Photographs – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Transtemporal at the University Library

Posted on 19 May 2023 by Sally Kent

This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Classroom photographic journeys: the Alfred Hugh Fisher Collection

Posted on 18 April 2023 by Liam Sims

This guest post is by Dr Sabrina Meneghini, Associate Lecturer in Photographic History & Archival Heritage at Milan’s CFP Bauer. Sabrina recently completed her PhD […]

Exhibitions, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, Special Collections

Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection

Posted on 17 February 2023 by Sally Kent

Last term Cambridge University Library welcomed a group of second-year photography students from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), as part of […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Polar exploration

Posted on 23 February 2022 by John C.

Work is continuing in the Royal Commonwealth Society Library department to catalogue its collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pamphlets and magazine articles. The latest volume to […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections, Travel, World War Two

Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John Pickles and Alison Taylor

Posted on 1 October 2021 by Anne Taylor

Richard Relhan’s topographical drawings, with a date range of 1797-1838, are an expressive record of buildings and the countryside in a period immediately preceding immense […]

Architecture, Cambridge Digital Library, Map Department, Photographs, Special Collections

Pamphlets of 19th-century New Zealand

Posted on 1 July 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library department’s efforts to discover its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets have turned to New Zealand, and a large number of […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Pamphlets of nineteenth-century China

Posted on 13 April 2021 by John C.

At Cambridge University Library, the Royal Commonwealth Society Department continues to push ahead with the discovery of its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets. Recent work has […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Pamphlets of late nineteenth-century British Colonial Africa

Posted on 5 February 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has added more than 600 pamphlets and periodical articles relating to late nineteenth-century British Colonial Africa to the library’s electronic […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Pamphlets of nineteenth-century India

Posted on 1 December 2020 by John C.

Late nineteenth-century British India forms the latest subject of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s work to discover its collection of rare pamphlets and periodical articles. […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Nineteenth-century Australian pamphlets

Posted on 12 October 2020 by John C.

Work to discover the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets has focused recently upon Australia. We are delighted to announce that more […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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