Burma – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Pamphlets of nineteenth-century India

Posted on 1 December 2020 by John C.

Late nineteenth-century British India forms the latest subject of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s work to discover its collection of rare pamphlets and periodical articles. […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Queen Mary’s South Asian tour scrapbooks, 1905-1906

Posted on 6 December 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has digitised a fascinating series of scrapbooks documenting the Royal Visit to India in 1905-06 by the Prince and Princess […]

Burma, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Railways, 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 […]

Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Extract from Maps.Ms.Plans.R.c.1 "Map of the Maingnyaung region" ca. 1860

Mapping the Maps – a guest post from Natasha Pairaudeau

Posted on 18 April 2017 by Anne Taylor

Imagine maps as big as bedsheets, and then imagine the sheets big enough for beds made wide enough to sleep extended families. Only such a […]

Burma, Digital Resources, Digitisation, Maps, South Asian, Special Collections

Glimpses of early Siam and Burma [Thailand and Myanmar]

Posted on 6 April 2016 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just created an electronic catalogue for one of its largest and most significant manuscript collections: the papers of the […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections