Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Queen Mary’s South Asian tour scrapbooks, 1905-1906

Posted on 6 December 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has digitised a fascinating series of scrapbooks documenting the Royal Visit to India in 1905-06 by the Prince and Princess […]

Burma, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Railways, Royal Commonwealth Society

Archive Management System update

Posted on 29 November 2019 by Special Collections

This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project at the University Library. It has been a very busy […]

Archives, Special Collections

Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition

Posted on 28 November 2019 by John C.

The Award Ceremony for the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was held at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on […]

Digital Resources, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

More Royal Commonwealth Society curious objects!

Posted on 15 November 2019 by John C.

Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Commonwealth Society had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition […]

New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Apart … together

Posted on 12 November 2019 by Special Collections

In a previous #PolonskyGreek project blogpost Conserving fragments, conservators discussed their work on the fragments; this blogpost describes how cataloguers can deal with the challenges […]

Conservation, Fragments, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods

Posted on 31 October 2019 by Emily Dourish

The Consortium of European Research Libraries recently held its annual seminar for 2019 in the Historisches Gebäude of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen under the […]

Digital Resources, Special Collections

Women in the theatre at Cambridge

Posted on 28 October 2019 by Special Collections

Post by Emily Perdue A recently catalogued item in Special Collections sheds some light on the role of women in Cambridge theatre. MS Additional 9610, […]

Archives, Photographs

Tea merchants coming ashore

Posted on 25 October 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is very happy to announce that it has purchased at auction another oil painting to add to its rich collection […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society