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, […]
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Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections in Cambridge University Library contain a very attractive collection of nineteenth century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil […]
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The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have uploaded an on-line catalogue for a visually rich recent acquisition, donated by the former planter John Weatherstone. Weatherstone was […]
Continue reading »Dr Vincenzo Vergiani will give a paper on ‘South Asian manuscript culture as represented in the Sanskrit collections of the University Library, Cambridge’. The talk […]
Continue reading »In the world in general mention of the Wright Brothers brings to mind the pioneers of controlled powered manned flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright. In […]
Continue reading »The Sanskrit Manuscripts Project, Cambridge, has recently launched its own website with full details about the project, news and features on some of the manuscripts […]
Continue reading »Since the first volume appeared in 1987 the University of Chicago’s History of Cartography series of monographs has become a standard and authoritative reference work […]
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