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Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Special Collections

Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: Home of the East Asian Collections at the University of Cambridge On 8 June, 1998, Lord Broers, then […]

Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Japanese, Library history, Special Collections

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

Pembroke College’s Benefactors’ Book

Posted on 1 June 2018 by James Freeman

A guest post from Jonathan Nathan, who is studying for his PhD in History. He is investigating the circulation of underground atheist literature through pre-modern […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Pembroke College

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

Photographs of India

Posted on 19 December 2017 by John C.

The latest release of photographs published on Cambridge Digital Library by the Royal Commonwealth Society department includes a large selection of historic prints of India, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides

Posted on 12 December 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published on Cambridge Digital Library its second release of approximately 1,000 photographic glass plates and lantern slides, made […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Rebinding the Red Book of Thorney

Posted on 8 December 2017 by CUL Conservation

By Shaun Thompson The Red Book of Thorney is an early fourteenth-century cartulary originally from Thorney Abbey in Cambridgeshire. It was donated to Cambridge University […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Collection Care, Conservation, Digital Resources, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts

The Digital Recovery of a Lost Page of Codex Bezae

Posted on 14 November 2017 by James Freeman

A guest post by Elijah Hixson. Elijah is currently finishing his PhD on 6th-century Greek manuscripts of the Gospels at the University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge Digital Library, Christian Works, Manuscripts, Uncategorized

Royal Commonwealth Society glass negatives and lantern slides

Posted on 23 October 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is thrilled to publish on Cambridge Digital Library the first release of its photographic glass plates, generously funded by a […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

‘The Tweed’ in Colombo Harbour, 1888

Posted on 2 October 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is thrilled to have acquired a beautiful historical painting from John Weatherstone, who has already generously donated much of the […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

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