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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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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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Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Asante Goldweights

Posted on 1 December 2016 by John C.

  This post is inspired by the set of Asante goldweights, boxes and scale currently on display in the Curious Objects exhibition, which celebrates the Library’s […]

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600th anniversary, Exhibitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Sir Harold Smedley Collection

Posted on 7 June 2016 by John C.

  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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Y30448U: 19 - Whale shot by a man-of-war at Cape Coast

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 24 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Lewis-Gibson collection with an initial selection of the 1700 medieval Jewish manuscripts jointly purchased by Cambridge University […]

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Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Digitisation, Lewis-Gibson Collection, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Ghana: Health and Nursing

Posted on 10 November 2014 by Francesca

In her third post highlighting pictorial records of Ghana in the Library’s Royal Commonwealth Society’s collections, RCS volunteer Francesca Issatt focusses on the Weston collection […]

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Ghana: Our Days on the Gold Coast

Posted on 5 November 2014 by Francesca

The following post is the second in a series promoting the Library’s superb historic photographic collections of Ghana, which form part of the Royal Commonwealth […]

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Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Archives of John Seymour Benson

Posted on 31 October 2014 by John C.

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 […]

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

Ghana, a photographic history: images of Achimota College

Posted on 13 October 2014 by Rachel Rowe

Michael John Fuller worked at the front desk in the main Reading Room of Cambridge University Library from June 1992 until his sudden death in […]

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Historian’s thoughts turn to Gold: a guest post by Owain Richards

Posted on 14 November 2012 by Rachel Rowe

Owain Richards reflects on a collection of photographs from Ghana, which form part of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s collections, acquired by the University Library in […]

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