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Special Collections

Online exhibitions

Our current online exhibitions can be explored using the links below.

Los niños

Los niños

An exhibition focusing on child exiles of the Spanish civil war who arrived in Southampton in 1937.

 
University of Southampton

University of Southampton

An exhibition marking the diamond jubilee of Southampton being granted university status and the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Hartley Institution.

 
The Busaco dispatch

The Busaco despatch

An exhibition examining the despatch sent by Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, after the Battle of Busaco.

 
Arts in the Archives

Arts in the Archives

An exhibition looking at some of the key developments in the history of the arts at the University.

 
Turner Sims 50th

50th Anniversary of the Turner Sims

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Turner Sims Concert Hall, 1974-2024

 
Isle of Wight Exhibition Poster

Isle of Wight Exhibition

A passion for collecting, Raymond Turley and the Isle of Wight

 
Isle of Wight Exhibition Poster

Lord Palmerstone and the Broadlands Estate

"My day was not an idle one"

 
Palmerston Broadlands

Wellington 40

"Forty years of caring for the Wellington papers, 1983-2023"

 
Viceroy's view

The Mountbattens and the "transfer of power," 1947

The Viceroy's view

 
Discovery journey map

Between Ice and Ocean: 100 years of RRS Discovery

Celebrating the centenary of RRS Discovery

 
Hartley Library

Looking Back, Looking Forwards

Hartley Library Transformation

 
We Protest!

We Protest!

Violence and peaceful protests over two centuries

 
Habana

Remembering

Stories from the Basque child refugee archive

 
Music sheets

Music hath charms

The musical life of the university

 
Book

The Book, The Object

Transmitting texts from writer to reader

 
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