Papua New Guinea at 50: the papers of Francis West
Earlier this month, on 16th September 2025, Papua New Guinea celebrated the 50th anniversary of its independence. Prior to 1975, the Territory of Papua and […]
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Correspondence of Walter Buchanan-Smith from Borneo and Nigeria
Walter Buchanan-Smith (1879-1944) was in many ways an archetypal British colonial administrator: privately educated, a keen sportsman, a lover of dogs and ponies, and quickly […]
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Transtemporal at the University Library
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 […]
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Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection
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 […]
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Shared digital curation of southern African collections
Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]
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Unpublished manuscripts of Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is thrilled to report that it has been donated the unpublished manuscripts of the important Kenyan journalist and writer Henry […]
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Polar exploration
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 […]
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New voice from women’s internment camps, Singapore, 1943-1945
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is extremely grateful to our colleagues at The Salvation Army Archives, Canada and Bermuda Territory, for helping to enrich our […]
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Pamphlets of 19th-century New Zealand
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 […]
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Pamphlets of nineteenth-century China
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 […]
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