Royal Commonwealth Society – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849

Posted on 30 June 2020 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is delighted to announce that it has digitized one of the most fascinating items in its collection: a parchment roll […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Rare Caribbean pamphlets

Posted on 29 April 2020 by John C.

During the University Library’s closure, the Royal Commonwealth Society department has been cataloguing its collection of rare eighteenth and nineteenth-century pamphlets relating to the Caribbean. […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Queensland, Australia

Posted on 14 February 2020 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is delighted to announce the publication, on Cambridge Digital Library, of three very interesting collections relating to nineteenth-century Queensland, Australia. […]

Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Addition to the Donald Bowen archive

Posted on 21 January 2020 by John C.

The former Art Curator of the Commonwealth Institute, Donald Bowen, passed away at the age of 101 on 25 July 2019. During his 25 years […]

Acquisitions, 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 […]

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

Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition

Posted on 28 November 2019 by John C.

The Award Ceremony for the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was held at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on […]

Digital Resources, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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 […]

New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tea merchants coming ashore

Posted on 25 October 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department is very happy to announce that it has purchased at auction another oil painting to add to its rich collection […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Falkland Islands and South Georgia

Posted on 10 September 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just released four collections of photographs, artwork and maps relating to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on Cambridge […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Turkish Cypriot political poster

Posted on 27 August 2019 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library department has just been donated a fascinating political poster, a rare survival from a turbulent time in the history of […]

Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society