Introduction--Miles Taylor * From spa to garrison town: Southampton during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars--John Oldfield * The Earl of Carnarvon: Highclere, Hampshire and empire--Bruce Knox * Southampton and the making of an imperial myth: David Livingstone's remains--Joanna Lewis * All roads lead to London . or elsewhere: Southampton as a gateway to artistic success--Anne Anderson * Hampshire Gothic: the ruin, regeneration and apocalypse of Netley Abbey--Philip Hoare * Gordon of Khartoum: reluctant son of Southampton--Miles Taylor * Anglo-Saxons, empire and English national identity: the King Alfred anniversary of 1901--Paul Readman * The Titanic and the port of Southampton--Stephanie Barczewski * Going to war: Southampton and military embarkation--Ian Beckett * Southampton, the great war and the cinema--Mike Hammond * A vision unfulfilled: Southampton's ambition for the world's first 'sea aerodrome'--Adrian Smith*Not that far ?: remembering and forgetting cosmopolitan Southampton in the 20th century -- Tony Kushner * Index Introduction--Miles Taylor * From spa to garrison town: Southampton during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars--John Oldfield * The Earl of Carnarvon: Highclere, Hampshire and empire--Bruce Knox * Southampton and the making of an imperial myth: David Livingstone's remains--Joanna Lewis * All roads lead to London . or elsewhere: Southampton as a gateway to artistic success--Anne Anderson * Hampshire Gothic: the ruin, regeneration and apocalypse of Netley Abbey--Philip Hoare * Gordon of Khartoum: reluctant son of Southampton--Miles Taylor * Anglo-Saxons, empire and English national identity: the King Alfred anniversary of 1901--Paul Readman * The Titanic and the port of Southampton--Stephanie Barczewski * Going to war: Southampton and military embarkation--Ian Beckett * Southampton, the great war and the cinema--Mike Hammond * A vision unfulfilled: Southampton's ambition for the world's first 'sea aerodrome'--Adrian Smith*Not that far ?: remembering and forgetting cosmopolitan Southampton in the 20th century -- Tony Kushner * Index.