Society News
July 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 19th Jul 2026 by David Taylor
July Newsletter We have heard recently about the passing of ex-player Peter Higham. Peter was the last surviving link with the title winning teams of 1949 and 1950, joining the club from the Royal Marines. Peter’s funeral was in Southport this wee …
June 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 29th Jun 2026 by David Taylor
June Newsletter Hope you are having a good summer. The transfer window opens soon and it isn't long until the fixtures are out this month. The new season will be upon us very soon but there is just the small matter of the World Cup to watch first! …
Visit to the Mary Rose
Posted on 26th Jun 2026 by David Taylor
Members only offer, Mary Rose Tour As advised in our June newsletter, we have laid on a special tour around the Mary Rose with PHS committee member Greg Hills and his colleagues. Greg runs tours at the Mary Rose Trust and often dresses …
April 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 23rd Jun 2026 by David Taylor
April Newsletter Easter Greetings to you all. It was a busy time at PHS in the run up to Easter with much deliberation about the Hall of Fame dinner and its subsequent postponement. It just wasn’t going to work with it being Easter Sunday and havi …
March 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 23rd Jun 2026 by David Taylor
Greetings to all, it was good to see many of you at our evening with Paul Wood a couple of weeks ago. Many thanks to Paul for coming all the way from Bournemouth (as did one of our members, Tim Farmer, despite having a bad knee - thanks Tim!) and a g …
May 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 23rd Jun 2026 by David Taylor
May Newsletter The season’s over! And we can now hopefully look forward to some decent transfer news and of course the World Cup. Regarding events for our members, there are three items to mention this month. Firstly, our Alan Biley eve …
Evening with Paul Wood
Posted on 10th Feb 2026 by David Taylor
Paul Wood, proclaimed as a born ‘star’ by Pompey manager Alan Ball in 1985 and who had two spells at Fratton Park, will be the subject of the next ‘Evening With’ series by the Pompey History Society later this month. The event is on We …
February 2026 Newsletter
Posted on 2nd Feb 2026 by David Taylor
February Newsletter As this is our first newsletter of 2026, can we start by wishing you a belated “happy new year”. We might not have sent out a January newsletter but we have still been busy! Having achieved our Peter Harris medal appeal targe …
Peter Harris medal target reached
Posted on 19th Dec 2025 by David Taylor
Pompey legend Peter Harris’s two championship medals from 1949 and 1950 are now in the Pompey History Society’s archive after its 15-month campaign to raise £25,000 to buy them before the centenary of his birth on December 19 came to a suc …
Curry Night success
Posted on 3rd Dec 2025 by David Taylor
A Pompey-themed curry menu has helped the Pompey History Society close in on its £25,000 target to buy the championship medals of a club legend. The society’s campaign to raise £25,000 to buy Peter Harris’s medals from 1949 and 1950 raised aro …
