Collection: Special Collections - Loan

Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Emma' and 'Sense and Sensibility', Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet: 'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner'. This collection, which also includes poems by...

Documenting the wide variety of traffic on the busy section of the Eastleigh and Southampton railways.

On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were 30 emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's ship The Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 174...

First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had been seen before in terms of Southern Region electric multiple units. These stylish and sleek trains were the first electric multiple units capable of reaching 100mph, and after many years travelling on the old Southern...