Royal Commonwealth Society – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Transtemporal at the University Library

Posted on 19 May 2023 by Sally Kent

This guest post is by Sana Ginwalla, an Indian-Zambian photographer and curator, founder and director of Zambia Belonging – a counter-archive of photographs which explore […]

Archives, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration between the Cambridge School of Art and the Royal Commonwealth Society collection

Posted on 17 February 2023 by Sally Kent

Last term Cambridge University Library welcomed a group of second-year photography students from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), as part of […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Shared digital curation of southern African collections

Posted on 12 January 2023 by Sally Kent

Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Unpublished manuscripts of Kenyan journalist Henry Muoria

Posted on 1 April 2022 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection is thrilled to report that it has been donated the unpublished manuscripts of the important Kenyan journalist and writer Henry […]

Manuscripts, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Polar exploration

Posted on 23 February 2022 by John C.

Work is continuing in the Royal Commonwealth Society Library department to catalogue its collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century pamphlets and magazine articles. The latest volume to […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections, Travel, World War Two

New voice from women’s internment camps, Singapore, 1943-1945

Posted on 14 September 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library is extremely grateful to our colleagues at The Salvation Army Archives, Canada and Bermuda Territory, for helping to enrich our […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society, women, World War Two

Pamphlets of 19th-century New Zealand

Posted on 1 July 2021 by John C.

The Royal Commonwealth Society Library department’s efforts to discover its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets have turned to New Zealand, and a large number of […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Pamphlets of nineteenth-century China

Posted on 13 April 2021 by John C.

At Cambridge University Library, the Royal Commonwealth Society Department continues to push ahead with the discovery of its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets. Recent work has […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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 […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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. […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society