was a free African carpenter who chose to make a living in Southampton at the turn of the 16th century. Dr Abdoulie Sanneh reveals John’s story and how he brought it to life with the Sarah Siddons Fan Club theatre performance company...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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22:08
Myths and Legends of the Test Valley
In the beautiful village of Amport, an owl hoots, and then a baker’s daughter pays a magical price for her cruelty. ‘The Baker’s Daughter of Amport’ is one of many local legends that Amanda Kane-Smith brings to life as a storyteller. Combining ...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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26:37
Barley, Hops, and Toil: Ingredients to Southwick Brewhouse’s Success
In 1957, Master Brewer Dick Olding produced his last batch of beer and retired at the age of 81. Martin Bazeley and Matt Hallett join Julian Gerry to share Olding’s story, as well as the decades of history and tradition behind the brewing proce...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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34:57
Walkeology: Wanders, Wonders and Wunderkammers
In this episode, the final one of Season 7 we join Fay Stevens, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and explore walking as a question. An archaeologist by training, Fay is interested in the potential of obj...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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33:15
Hampshire Cultural Trust: Linking the Past with the Future
Hampshire Cultural Trust is an organisation that manages twenty-three museums, arts centres, and galleries across the county and cares for millions of historical objects. Chief Executive Paul Sapwell reveals what it takes to keep such a vast ne...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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20:32
The Hidden House in Hursley Park
Hursley Park near Winchester is a private estate owned by the IBM. Here you will find new buildings and also an 18th-century Queen Anne style mansion in which - many of our listeners will recall - once saw
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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29:14
Tragedy at Sea: Southampton's Connection to the Titanic
As the RMS Titanic left Southampton on 10th April 1912, crowds filled the docks to wave goodbye to their friends and family. Many of the ship’s crew and passengers were Southampton natives who would never return to their city again. Mar...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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30:37
The Life and Death of Henry V’s Navy in Hampshire
For centuries, England has been known as one of the world’s strongest naval powers, but in the tumultuous age of Henry V, this fearsome reputation had yet to be forged. During the Hundred Years’ War, England and France waged a fierce war at sea...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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24:50
Pear Tree Church: From the Bishop of Winchester to the Life of Pi
Join us for a fascinating insight into the history of the little-known Pear Tree Church in Southampton. From its peaceful position close to the eastern bank of the River Itchen, Pear Tree’s influence and intrigue stretch far wider than first ju...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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26:56
How Two Millenia of History Shaped the River Itchen
At first glance, the River Itchen appears to be nothing more than a quaint waterway without much history behind it. However, within its calm streams rests thousands of years of human civilisation. Elizabeth Proudman, a local historian and forme...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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33:59
Dark Gold: The Lifeblood of Early Modern Europe
In our last episode on chocolate, Andy Silen-McMillin joins Holly Marsden as they trace its journey across early modern Europe and its many uses as a product.When most people think of chocolate today, they think of hot chocolate or choc...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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16:38
Dark Gold: A Drink for Doctors and Kings
Join us as we trace the fascinating journey of chocolate in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries - from its arrival - not without issue - on Hampshire shores, to its place at the very centre of Stuart royal life. Guided on our way by Holly Marsden...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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25:03
Dark Gold: Bringing Chocolate from Mesoamerica to Europe
It’s that time of the year when Terry’s Chocolate Oranges and tins of Quality Streets are lining the shelves – but how much do you really know about the history behind chocolate?In the first of a three-part series, join Dr Gabrielle Stor...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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25:27
Hampshire Ramblers’ Fight to Preserve our Paths
The UK’s historic walking trails have been used for millennia. Roman sandals have walked the same paths as modern trainers. But these routes are in danger of disappearing forever. Join Peter and Paul from the Hampshire Ramblers to learn how the...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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30:12
