Wilfred Court’s slide collection now digitised
Over 2,200 colour slides documenting the work and travels of the architect Wilfred Court in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon in the 1950s […]
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Cutting up the archive: reflections on the CVC fellowship
In October 2023, CVC fellows Kerstin Hacker and Sana Ginwalla ran a workshop at Cambridge University Library (CUL) entitled ‘Putting our resources to work: transforming […]
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Voices from SANAC
In partnership with the University of Cape Town and the Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) research initiative, Cambridge University Library has recently digitised Sir Godfrey […]
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New additions to the RCS archive catalogue
16 new collections have been added to the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) archive catalogue over the past year. These range from single photograph albums and […]
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Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission
Post by Chloe Rushovich, Engagement and Communities Officer, RCS Carnegie Project As a part of a shared digital curation project, Creating New Connections, Cambridge University […]
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Transtemporal at the University Library
This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]
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Classroom photographic journeys: the Alfred Hugh Fisher Collection
This guest post is by Dr Sabrina Meneghini, Associate Lecturer in Photographic History & Archival Heritage at Milan’s CFP Bauer. Sabrina recently completed her PhD […]
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Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection
Last term Cambridge University Library welcomed a group of second-year photography students from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), as part of […]
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Shared digital curation of southern African collections
Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]
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Unpublished manuscripts of Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is thrilled to report that it has been donated the unpublished manuscripts of the important Kenyan journalist and writer Henry […]
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