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Reminder for Prize Submissions and Coin Catalogues Now Online
We begin this week’s blog post with a reminder to submit to two of the Society’s prizes, both currently accepting nominations. The first is the Charles H. Norchi Prize, awarded for the…
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New Book, Event Recap and Website Refresh
New Book We are delighted to announce the latest addition to our monograph series: The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany. This new publication is the only known English translation of…
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Top RAS Recordings on YouTube
For this week’s blog post, we thought it would be nice to highlight some of our most-watched recordings on YouTube. As you may be aware, recordings of most of our public lectures…
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Remembering Raymond Head (1948–2025)
Friends of the Society may be aware that our member, Raymond Head, sadly passed away last month at the age of 77. Raymond first joined the Society in 1977 and was associated…
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Language and Culinary Culture – Dinner Menu for International Congress of Orientalists
Some time ago, a researcher visited us to consult the papers of the International Congress of Orientalists held in our collections. Although these papers are classified as part of our institutional archives,…
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April Edition of JRAS Now Available Online
I am pleased to say that the April edition of the 2025 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society has now been made available online on Cambridge Core. Fellows of our Society enjoy…
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Early-19th-Century Chinese Magazine and Gulistan of Sa’di in Hong Kong
I feel like the blog has become a space for me to share my spontaneous discoveries in the Library (which I very much enjoy!). Having grown up in Hong Kong, I have…
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Japanese Studies, Ancient Buddhist Civilisation and Zoroastrianism—September Lectures Roundup
Since I wrote last week the Society has announced more details of the 2025-26 Lecture Series. We are now hosting three public lectures at the Society and online next month to kickstart…
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Upcoming Lecture on Dvāravatī and Associated Collections
As the new academic year is fast approaching, the Society is programming an exciting line-up of lectures for the 2025-26 Lecture Series, which will commence in September. We are delighted to announce…
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An Ode to Ordinary People – Imperially Commissioned Illustrations of Tilling and Weaving
Every now and then I enjoy opening a random box on the shelf and get my teeth into something that is yet to be processed. Last week, as I was cataloguing some…
