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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Pagoda at Pa-Li-Chuang

Posted on 20 November 2024 by Frank

Constance Gordon-Cumming drew this image of a pagoda for an article she published in The English Illustrated Magazine in 1888 entitled ‘Pagodas, Aurioles and Umbrellas.’ […]

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Archives, Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Pamphlets of nineteenth-century China

Posted on 13 April 2021 by John C.

At Cambridge University Library, the Royal Commonwealth Society Department continues to push ahead with the discovery of its collection of rare nineteenth-century pamphlets.  Recent work has […]

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Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Shanghai and the May 30th Movement: guest post by Elena Fulgheri

Posted on 11 March 2019 by John C.

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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Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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.  […]

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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, […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Digitisation, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society
Victoria waterfront, Hong Kong

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Historic Hong Kong

Posted on 12 July 2011 by Rachel Rowe

Six spectacular photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, taken c. 1900, were recently painstakingly conserved by Nicholas Burnett and colleagues at Museum Conservation Services at Duxford, […]

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In the spotlight, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

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