Construction of Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, 1885-1889
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to have acquired at auction a stunning presentation album commemorating the opening on 25 March 1889 of the […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to have acquired at auction a stunning presentation album commemorating the opening on 25 March 1889 of the […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have published a detailed catalogue description for a fascinating album of photographs taken during the South African War (1899-1902), Y3058H. […]
Continue reading »A guest post by Jasmin Daam, University of Kassel The emergence of tourism, i.e. an organised way of travelling, in the second half of the […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have mounted an exhibition in the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library displaying some of the most significant items […]
Continue reading »The RCS Library is delighted to announce that a significant recent deposit of essays from The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition has been added to its […]
Continue reading »You may have seen here that in May this year I was awarded a Research Bursary from the Wellcome Trust. The award means that I am […]
Continue reading »This post is inspired by the set of Asante goldweights, boxes and scale currently on display in the Curious Objects exhibition, which celebrates the Library’s […]
Continue reading »The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]
Continue reading »A guest post by Nikki Petroni, PhD candidate, University of Malta A few months ago, whilst casually searching through the online catalogue of the Royal […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have just added an on-line catalogue entry for a fascinating series of letters written from Civil War America by Edward […]
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