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Celebrating International Archives Week: Queer History Club visit the Society

To celebrate International Archives Week, we will be sharing some updates from our Collections team. Today, we’re featuring the first visit to the Society’s Foyle Reading Room by the Queer History Club.

Collections

New Society and artist collaboration: integrating historical instruments in art

Artist and printmaker Kristina Chan's new exhibition at Canada House explores the accuracy of recording territories through maps, measurements and visual records. Her work is also the latest in a series of artistic partnerships for the Society.

GEOGRAPHY NEWS

First blue plaque to include the word ‘geographer’ unveiled in London

On 8 August a blue plaque was unveiled to commemorate eminent photographer, travel writer and geographer, John Thomson FRGS. This is the 1,112th blue plaque in London, but the first to include the word ‘geographer’.

RGS-IBG NEWS

Society book sheds new light on 1924 Mount Everest Expedition

To mark the centenary of the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, a new Society book, Everest 24, has been published. 

Collections

Sharing our thanks this National Lottery Open Week

We are proud to once again be taking part in National Lottery Open Week, an annual celebration of the contribution National Lottery players make every week in support of good causes.

Research and collections

From belongings to artefacts: exploring David Livingstone’s expeditionary collecting

We caught up with WDA Research Fellow Kate Simpson, who has been researching David Livingstone’s expeditionary collecting through the Society's Collections.

Research and collections

Exploring experiences of women and gender in the 19th century

We caught up with WDA Research Fellow Ellen Smith, who has been exploring our Collections to reconstruct the experiences of Minna Markham in South America, India and Sri Lanka in the 19th century.

Research and collections

Mountain cartography and our Collections

We caught up with WDA Research Fellow Felix de Montety, who has been delving into our Collections to help answer questions about mountain cartography and the languages of exonymy.

Research and collections

Applications open to propose studentships on the Society’s Collections

Applications are now open for proposals from prospective supervisors for Collaborative Doctoral Programme studentships on the Society’s Collections.