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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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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 old books: January 2016

Posted on 1 February 2016 by William Hale

The Rare Books Department of the Library purchases over 200 printed books each year to enhance its historical collections. In the first of what we […]

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British Malaya in the 1930s

Posted on 20 May 2015 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have created an on-line catalogue for a recent acquisition, the archives of the railway engineer Hugh Murton Le Fleming. A […]

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