Useful links to additional resources for the study of the Commonwealth and Britain's former colonial territories.Blog posts about the RCS collections - keep abreast of new accessions, cataloguing & digitisation projects, and exhibitions.RCS 150 - new digital collection celebrating the Society's 150th anniversary, and the acquisition of the RCS Library by Cambridge University Library in 1993.Collection guides include: Caribbean collections, cine films, civilian internment (WWII Singapore), military archives, mission archives, nursing archives, official publications, photographic panoramas, and Polar archives.Current project (2022-2023) - Southern African collections: a co-curation.Induction notes - first-time users of the collection are recommended to consult these notes for guidance on searching the RCS collections.The Library is an enormous repository of information, pictorial and written, print and manuscript, on the Commonwealth and Britain's former colonial territories, founded in 1868 and home today to a growing collection of over 300,000 printed items (monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and official publications), over 900 archival collections (including manuscript diaries, correspondence, pictures, artefacts, cine films, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings) and over 125,000 photographs (albums, loose prints, slides, glass plate negatives and lantern slides). Welcome to the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) Library South Asian, Tibetan and Southeast Asian Department. Archives, Modern and Medieval Manuscripts and University Archives.
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