At Hampshire (2024) we are doing everything we can, entirely through volunteers. For example, we inherited the papers of my colleague and mentor Neil Jenkinson who kept paper files on almost every Hampshire cricketer. They are now organised alphabetically in folders in the Archive at the ground, informed my recent published A-Z and will begin to appear on our brand new website. Most of our old Committee minutes, scorebooks and other items are in the County Archives at Winchester and having ceased to be a County Cricket Club 20+ years ago, there are no longer any minutes. There is much more to tell of course.
Hi, Dave. Good to hear this. If you'd like to hold forth at length about the situation at Hampshire -- "there is," as you say, "much more to tell" -- we'd be delighted to publish it.
Many thanks. The situation at Hampshire is of course unusual, although I suspect other counties will be moving away from the old members' model in the future and that has specific implications for historians. The other thing is that I think (?) we are unique as an international (English) ground without a Museum. What will the Aussies think?!! I'll be happy to add more but I have a feeling there will be some observations in an article in the new Wisden - I'll wait for that and then say more.
At Hampshire (2024) we are doing everything we can, entirely through volunteers. For example, we inherited the papers of my colleague and mentor Neil Jenkinson who kept paper files on almost every Hampshire cricketer. They are now organised alphabetically in folders in the Archive at the ground, informed my recent published A-Z and will begin to appear on our brand new website. Most of our old Committee minutes, scorebooks and other items are in the County Archives at Winchester and having ceased to be a County Cricket Club 20+ years ago, there are no longer any minutes. There is much more to tell of course.
Hi, Dave. Good to hear this. If you'd like to hold forth at length about the situation at Hampshire -- "there is," as you say, "much more to tell" -- we'd be delighted to publish it.
Many thanks. The situation at Hampshire is of course unusual, although I suspect other counties will be moving away from the old members' model in the future and that has specific implications for historians. The other thing is that I think (?) we are unique as an international (English) ground without a Museum. What will the Aussies think?!! I'll be happy to add more but I have a feeling there will be some observations in an article in the new Wisden - I'll wait for that and then say more.