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Anniversary General Meeting and More Gold Medallists
In line with new Data Protection requirements, I start this blog post with a reminder to all of you who are signed up to receive notification of a new blog post, that…
11 May 2018Celebration of Historic Photographs
The RAS hosted a couple of events this week. The first, though not a celebration of photographs, was certainly a celebration. Tuesday 10th April marked the launch of Memory, Identity and the Colonial…
13 April 2018Happy New Year
May I start this blogpost by wishing all its readers a very happy New Year. A new year is often a time of looking back and looking forward. Coming back to work,…
5 January 2018Wall Paintings of Bhutan and RAS Collections
On Thursday 16th November we welcomed Professor David Park to give a lecture on “Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan”. Professor Park described some of the many different types of wall…
17 November 2017Royal Asiatic Society Medals – the Oriental Translation Fund Medals
Throughout its history the Royal Asiatic Society have given medals and awards to scholars of Asiatic research. I have begun to organise the records for each of these, preparing them for cataloguing.…
22 September 2017Digitized Versions of three RAS Manuscripts available thanks to Cambridge Digital Library
On Monday 3 July 2017 we travelled to Cambridge for the launch of digitized versions of three important manuscripts belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society. These are held on long-term loan at Cambridge…
4 July 2017A Warm Welcome from the RAS Shanghai Branch
Recently our Director, Alison Ohta, received an email from Tracey Willard, the Membership Director at the Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai. We wanted to share, with a wider audience, their words of welcome…
23 June 2017Collections Open Evening
Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…
25 May 2017Delving into the Archives – the Universities Prize Essay
At the start of 2017, I began the process of sorting the Royal Asiatic Society’s Institutional Records. These date back to its beginnings and, of course, are still being made today and…
10 February 2017The 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 2016