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Arthuur Helps
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Arthur Helps

Bishops Waltham’s Debt to a Victorian Reformer and Social Entrepreneur In the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum, Fifth Avenue New York,

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Testwood House
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Cheating the Post Office

Letters sent by Royal Mail have always been paid for, but not by the privileged few. From 1652, Members of Parliament could send official letters

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Minute Book, No 2, of the Southampton Titanic Committee
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Southampton Archives

Southampton Archives are located in the basement of the south block of the Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LY, close to the Southampton Local History and Maritime

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The HRO strongroom contains the collections of 75 different families. The papers of the Jervoise family of Herriard Park alone are contained in 350 boxes (ref. 44M69).
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Private Archives

The world is awash with private archives. They are in solicitors’ offices, company HQs, in people’s houses and attics, and in village halls. Essentially, they

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