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Tag: Emma Nichols

Farewell to Changi

Posted on 30 June 2017 by Emma Nichols

(Above image – ‘Air Raids’ by Robert Harper, RCMS 103/3/12) After 21 months I have come to the end of my role as project conservator […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Under the Microscope – Preliminary Investigations of the Changi Archive Conservation Research Project

Posted on 14 December 2016 by Emma Nichols

You may have seen here that in May this year I was awarded a Research Bursary from the Wellcome Trust. The award means that I am […]

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Archives, Conservation, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Science

The History and Conservation of the John Weekley Changi Archives

Posted on 11 July 2016 by John C.

The Changi project team have finished a major conservation challenge, the archives of John Weekley. In this post John Cardwell, Project Archivist and Emma Nichols, […]

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Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Christmas in Changi – The Result!

Posted on 23 February 2016 by Emma Nichols

By Mary French and Emma Nichols Happy New Year from the Changi Conservators! Do you remember the Christmas Quiz from the Changi Guardian that we posed […]

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Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Christmas in Changi

Posted on 22 December 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Emma Nichols and Mary French Seasons Greetings from the Changi Archive Conservators! As we prepare to celebrate the holiday season at home with family […]

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Christmas, Conservation, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Conservation Challenges posed by the Changi Archive

Posted on 16 November 2015 by Special Collections

by Emma Nichols and Mary French The conservation of the WWII Changi civilian internment camp archives is being undertaken by two conservators, Emma Nichols and Mary […]

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Archives, Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Conservation of the Lewis-Gibson Collection: re-treatment of manuscript fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Posted on 20 July 2015 by Emma Nichols

by Mary French, Rebecca Goldie and Emma Nichols Cambridge University Library (the UL) contains the largest collection of medieval Jewish writings in the world. Around […]

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Conservation, Lewis-Gibson Collection

Conservation of Indian miniatures

Posted on 24 April 2015 by Rachel Rowe

The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) collections in Cambridge University Library contain a very attractive collection of nineteenth century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil […]

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Archives, Conservation, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, Special Collections

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