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Avenue 2020
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Avenue 2020

Building works often awake interest in the history of the place in question. The congregation of the St Andrew’s United Reformed Church in The Avenue,

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Raised in Winchester, fulfilled in Oxford, Annie Moberly (Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College, Oxford).
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Annie Moberley

Stern expressions, dark clothes, rectories the size of small palaces – these are all clues to what life was like for the middle class in

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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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