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 […]
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15 August 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the conclusion of the Second World War. It is a time to […]
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Several fascinating personal memoirs have been donated to the Royal Commonwealth Society Library recently and the latest to be catalogued online was written by the […]
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This year the Royal Commonwealth Society collection at Cambridge University Library is celebrating two very significant anniversaries: 150 years since the society’s formation in 1868 […]
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On Thursday 22nd February Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey will give a talk to the Cambridge Bibliographical Society on ‘The power of the image in liberated France, […]
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(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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The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have mounted an exhibition in the entrance hall of Cambridge University Library displaying some of the most significant items […]
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You may have seen here that in May this year I was awarded a Research Bursary from the Wellcome Trust. The award means that I am […]
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The Changi project team have finished a major conservation challenge, the archives of John Weekley. In this post John Cardwell, Project Archivist and Emma Nichols, […]
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By Mary French and Emma Nichols Happy New Year from the Changi Conservators! Do you remember the Christmas Quiz from the Changi Guardian that we posed […]
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