Swaythling in the Great War

It has been a successful end to the month of August, with our Community Workshop attracting many attendees on Tuesday 29th! Members of the local community joined us in discussing the potential for a ‘Swaythling in the Great War’ Heritage

The project has an exciting week ahead, with our first Community Workshop taking place on Tuesday 29th August, at the Round About Café in Swaythling! The workshop will be a drop in style event, leaving people free to come by

Yesterday, the student volunteers Lucy, Halina and Matthew accompanied me on a trip to the Solent Sky Museum near Southampton Docks, to further investigate the US Naval Airfield on North Stoneham Farm. Whilst there was a short passage on Edwin Rowland Moon,

Cast your minds back a couple of months to the end of May… The research project took part in a community outreach festival called Riverfest. This was a good opportunity for the project to conduct field research while engaging with

My name is Matthew and I am entering my third year as a Modern History and Politics student at the University of Southampton this September. My interest in the project was first piqued because I live in Swaythling itself. For

This week saw US themed back to back research trips for the project, to gather more information on American soldiers in Swaythling, and the US Naval Airfield on North Stoneham Farm.  I visited the University of Southampton Hartley Library Archives

The Hampshire Archives, Winchester Yesterday I accompanied Halina, Matthew and Lucy on a trip to Winchester, to conduct more research into Swaythling during the Great War. We looked at a variety of topics, such as the Remount Depot, the US

Hello everyone! My name is Kirstie Guildford and I have recently joined the Swaythling in the Great War project. I graduated from the University of Southampton this year with a BA in History, and I am keen to stay involved

Yesterday was so exciting: we took a group of students and local residents to London to visit the National Archives and the British Library! We were looking at remount officers’ service records from Swaythling, as well as maps of the local depots and newspaper reports

My name is Caroline and I’m a second-year History student at the University of Southampton. Even though I tend to specialise in medieval history I was interested in the Swaythling Great War project because of the type of research it