Our Spotify channel UoS CEEES has a new podcast from Friday's event on 'migrations' - please do give it a listen! School of Humanities at University of Southampton open.spotify.com/episode/25zCbp…

This lunchtime event is open to everyone, not just members of the University

Parkes Institute

For #EYANature we share a beautiful photograph of a coral in flower from the Honor Frost Collection. Honor Frost was a maritime archaeologist. Find out more about her and her collection here: archives.soton.ac.uk/records/MS439 Explore Your Archive Honor Frost Foundation Archaeology | Southampton

72 years ago today, the University of Southampton received its royal charter, making it the first university of the new Elizabethan age. Here is a part of the University charter. #ExploreYourArchives Historic Southampton Visit Southampton Southampton Sotonians and Friends

On 16 June 1851 a William Briggs wrote to Wellington about a planting #EYANature ceremony at Sheffield Botanical Gardens Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield archives.soton.ac.uk/records/MS61/W… - the ash tree he planted came from Hougoumont at Waterloo and is thriving still
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Check out this week's blog post which focuses on the correspondence and papers we hold on philanthropist, Mary Clubwala Jadhav in the Mountbatten Papers. Explore Your Archive
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Your annual reminder that Southampton's weather is not always spring-like in April. This was Western Esplanade on 25th April 1908!

Call for papers for the Wellington Congress 2025
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies The Long Nineteenth-Century Network Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies EHU Nineteen London C19 Studies
Proposals are invited for papers on the wider context in Britain, Ireland, the Empire and Continental Europe, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Something from the papers of Milton Leitenberg concerning climate change published in 1999 #ClimateEmergency archives.soton.ac.uk/records/MS355/…
History Begins at Home #HBAHGreen

To mark #EarthDay 2024, we share the front of ‘The Earth Summit: Retrospect and Prospect’ paper by Peter Calvert, former University of Southampton Professor of Comparative and International Politics. This paper is part of our Mountbatten Centre for International Studies collection!

April’s #DocumentOfTheMonth is a photograph of Sefer Torah scrolls from the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, April-June 1887. The digital positive is from a rare Eastman paper negative taken by Frank Haes. #AngloJewishHistory #HistoricPhotography #PaperNegative #GeorgeEastman

To mark Passover, we share a receipt of thanks for a parcel delivered by the Jewish Servicemen's Passover and Religious Welfare Fund, coordinated by Chief Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld's Religious Emergency Council in 1945. archives.soton.ac.uk/records/MS183 Jewish Museum London Hidden Treasures

To mark #EarthDay2024 we share here a photograph of a tree planting by the Plant Propagator's Society outside the Murray Building at the University of Southampton Highfield Campus, 1988. Explore Your Archive

A 1946 edition of 'School Nature Study', #HBAHGreen the official organ of the School Nature Study Union, encouraging us to 'See and admire; not harm or destroy' #EYANature - from the papers of mathematics lecturer Annie Mary Trout: archives.soton.ac.uk/records/MS112

A postcard sent in 1918, showing the view from the roof of Southampton’s South Western Hotel. To the left of Queen’s Park are the remains of The Beach, the tree-lined waterfront walk, laid out in the 18th century. Historic Southampton Southampton Sotonians and Friends Southampton Stories Southampton Hidden History

Proposals for the Wellington Congress to be with us by the end of next month.
Please share with colleagues who may not have seen the call for papers.
Your re-tweets are appreciated!
Marcus Cribb
Charles Joseph Esdaile
Rob Griffith
Rory Muir
Jacqueline Reiter
Dr Zack White

Through @britishacademy_, the Honor Frost Foundation funds small grants of up to £10,000 for maritime archaeology projects worldwide. Deadline is approaching! For more information follow this link: ow.ly/t3og50RgQxm

Check out our latest blog post, featuring MA Archaeology student, Ma Xiu and her work on transcribing the field logbooks of maritime archaeologist, Honor Frost! Honor Frost Foundation Explore Your Archive #Archaeology
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A view of the lake in the grounds of Wrotham Hall, the home of the Earl of Strafford - the banks are mostly lined with trees and shrubs, including many rhododendrons in flower #HBAHGreen Explore Your Archive

A busy day at Kingsland Market in the 1920s. On the left the mock Tudor frontage of the Kingsland Picture Theatre can be seen whilst further down the road on the right is the Primitive Methodist Chapel. Historic Southampton Southampton Sotonians and Friends Southampton Stories Southampton Hidden History