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Follow the Special Collections blog, category: Royal Commonwealth Society and Languages Across Borders.
Exhibitions
- Celebrating 150 years of the Royal Commonwealth Society (1868-2018) with a new collection on Cambridge Digital Library
- Treasures from the Royal Commonwealth Society: A new online exhibition offers extraordinary insights into the Commonwealth and Britain's former colonial territories (Feature on our RCS 150 Exhibition by Tom Almeroth-Williams,18 October 2018)
- Pani, Pahar : a collaborative project exploring the changing landscapes and escalating water crises of the Indian Himalayas. Led by Professor Bhaskar Vira and Dr Eszter Kovacs at the Department of Geography (with collaborators in India and Nepal), and photojournalist Toby Smith with curated archival photographs from the Royal Commonwealth Society collection and from the Centre of South Asian Studies. Physical exhibition at Divinity School, 17-28 October 2017 as part of Festival of Ideas. Online exhibition accessible here.
- Curious Objects exhibition includes a case devoted to objects from the Commonwealth (scroll down to view these), plus a pocket globe (do view this in 3D - link at bottom of caption) and a warri-board from the RCS collection. Do come and view the curious objects in the Milstein Exhibition Centre in Cambridge University Library before the 21st March 2017. Free entry.
- You can also take a spin around the Commonwealth via the 3D globe . Select a number and view an item from our Curious Objects Exhibition.
- RCS collections in Cambridge Digital Library
- Audio description of Marshall Islands sailing chart, Micronesia (from Science Museum 'Who am I?' exhibition, October 2010-)
- Commonwealth cultures in a decolonising world (April 2010-)
- Products of the Empire - Cinchona: a short history (October 2009-)
- Archived copy of our slavery exhibition 22 June-31 July 2017, archived as part of Antislavery Usable Past web-resource. More information on this project is available on their project blog.
- Slavery, shackles and sugar: the route to freedom? (22 June-31 July 2007)
- Opium: a "morally indefensible trade in a "horrible drug" (2-31 July 2007)
Projects
- Wellcome Trust Changi Project
- RCS collections in Cambridge Digital Library
- RCS Film Collection
- RCS Official Publications Project
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The RCS photographer’s index and RCS Photograph Project gallery were retired in June 2024. The original selection of 700 images may still be consulted on Apollo. The full RCS digital collection is on CUDL. Biographical details relating to photographers have been incorporated into agent records on ArchiveSearch.