A Soviet Design for Life
The University Library is delighted to launch our latest major exhibition, opening to the public today. A Soviet Design for Life: The Catherine Cooke Collection […]
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Royal Tour of the Commonwealth 1953-54
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee offers an excellent opportunity to celebrate her devoted service as Head of the Commonwealth, as reflected in the […]
Continue reading »Royal West African Frontier Force
The Journal of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) was launched in July 2011, filling a gap in the research literature. Published twice a […]
Continue reading »Historic Hong Kong
Six spectacular photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, taken c. 1900, were recently painstakingly conserved by Nicholas Burnett and colleagues at Museum Conservation Services at Duxford, […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ II
Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]
Continue reading »‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’
This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]
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