Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition: write around the world
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 […]
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Under the Microscope – Preliminary Investigations of the Changi Archive Conservation Research Project
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 […]
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Asante Goldweights
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 […]
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A letter of gratitude
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 […]
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Donald Bowen – Curator of the Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery
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 […]
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Letters from Civil War America
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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The History and Conservation of the John Weekley Changi Archives
The Changi project team have finished a major conservation challenge, the archives of John Weekley. In this post John Cardwell, Project Archivist and Emma Nichols, […]
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Sir Harold Smedley Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its most significant recent acquisitions, the papers of the diplomat […]
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Glimpses of early Siam and Burma [Thailand and Myanmar]
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the […]
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Christmas in Changi – The Result!
By Mary French and Emma Nichols Happy New Year from the Changi Conservators! Do you remember the Christmas Quiz from the Changi Guardian that we posed […]
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