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Succession Planning
I have spent a considerable number of my working hours this week reading through application forms for my potential successor as archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society. It is almost time for…
13 August 2020Online Events and Archival Progress…
This afternoon, Tuesday May 26th, the Royal Asiatic Society in conjunction with the British Council, Georgia, hosted a zoom lecture by Zaza Purtseladze on the “Educational and Cultural landscape in Georgia –…
26 May 2020The Gibb Memorial Trust
The Gibb Memorial Trust was founded in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, by his mother Jane Gibb. She wished to commemorate the untimely death of her son, a mainly…
28 April 2020More 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 2020Where to Catalogue the Inscription from Kedah?
The main focus for my cataloguing on to Archives Hub in the last few weeks has been material associated with Societies that are, or have been, allied with the Royal Asiatic Society.…
6 December 2019From London to Surat and back to Mashhad
It has been a busy week in the Reading Room. We have had many researchers in looking at different things including Persian manuscripts. Malay manuscripts, Buginese manuscript, manuscripts and drawings from the…
5 July 2019Cataloguing Progress
Since the beginning of 2019 sixteen archival catalogues have been added to Archives Hub. These have been a mixture of larger and smaller catalogues, and of institutional and personal papers, and for…
8 March 2019Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900-1981)
We are pleased to announce that the catalogue for the Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales is now available on Archives Hub. This has been a long term project due to the…
25 January 2019Translations and an Indian Prince
This week, two new small catalogues have gone live on Archives Hub. These are both connected to translations but in very different ways. The first catalogue is for Chinese Documents on Trade…
16 November 2018Cataloguing and Acquiring Collections
I am pleased to announce that another new catalogue is now available on Archives Hub. This brings the total number of archival catalogues currently available to thirty-two – of course these range…
19 October 2018