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Queen Mary’s South Asian tour scrapbooks, 1905-1906

Posted on 6 December 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has digitised a fascinating series of scrapbooks documenting the Royal Visit to India in 1905-06 by the Prince and Princess […]

Burma, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Railways, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: It’s not all about pretty pixels

Posted on 20 September 2019 by Special Collections

The Digital Content Unit (DCU) is the Library department responsible for the digitisation of special collections and the creation of other audio-visual content. The earliest […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

The Falkland Islands and South Georgia

Posted on 10 September 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just released four collections of photographs, artwork and maps relating to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on Cambridge […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California

Posted on 14 May 2019 by James Freeman

Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections, Uncategorized

Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887

Posted on 10 May 2019 by Dr Emma Saunders

To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Science, Travel

Caribbean photographs

Posted on 8 May 2019 by John C.

The most recent release of Royal Commonwealth Society photographs on Cambridge Digital Library takes us to the Caribbean. We’re delighted that virtually all Commonwealth members […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introduction to Conservation

Posted on 1 April 2019 by CUL Conservation

Cambridge University Libraries (CUL) has recently launched a two-year collaborative project with the University of Heidelberg. The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project aims to preserve, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Greek, Manuscripts, Polonsky Greek

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Illustration, Royal Commonwealth Society

Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean

Posted on 6 December 2018 by CUL Conservation

by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Collection Care, Conservation, Digitisation, Friends of Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Polonsky Greek, Special Collections

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

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