Pamphlets of nineteenth-century India
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. […]
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Tea merchants coming ashore
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 […]
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New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is thrilled to announce that it has purchased at auction two items which reinforce its existing strengths in the history […]
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Glass plates of Oceania, South Asia, the Far East and Africa
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is delighted to announce its third release of approximately 700 photographic glass plates and lantern slides on Cambridge Digital Library. […]
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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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‘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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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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Sir Harold Smedley Collection
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an on-line catalogue for one of its most significant recent acquisitions, the papers of the diplomat […]
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Tea and coffee in India and Ceylon
The Royal Commonwealth Society Collections have uploaded an on-line catalogue for a visually rich recent acquisition, donated by the former planter John Weatherstone. Weatherstone was […]
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