NEWS, EVENTS AND CONFERENCE 2009
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The Broadlands Archives.
Special Collections Gallery, Level 4, Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield.
The Broadlands Archives are one of the University Library's foremost collections of manuscripts. Centred on the Temple (Palmerston), Ashley, Cassel and Mountbatten families, the archive contains some 4,500 boxes of papers, from the sixteenth century to the present. Major items on show include papers for the foundation of the states of India and Pakistan, Lord Palmerston's correspondence with Queen Victoria, and material for politics, society and conversation, philanthropy and social reform. A further section looks at the Temple and Ashley estates in Hampshire and Ireland.
Dates: 25 January - 16 April 2010
Opening times: Mon-Fri 10.00-16.00 Additional opening dates: Saturday 20 February and Saturday 20 March, 10.00-16.00 Private View: Thurs 4th March 2010, 5-7 pm, free, all welcome.
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Visiting Fellowship Applications in partnership with the University of Southampton
Applications are invited for 1-3 month visiting fellowships at Chawton House Library (CHL) to be taken up between October 2010 and the end of August 2011. The deadline for completed applications for these fellowships is May 30th 2010. All Fellows will be offered accommodation in the Elizabethan Stable Block at CHL, and office space in the main Library building. They will become visiting fellows in the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton, a privilege that grants access to both electronic and archival resources at the Hartley Library.
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Chawton House estate has been restored to how it would have looked in Jane Austen's time.