Hello Folks, Thought this message from the Hampshire Genealogical Society may interest some of you. COMING TO HAMPSHIRE Visit an exhibition in Southampton this autumn and add your footsteps to those of students and tourists, naturalists and painters, exiles and refugees, who came to Hampshire in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Well known as a beautiful maritime county of 'great natural advantages', Hampshire has been visited, explored, and adopted by a vast range of people. They came to learn at a new university; to take the waters, or a picturesque tour; to admire the natural and physical beauties of the county - its flowers, animals, geology, meteorology. Where did they visit? How did they travel? Who were they? Not all visitors came by choice. The ports of Hampshire have welcomed many exiles and refugees over time that fled their homelands due to political and religious difficulties. This exhibition takes a look at those who arrived, and the Hampshire they found, using examples from the archives and special collections at the University of Southampton. 'Coming to Hampshire' runs from 15 October to 7 December 2007 The Special Collections Gallery, level 4, Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ Entrance is free to all Opening hours are 10.00 until 16.00, Monday to Friday For more information please contact the Archives and Special Collections Tel: 023 8059 2721 Email: [email protected] Web: www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk