Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
The Award Ceremony for the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was held at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on […]
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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: It’s not all about pretty pixels
The Digital Content Unit (DCU) is the Library department responsible for the digitisation of special collections and the creation of other audio-visual content. The earliest […]
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The Falkland Islands and South Georgia
The Royal Commonwealth Society department has just released four collections of photographs, artwork and maps relating to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on Cambridge […]
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Books of Beasts: From Cambridge to California
Two Cambridge University Library bestiary manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century have made the transatlantic crossing for a spectacular new exhibition that opens today at […]
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Notebooks from the Steppe: William Bateson’s research trip to Central Asia, 1886-1887
To mark the digitisation of the William Bateson Archive and Bateson-Punnett Genetics Notebooks on Cambridge Digital Library, we are delighted to present a guest post […]
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Completion of Royal Commonwealth Society glass plate project!
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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The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: Introduction to Conservation
Cambridge University Libraries (CUL) has recently launched a two-year collaborative project with the University of Heidelberg. The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project aims to preserve, […]
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Shanghai and the May 30th Movement: guest post by Elena Fulgheri
The Royal Commonwealth Society Department is very grateful to our colleague, Elena Fulgheri, for a guest post inspired by our most recent release on Cambridge […]
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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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Bookbinding Structures of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Shaun Thompson (click on images to enlarge them) I have recently returned from a fantastic professional development opportunity which was made possible by […]
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