Author / Nancy Charley
Nepal: Natural History Exploration and Learned Societies
On Wednesday 2 November, we were privileged to host a lecture by Mark Watson (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) who spoke on “Nepal: The Early Years of Natural History Exploration and the Role…
4 November 2016Ralph Russell and the Poetry of Ghalib
On Tuesday 18th October the RAS was pleased to host the launch of a new edition of Ralph Russell’s work on Ghalib, the Urdu poet. We were delighted to be able to welcome…
20 October 2016The BBC and India
On Thursday 13th October, Dr Chandrika Kaul from the University of St Andrews presented a lecture, detailing some of her current research, as part of the RAS Lecture Series for 2016-2017. She…
14 October 2016You Can Take the Archivist Out of the Archive…
…but you can’t take the Archive out of the Archivist to misquote a well-known phrase. I was on holiday in Ireland a couple of weeks ago, enjoying the magnificent Galway coastline. It…
6 October 2016The Personal Papers of Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society; the preliminary planning meetings were held in his house “to consider the expediency of instituting a Society for the encouragement of science,…
15 September 2016Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith.
Dr. Nassar Mansour, who was visiting London teaching a special class in calligraphy at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, graciously consented to give a lecture on the 24th August to the…
8 September 2016Preparing the Papers of Henry Miers Elliot (1808-1853)
We are really pleased to announce that catalogue for the Papers of Henry Miers Elliot are now online with Archives Hub. The catalogue can be found here. I am very grateful to…
25 August 2016Edward Walter Hutchinson [1880] -1972
Over the past few months Shao Peng Kao has been working as a volunteer with the archives at the RAS. I am very grateful for the time she has given to work…
11 August 2016Edward William Lane (1801-1876)
For the last couple of blog posts I have been concentrating upon Richard Francis Burton. I am pleased to say that the catalogue of his personal papers is complete and will be…
5 August 2016Oscar Eckenstein and Richard Burton
The majority of the Richard Burton Collection, now held by the Royal Asiatic Society, once belonged to Oscar Eckenstein. These were donated by Lewis C. Loyd in 1939, 18 years after Eckenstein’s…
29 July 2016