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Nineteenth-century Australian pamphlets

Posted on 12 October 2020 by John C.

Work to discover the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets has focused recently upon Australia.  We are delighted to announce that more […]

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Queensland, Australia

Posted on 14 February 2020 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to announce the publication, on Cambridge Digital Library, of three very interesting collections relating to nineteenth-century Queensland, Australia.  […]

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More Royal Commonwealth Society curious objects!

Posted on 15 November 2019 by John C.

Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Commonwealth Society had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition […]

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New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society

Completion of Royal Commonwealth Society glass plate project!

Posted on 2 April 2019 by John C.

This blog celebrates the completion of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s glass plate digitisation project, which over the last three years, has seen the release […]

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Glass plates of Oceania, South Asia, the Far East and Africa

Posted on 18 February 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is delighted to announce its third release of approximately 700 photographic glass plates and lantern slides on Cambridge Digital Library.  […]

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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).  […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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‘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 […]

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