Sri Lanka – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Tea merchants coming ashore

Posted on 25 October 2019 by John C.

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 […]

Acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

New Royal Commonwealth Society acquisitions!

Posted on 6 June 2019 by John C.

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 […]

Acquisitions, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian, women

Glass plates of Oceania, South Asia, the Far East and Africa

Posted on 18 February 2019 by John C.

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. […]

Digitisation, 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, […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

The Alfred Hugh Fisher Photographic Collection: Guest post by Sabrina Meneghini

Posted on 19 January 2018 by John C.

I am a PhD student at De Montfort University and last October I started my research The Legacy of Alfred Hugh Fisher and the […]

Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

‘The Tweed’ in Colombo Harbour, 1888

Posted on 2 October 2017 by John C.

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 […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Photographs, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka

Posted on 16 June 2017 by John C.

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 […]

New on Janus, Recent acquisitions, Royal Commonwealth Society

Sir Harold Smedley Collection

Posted on 7 June 2016 by John C.

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 […]

New on Janus, Royal Commonwealth Society

Tea and coffee in India and Ceylon

Posted on 22 January 2015 by John C.

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 […]

New on Janus, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society, South Asian