== Current state of development == 

 Well the book I've been referring to is about to go back to the library for a while, so probably not too many more major additions from me at this time. There's still a quite a lot more that could be added to this page on Southamptons History, but I need to put it to one side for a while, giving the page a chance to settle and be assessed if anybody wants to initiate that. I've been concentrating on the structure of this page, using "see also" where I know that the history is documented in other articles: there's no need to repeat it all here. Generally, I've been trying to cover the whole history of Southampton in an Encyclopedia-like way, not just the well-known bits that everybody knows from the Tourist guides. I've no idea what the consensus is on how successful this exercise has been, but I think that this page is now sufficiently different from the History section in the main page on Southampton for it to be a lot more obvious where to put any new information - eliminating the problem that first got me started on this series of revisions. I suggest that the fullest detail should go in this separate History page, whilst we actively restrict any new material in the main page on Southampton to a fairly brief overview - if it is of sufficient importance, it might not need to go in the main article at all. I'll obviously keep an eye on these pages via my watchlist. Do message me if any questions, I might not be contributing so much for a while, but that doesn't mean I don't care or that I'm not interested.  .