Australia – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Australian birds

Posted on 5 July 2018 by John C.

The beauty and diversity of Australia’s birds are vividly captured in one of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s most colourful collections of artwork (RCMS 278/7). […]

Royal Commonwealth Society

Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks

Posted on 12 April 2018 by Sabrina Meneghini

In October 1907 the British artist Alfred Hugh Fisher started his journey around the British empire on behalf of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet

Posted on 9 March 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published images of approximately 1,500 historic photographs on Cambridge Digital Library. These photographs, our most ambitious release to-date, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Royal Commonwealth Society glass negatives and lantern slides

Posted on 23 October 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is thrilled to publish on Cambridge Digital Library the first release of its photographic glass plates, generously funded by a […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

‘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