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The first English translator of Tohfut-ul-mujahideen
Working with the RAS Collections is always an interesting experience – no two days at work are ever quite the same. Recently I have been working on some big collections – doing…
7 September 2018 -
David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
We are pleased to announce that the catalogue for our small collection of Papers belonging to David and Emily Lorimer is now available on Archives Hub. The Papers we hold came from…
20 July 2018 -
Society News
We start this blog[post with warm congratulations to Amy Riach, our Outreach and Publicity Officer, and her husband, Olly, on the safe arrival of their son, Hamish, on the 18th June. We…
22 June 2018 -
New Books – New Catalogues
On Tuesday 29th May, Dr Ashmita Khasnabish (Lasel College, Massachusetts) lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society on “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”, a talk based on her new monograph, Negotiating Capability and Diaspora:…
1 June 2018 -
Hidden Histories
Dr.Deniz Türker of the University of Cambridge gave a very interesting lecture on Tuesday 15th May, entitled ‘The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility’.…
21 May 2018 -
The 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 -
Preparing 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 2016 -
Edward 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 2016 -
Personal Papers – Thomas Manning and Richard Francis Burton
The catalogue for the personal papers of Thomas Manning has now been available for a couple of weeks via Archives Hub. They have already been of help to researchers, which for me,…
21 July 2016 -
John Cecil Cloake and Other Delights of the Photographic Collections
Ruby Rees-Sheridan tells more about her placement: As my month-long placement at the RAS comes to a close I will certainly be leaving with a sense of achievement. This week has seen a…
23 June 2016
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