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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 […]

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

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 […]

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Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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 […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Royal Commonwealth Society

Completion of Royal Commonwealth Society glass plate project!

Posted on 2 April 2019 by John C.

This blog celebrates the completion of the Royal Commonwealth Society department’s glass plate digitisation project, which over the last three years, has seen the release […]

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Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Virtual exhibition: Royal Commonwealth Society’s 150th anniversary

Posted on 18 October 2018 by John C.

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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Anniversaries, Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks

Posted on 12 April 2018 by Sabrina Meneghini

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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Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet

Posted on 9 March 2018 by John C.

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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Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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