Author / Nancy Charley
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Happy Easter
A message this week from RAS Director, Dr Alison Ohta: We are now in our 4th week of lock-down as Easter quickly approaches. I can hardly believe that it was less than…
7 April 2020 -
A Message from RAS President, Tony Stockwell: more on Burton’s hat and stick
The Royal Asiatic Society President, Professor Tony Stockwell, writes: As Nancy Charley explained in her blog of 20 March, the Society remains closed for the foreseeable future. The Reading Room is shut…
27 March 2020 -
Burton, Tod and Coping with Covid
As most of you will know, or have guessed, the Royal Asiatic Society is now closed for the foreseeable future with the Reading Room shut to researchers and all lectures and events…
20 March 2020 -
Dr. Norbert Peabody receives the Colonel James Tod Award
On 1st March 2020, Dr Norbert Peabody was bestowed with the Colonel James Tod Award by the Udaipur-based Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF). This award was instituted in 1996-97 as part…
13 March 2020 -
Adventurers in Siam
This week, I have turned some of my attention to a different task. Over the preceding few weeks, one of our volunteers, Ian Scholey, has been identifying some print blocks that are…
6 March 2020 -
The Early Ottoman Peloponnese
On Monday 24th February the Society was delighted to launch The Early Ottoman Peloponnese by Georgios Liakopoulas, the latest publication in the Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt series, published in collaboration with the…
28 February 2020 -
More on the Archives…
This week we continue with the story of progress with the archive collections. In the previous blog post I wrote about the original listing of the items in their boxes and something…
21 February 2020 -
Congratulations to the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. It was formed on 7th February 1845 as the Asiatic Society of Ceylon. It immediately applied for incorporation which…
14 February 2020 -
What’s Happening in the Archives?
A new year and decade, and just over five years in post as archivist, I decided it would be a good idea to take stock of the progress in caring for the…
7 February 2020 -
Wannell, Bayly and Buchanan-Hamilton
BRUCE WANNELL, EXPERT ON ISLAMIC MYSTICISM It is with great sadness that we report the death of Bruce Wannell in York from pancreatic cancer. Bruce Wannell, a long-standing member of the Society,…
31 January 2020
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