Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks
In October 1907 the British artist Alfred Hugh Fisher started his journey around the British empire on behalf of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee […]
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Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet
The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just published images of approximately 1,500 historic photographs on Cambridge Digital Library. These photographs, our most ambitious release to-date, […]
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The Alfred Hugh Fisher Photographic Collection: Guest post by Sabrina Meneghini
I am a PhD student at De Montfort University and last October I started my research The Legacy of Alfred Hugh Fisher and the […]
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Photographs of India
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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Royal Commonwealth Society glass negatives and lantern slides
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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‘The Tweed’ in Colombo Harbour, 1888
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is thrilled to have acquired a beautiful historical painting from John Weatherstone, who has already generously donated much of the […]
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Farewell to Changi
(Above image – ‘Air Raids’ by Robert Harper, RCMS 103/3/12) After 21 months I have come to the end of my role as project conservator […]
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Newly-identified Cypriot letter: guest post by Vasiliki Vartholomaiou
One of the great treasures of the Royal Commonwealth Society Library is the Claude Delaval Cobham collection of books, pamphlets, maps and photographs relating to […]
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Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections are very grateful to former planter John Weatherstone for another donation of beautiful artwork to add to his collection of […]
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Construction of Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, 1885-1889
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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