Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks
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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Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet
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
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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Letters from Civil War America
The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have just added an on-line catalogue entry for a fascinating series of letters written from Civil War America by […]
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Sir Harold Smedley Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its most significant recent acquisitions, the papers of the diplomat […]
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‘These tremendous years’
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 […]
Continue reading »Archives of John Seymour Benson
The RCS has just created an on-line catalogue for a fascinating recent acquisition, the papers and photographs of the geologist and mining engineer John Seymour […]
Continue reading »Historic Hong Kong
Six spectacular photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, taken c. 1900, were recently painstakingly conserved by Nicholas Burnett and colleagues at Museum Conservation Services at Duxford, […]
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