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Pamphlets of late nineteenth-century British Colonial Africa

Posted on 5 February 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has added more than 600 pamphlets and periodical articles relating to late nineteenth-century British Colonial Africa to the library’s electronic […]

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Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Commonwealth universities

Posted on 17 July 2019 by John C.

Several fascinating personal memoirs have been donated to the Royal Commonwealth Society Library recently and the latest to be catalogued online was written by the […]

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New on Janus, Recent acquisitions, 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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Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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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Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

A letter of gratitude

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]

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Rare Books, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Cambridge Digital Library – latest update

Posted on 7 September 2015 by Special Collections

This release includes an important addition to our Royal Commonwealth Society collection. Thomas Dalrymple’s extraordinary photographs of the the former British Cameroons (now Nigeria) in 1937-1942 give […]

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Colonial Postal History

Posted on 7 January 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection has published an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, RCMS 361, which will be of great interest to philatelists and […]

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New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society, Uncategorized

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

The Papers of Sir John Glover

Posted on 3 March 2014 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library at Cambridge University Library has recently published an on-line catalogue of the papers of Sir John Hawley Glover.  A Royal […]

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Archives, Manuscripts, Royal Commonwealth Society

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