New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]
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Papers of Sir Peter Scott
The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts have completed a box list of a recent addition to the papers of Peter Scott, the artist, conservationist […]
Continue reading »Max Aub: a Spanish intellectual in Mexico
Researchers of the life and work of Max Aub (Paris, 1903 – Mexico City, 1972) will be pleased to hear about a recent donation from […]
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The original red-eye: Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic
Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]
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Archive Management System update
This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. We’ve been working on costs and a business model for […]
Continue reading »Archival revolution: how born-digital archives are changing the way we do research
On Tuesday 28 May, at 2.15 p.m., Lise Jaillant will give a talk in the Milstein Room, University Library, West Road, on “Archival revolution: how […]
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Manuscripts from the Gayer-Anderson brothers
One of the most iconic items in the British Museum’s Egyptology collection is the bronze cat figurine commonly known as the ‘Gayer-Anderson cat’. It is […]
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Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California
Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]
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Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887
To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]
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Caribbean photographs
The most recent release of Royal Commonwealth Society photographs on Cambridge Digital Library takes us to the Caribbean. We’re delighted that virtually all Commonwealth members […]
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