University of Southampton Special Collections
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The Special Collections houses archive and named printed and rare book collections at the Hartley Library, University of Southampton.
Southampton, England
Joined September 2018
Our reading room is open Tuesdays-Thursdays 10am-4pm and we also offer digital appointments on Mondays and Fridays! Check out online catalogue to explore our treasures!
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11 July is the UN’s World Population Day - we hold in our archives a few letters by Malthus - the influential political economist who wrote on population trends – he writes on reform of tithes and land tax @explorearchives.
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To mark the start of Southampton’s Global Jane Austen Conference here is a view of Lansdowne Castle, which would have been a very familiar sight to the Austens living in Castle Square in the early 19th century. @HistoricalSoton @SotonianHistory @SotonStories @SouthamptonHid1
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Well wedding season is well and truly upon us! .And here we have a lovely letter from Montague Moss @MossBros regarding the plans for his wedding at the West London Synagogue in 1955. "Awning is definitely required"!.We bet the suits were divine!
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Nat Mills & Bobbie, "The Rare Pair," were a British husband & wife comedy duo, who performed from the 1920s to the '50s. It's believed they popularised the song "There's a Hole in My Bucket" The correspondence is part of the West London Synagogue archives:
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Do you remember UoS staff summer events from years gone by. ? .These photographs show the Staff Club summer ball from July 1989. We wonder if anyone who attended still work at the University today? .@unisouthampton @UoSMedia
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It's the second week of #Wimbledon and we hope you're all enjoying some great #tennis. This photo shows the University tennis team from around 1921.
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5/5 "I have not yet received the chocolate though you have sent it".And we'll have to leave you hanging regarding Harry and his chocolate: this is the last letter in this series. We hope it arrived!
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4/5 "Pray send me some more chocolate. Our store is almost exhausted. We have not one cake left. Only a poor half.".He may have his chocolate pot but poor Harry is now out of chocolate! Will his mother send him more?!
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3/5 Thank goodness, it's arrived! "I received the chocolate pot this morning, it is a very good large one, just the thing." He writes to let his mother Mary know the good news.
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2/5 As he writes again later stating "I have not yet received the chocolate pot"
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1/5 "I would be much obliged to you if you would send me a chocolate pot as I cannot get one here" . In 1798, Harry (later Lord Palmerston) writes to his mum from Harrow aged 14. #WorldChocolateDay
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One of the novelty postcards from the Peter Cook Collection, this ‘pull out’ postcard from 1919 features a small flap which when lifted reveals a strip of views of Southampton. @HistoricalSoton @SotonianHistory @SotonStories @SouthamptonHid1
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Last Friday we caught up with Louis Samuel Montagu and his travels through Japan - on this day in 1896 he was sheltering from the Kyoto rain by watching wrestling competitions, complete with ceremonial displays of wrestlers wearing gold brocade aprons #EYATravel @explorearchives.
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Welcome to Liz who joins us today for a summer internship. Liz will be with us throughout July working on correspondence of Queen Victoria.
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June’s @explorearchives theme is #EYATravel – on this day in 1896 Louis Samuel Montagu visited the Buddhist temple of Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto and was very impressed – it's now designated a World Heritage Site
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#OnThisDay in 1947 "The Diary of a Yong Girl" was first published. It has since been published in more than 70 languages and is better know as The Diary of Anne Frank .The Special Collections holds papers of the Anne Frank Trust
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#OnThisDay in 1900, Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma was born.His archive contains a wealth of material, both private and official, covering the whole of his life .Find out more in our online catalogue
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20 June is World Refugee Day – to mark this occasion we simply share the link to our webpage for archives on Refugees and Migration, of which we have many:
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Just the day for a walk on the pier! Renovated in the 1890s Southampton’s Royal Pier was then the largest in the south of England. Covering three and a half acres, it provided landing stages for ten steamers. @HistoricalSoton @SotonianHistory @SotonStories @SouthamptonHid1
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#OnThisDay in 1815.To mark the anniversary of the battle we focus on one of the soldiers who fought on that day. We remember Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ferrior by means of a letter to his brother. It was to be his last as he died at Waterloo.
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