As well as printed guides and catalogues of the collections in the Special Collections Division, also available are a series of publications based on conferences and projects relating to the collections held at Southampton.
These publications may be ordered through the University of Southampton online store. See the useful downloads section below for the table of contents for each volume.
Wellington Studies series
Edited by C.M.Woolgar
Wellington Studies I (1996) presents recent research on the military career of the first Duke of Wellington, in India, Ireland and the Peninsula, as well as examining the publication of Gurwood’s Dispatches and civil/military relations during the Napoleonic Wars. This volume marks the first in a series which will publish the fruits of work on the Wellington Papers at the University of Southampton Library.
Wellington Studies II (1999) presents recent research on the military career of the first Duke of Wellington, his place in military history, in India, Ireland, Denmark, the Peninsula and at Waterloo, as well as his despatches and official communication. This volume is the first of two collections of essays based on papers given at the Wellington Congress in July 1998, the fruits of work on the Wellington Papers at the University of Southampton Library and association collections.
Wellington Studies III (1999) concentrates on the first Duke of Wellington largely in the period after Waterloo. It includes essays on the Duke’s political career and his colleagues, literary tributes, the effects of celebrity, the Ultra Tories, the foreign policy of Wellington’s government and the Eastern Questions, the navy, political unions, the government of Ireland and the Corn Laws. This volume is the second of two collections of studies based on papers given at the Wellington Congress in July 1998, which presented work on the Wellington Papers at the University of Southampton Library and association collections.
Wellington Studies IV (2008) presents fourteen essays on the life and career of the first Duke of Wellington. These studies range widely over military, political and cultural aspects of the first half of the nineteenth century, from papers on siege warfare, politics and the Peninsular army, Wellington in portraits and caricature, the Duke’s government and long-term patterns of administration, the Navy in 1823-20, Catholic emancipation and Wellington’s relationship with the Ultras, through to foreign affairs and the Duke in conversation. The essays in this volume have their origins in contributions to the Wellington Congress held at the University of Southampton in July 2006, which focused on work on the Wellington Papers in the University Library there and associated collections.
Wellington Studies V (2013) contains eleven essays on the life and career of the first Duke of Wellington. Ranging from an overview of Britain and the wars of 1793-1815, to the Duke’s funeral, the volume encompasses essays on Wellington’s role in planning British military intervention; aspects of the Peninsular War; the Duke in print, in ballads and in Spain; post-war attitudes to Wellington and the army; the Ultra Tories and Wellington in the aftermath of Catholic emancipation; Wellington, Peel and the Conservatives; and the Duke and the Protectionists. Many of the essays in the volume have their origins in the Wellington Congress held at Southampton in the summer of 2010, an event that drew extensively on the first Dukes’ paper, held in the University of Southampton Library’s Special Collections Division.
Palmerston Studies series
Edited by D.Brown and M.Taylor
The third Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) was a colossus of the nineteenth-century political scene. Foreign Secretary for much of the 1830s and 1840s, Home Secretary in the early 1850s and twice Prime Minister in the final decade of his life, he left a profound impression on the period. Often caricatured as a paradoxical figure – a liberal abroad but conservative at home; the ‘last candle of the eighteenth century’ yet harbinger of late Victorian democracy – he was in fact more than the bellicose opportunist of legend and in many was helped to define the mid-Victorian generation. The essays in this collection, drawn from an international conference held at the University of Southampton in 2003, examine various aspects of that long career. They offer a variety of new and stimulating perspectives on one of modern Britain’s most important yet often misunderstood politicians.
Palmerston Studies I (2007) cover aspects of Lord Palmerston’s domestic career.
Palmerston Studies II (2007) looks at Lord Palmerston’s role in foreign policy.
Mountbatten on the Record
Edited by C.M.Woolgar
Mountbatten on the Record (1997) presents the fruits of a seminar sponsored by the Hartley Institute and held at the University of Southampton in April 1996. The aim was to offer a view of Lord Mountbatten's career in the period 1942-8, based on the experience of participants in the events, and of recent academic research, particularly, but not exclusively, founded on Lord Mountbatten's papers in the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton.
‘Here, Look After Him’: Voices of Basque Evacuee Children of the Spanish Civil War
Alicia Pozo-Guittérrez and Padmini Broomfield, 2012
I don’t want any wars, I don’t want anyone to go through what we went through, I don’t. You’re always left with the question of, ‘I wonder what my life would have been like’ ... My life would have been very different.
Juanita was evacuated to Britain in 1937, along with nearly 4,000 other children, fleeing the Spanish Civil War. In this book, some of these ‘children’ reflect on how events shaped their lives, from evacuation to repatriation or settling down in the UK, and their overwhelming sense of gratitude towards the ordinary British people who funded and cared for them. This book is their story in their own words.