University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas at the UL
19–30 October 2011 The University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences, and is the only free festival of its […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Competition archive
A treasure-trove for historians and teachers Many school teachers will already be familiar with the Royal Commonwealth Society’s essay competition. Held annually, and open to […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is completing a detailed online description of the papers of the politician Hugh Childers (1827–1896). One of the most fascinating items […]
Continue reading »Historic Hong Kong
Six spectacular photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, taken c. 1900, were recently painstakingly conserved by Nicholas Burnett and colleagues at Museum Conservation Services at Duxford, […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ II
Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’
This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]
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