These Special Collections blogs highlight material in the Cope Collection and local sources held in the Broadlands and Wellington Archives.
All Hallow's Eve, All Saints and All Souls
Beware! Beware! Beware!: Wellington and Captain Swing
The Bridal Chest of Bramshill, or, A Ghost Tale from the Cope Collection
Cesspits and Salubrity in Southampton
The Chamberlayne Gas Column: Southampton's Movable Monument
Directing the Steps of Strangers: Guidebooks in the Cope Collection
"Everyone is in admiration of it": Visiting the Country House
Geological Excursions in Special Collections
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Travels
Hampshire's Home for 'Friendless and Fallen Women'
Hampshire's Local History Champions
Happy Birthday Henry Robinson Hartley
Happy Birthday To Capability Brown
Heywood Sumner: Artist and Archaeologist 1883-1940
Isaac Watts (1674-1748): Son of Southampton, Father of English Hymnology
National Sporting Heritage Day: Sport Sources in Printed Special Collections
"Peregrinations at the Most Beautiful Place on Earth": Holidaying on the Isle of Wight
Preserving and Conserving Illustrations from the Printed Collections
Richard Cockle Lucas 1800-1883: Talented Artist and Engaging Eccentric
Richard St Barbe Baker: Man of the Trees
Robert Morrison: his Chinese Dictionary and Hampshire Connections
Southampton Gordon Boys' Brigade
Spotlight on collections: the Cope Collection’s 19th-century periodicals
The Cope Handbills
Elections and Electioneering
Ghosts in the Strongroom
Jane Austen's Southampton
Lady Palmerston's Rewards of Industry
Pageant Fever
Refugees at Atlantic Park
A Relic of the Royal George
Southampton in the 1920s
The Stella Memorial
The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation
To Be Beside the Seaside
The 1918 Education Act and Herbert L. Fisher