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Winter wonders: sporting fun
Now that it’s December, we’ll be taking a look at some winter-related themes on the blog, starting this week with winter sports. Most of the activities that we now think of as winter sports arose from necessity thousands of years … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collections, Printed Collections
Tagged Henry John Temple, Herbert M. Adler, skating, ski-ing, sledging, Winter sports
University Developments Through Time: Sports Facilities
Welcome to the first in the series of Special Collections blog posts that chart developments at the University through the themes of sporting facilities, the grounds, Rag, and the Hartley Institution’s museum. This week, we focus on the development of … Continue reading
National Sporting Heritage Day: Sport Sources in Printed Special Collections
To mark National Sporting Heritage Day, we take a look at the sources we hold on Sport in Hampshire in our Printed Collections. The sources can be found in our Cope Collection, which is a major resource for the study … Continue reading
Posted in Printed Collections
Tagged Cope Collection, Hampshire, Peter Cook Postcard Collection, Southampton, Sport
SUSU Sport – making history
Are you a member or supporter of Team Southampton ? You are making history! Generations of students and staff – men and women – have built a strong sporting tradition at Southampton and you are following in their footsteps. In 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collections, Printed Collections
Tagged Boat Club, Hampshire, Heritage, Netball, Sport, Students, University of Southampton
A passport to summer…
This week, a recently catalogued item in Special Collections has set us thinking about summer travel abroad – in the past as well as the present. Hidden inside this brightly coloured wallet is a nineteenth-century British passport. It is a … Continue reading
60 years in the city: the University and the City of Southampton
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of Southampton gaining city status, in this Special Collections blog we will look at the development of the University since 1964 and its links with its home city. The formation of the Hartley Institution, the … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collections, Printed Collections
Tagged University of Southampton
2023 – a year in review
As we move into the new year we take time to look back over 2023 and reflect on the work of Archives and Special Collections in the last twelve months. Wellington 40 2023 was a significant year for the Archives … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Exhibitions and Events, Manuscript Collections, Printed Collections, Special Collections service, Special projects
Tagged Anglo-Jewish Archives, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, Hands-on Humanities, Honor Frost, maritime archaeology, Rollo Woods, University of Southampton, Wellington Papers
Palmerston: M is for Mexico
As we reach the fourth in our P-A-L-M-E-R-S-T-O-N series we turn to M for Mexico and a not particularly glorious chapter in European-Mexican relations. Having declared independence in 1821, Mexico was firstly a short-lived monarchy before adopting a republican constitution … Continue reading
Posted in Manuscript Collections
Tagged Henry John Temple, Mexico, Napoleon III, Third Viscount Palmerston
Spotlight on collections: Med Soc 1980s style
It is that time again, as the start of the academic year approaches. And the new intake of students are faced with nearly 250 student societies and 142 sports clubs from which to choose. What would be your choice? For … Continue reading
User Perspectives: Charlie Knight on the Papers of Theodor Hirschberg
This week’s blog takes the “user’s perspective” format; we hear from Charlie Knight, Wolfson PhD Scholar in the Humanities, at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, who has conducted extensive research on the MS314 Papers of Theodor … Continue reading
![Men's football team, 1953-4 [photo_MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50089268168_f26eed63ef_s.jpg "Men's football team, 1953-4 [photo_MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Women's rowing team, 1961-2 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50090079577_3b7acbde42_s.jpg "Women's rowing team, 1961-2 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Men's rugby team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50089268523_4f2c587220_s.jpg "Men's rugby team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
![Women's hockey team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50090079692_28114e9c7d_s.jpg "Women's hockey team, 1953-4 [MS1_7_291_22_4]")
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