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ADC Theatre Archive

Posted on 21 January 2016 by Special Collections

A project to catalogue the archive of the ADC Theatre has recently been completed and the catalogue is now available online. The ADC Theatre is […]

Archives, New on Janus

‘These tremendous years’

Posted on 18 January 2016 by John C.

This is the evocative title of a photograph collection, Y3062S, recently added by The Royal Commonwealth Society Library to our online catalogue Janus. Its creator […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Crowd-sourcing the archives of women’s rowing

Posted on 14 January 2016 by Jacky Cox

Question: how do you write the history of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club when the records in the club’s possession are scanty for the early […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, New on Janus

Posted on 27 November 2015 by Frank

Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]

Archives, New on Janus

Skipping on Parker's Piece (MS Add. 7515)

Cambridgeshire customs on camera

Posted on 7 October 2015 by Special Collections

Guest post by Stephen Roberts. The Eastern Counties Folklore Society was established at a meeting held in Cambridge on 18 November 1932, to investigate, collect […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Photographs, Special Collections

‘It’s all in a day’s work’: the Royal Greenwich Observatory Audio-Visual Collection, Stories of Observatory Life

Posted on 21 September 2015 by Dr Emma Saunders

For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. Observing distant stars, recording sunspots, […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus, Special Collections

‘World’s loneliest white man’

Posted on 28 August 2015 by John C.

This was the headline of an American newspaper describing the British planter William French (1897-1960), who had greeted an American Museum of Natural History South […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Board of Graduate Studies 1920-55

Posted on 6 August 2015 by Jacky Cox

A project is under way in the University Archives to sort, clean and list the early student files of the Board of Graduate Studies or […]

Archives, Cambridge University Archives, New on Janus

Victorian Celebrities

Posted on 14 July 2015 by John C.

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 […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

New catalogues published on Janus

Posted on 9 July 2015 by Frank

Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]

Archives, Manuscripts, New on Janus

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