Tom Hardiman | Portsmouth Athenaeum

Portsmouth’s changing vistas

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 17, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs

By Keeper Tom Hardiman Recently Sherry Wood wrote an article about how the Vaughan Street Urban Renewal Project removed neighborhoods and rerouted streets to create the Bridge Street parking lot. While some Portsmouth vistas have been altered suddenly and...

Message from a lost colony

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 11, 2020 | Announcements, Manuscripts

By Keeper Tom Hardiman In 2011, the Portsmouth Athenaeum received a remarkable bequest from the estate of long-time Athenaeum Proprietor Dudley Stoddard (1915-2009). Dudley descended from Portsmouth’s Warner family, and he left to the Athenaeum a collection of...

Book Launch for Athenaeum Keeper Tom Hardiman

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Apr 11, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Friday, April 19, 2019 5:30 p.m. Reading Room Money, Revolution, & Books: A multi-generational perspective on the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s Library of John Fisher of London By Thomas Hardiman Jr. John Fisher’s name appears in many history books, but his...