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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. […]

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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 […]

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Burma, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Railways, Royal Commonwealth Society

Digitisation of Sukkur Bridge photograph album

Posted on 8 June 2018 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library’s recent purchase at auction of a splendid presentation album of photographs (Y30244A), celebrating the opening of the Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian

Photographs of India

Posted on 19 December 2017 by John C.

The latest release of photographs published on Cambridge Digital Library by the Royal Commonwealth Society department includes a large selection of historic prints of India, […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Construction of Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, 1885-1889

Posted on 3 May 2017 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to have acquired at auction a stunning presentation album commemorating the opening on 25 March 1889 of the […]

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

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