About Hampshire Archives

We are Hampshire County Council’s Archive service, based at Hampshire Record Office in Winchester, and we provide specialist storage and conservation for, and public access to, historic documents relating to Hampshire.

We retained the Archive Service Accreditation Standard in July 2024.

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Accredited Archive Service logo

Mission

To collect, safeguard, and share Hampshire’s rich archival heritage for people now, and for future generations.

Vision

A modern, relevant and sustainable archive service for everyone.

Our priorities

Ensuring Hampshire's history has a home.

Investing in digital services.

Promoting archives collections for all.

Policy and performance

We serve residents of Hampshire, and the wider community and are one of the busiest archive services in the country. We hold national accreditation status, awarded by The National Archives, which recognises high levels of performance in local authority archive services.

Annual Performance 2022/2023 2023/2024 2024/2025
Visits to search room 2,152 2,317 2,053
Other archive customers 8,521 7,767 7,721
Documents retrieved 13,774 10,758 10,224
Views on Ancestry 47,895 2,932,523 2,930,822
Volunteer hours 560 1,068 1,542