Royal Commonwealth Society – Page 5 – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Shanghai and the May 30th Movement: guest post by Elena Fulgheri

Posted on 11 March 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is very grateful to our colleague, Elena Fulgheri, for a guest post inspired by our most recent release on Cambridge […]

Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Glass plates of Oceania, South Asia, the Far East and Africa

Posted on 18 February 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is delighted to announce its third release of approximately 700 photographic glass plates and lantern slides on Cambridge Digital Library. […]

Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Watercolours of 19th-century Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Mauritius and the Channel Islands

Posted on 5 February 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has published a detailed on-line catalogue for one of its largest and most historically significant art collections, RCMS 40. It […]

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Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary

Posted on 18 October 2018 by John C.

This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Missionary journey to Uganda in 1900

Posted on 6 August 2018 by John C.

One of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s most atmospheric collections of artwork (RCMS 158) was created by Annie Emma Allen (1853-1942), who documented her journey to […]

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Australian birds

Posted on 5 July 2018 by John C.

The beauty and diversity of Australia’s birds are vividly captured in one of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s most colourful collections of artwork (RCMS 278/7). […]

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Digitisation of Sukkur Bridge photograph album

Posted on 8 June 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library’s recent purchase at auction of a splendid presentation album of photographs (Y30244A), celebrating the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks

Posted on 12 April 2018 by Sabrina Meneghini

In October 1907 the British artist Alfred Hugh Fisher started his journey around the British empire on behalf of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee […]

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Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet

Posted on 9 March 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published images of approximately 1,500 historic photographs on Cambridge Digital Library. These photographs, our most ambitious release to-date, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society