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The University of Southampton have acquired the archive of the Templeton, Ashley and Mountbatten familes.
One of the most significant archives in private ownership, it includes the papers of the Victorian Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston; social reformer, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and the last Viceroy of India, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The 4,500 boxes of official papers, personal correspondence, diaries and photographs offer unprecedented insights into major political, diplomatic, social and economic events that shaped Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.