Victorian Celebrities
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection has published an on-line catalogue for a fascinating series of photographic portraits which were issued between 1888 and 1896 […]
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Cambridge Digital Library – July update
This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]
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British Malaya in the 1930s
The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have created an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, the archives of the railway engineer Hugh Murton Le Fleming. A […]
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Tea and coffee in India and Ceylon
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 »Ghana: Health and Nursing
In her third post highlighting pictorial records of Ghana in the Library’s Royal Commonwealth Society’s collections, RCS volunteer Francesca Issatt focusses on the Weston collection […]
Continue reading »Ghana: Our Days on the Gold Coast
The following post is the second in a series promoting the Library’s superb historic photographic collections of Ghana, which form part of the Royal Commonwealth […]
Continue reading »Archives of John Seymour Benson
The RCS has just created an on-line catalogue for a fascinating recent acquisition, the papers and photographs of the geologist and mining engineer John Seymour […]
Continue reading »Ghana, a photographic history: images of Achimota College
Michael John Fuller worked at the front desk in the main Reading Room of Cambridge University Library from June 1992 until his sudden death in […]
Continue reading »Cambridge University Press at War
A fascinating post about the activities of Cambridge University Press during World War I has been published on the Press’s blog, fifteeneightyfour. It’s written by […]
Continue reading »Dobinson Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have published an on-line catalogue of a recent acquisition: the photographs and archives of Henry and Phyllis Dobinson. Henry was […]
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