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The Last Items of Miscellaneous Box M
There are two packages left in Miscellaneous Box M. The first when opened reveals a manuscript – it is made of paper but set out like a palm leaf manuscript and housed…
19 October 2017New RAS events series underway
We are very excited to hold the next RAS Collections Open Evening on Tuesday 21 November. Like our previous Open Evening earlier this year, the event will feature several talks highlighting different…
13 October 2017“Description of Bootan by Samuel Davis, Esq. 1783”
The sorting of the Miscellaneous Boxes continues…. (The last section about Miscellaneous Box M will come in the next few weeks – I am just waiting for some information from a manuscript…
29 September 2017Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1873
I am currently listing all the Personal Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson ready for their entry on Archives Hub. The material has been partly catalogued before and I am keeping approximately…
15 September 2017Joy in the Archive – finding a misplaced letter
Over the last 2 years, on several occasions, we have highlighted the acquisition of the Thomas Manning Archive and some the material of interest in the Collection. It was a fascinating experience to…
1 September 2017More Printing Paraphernalia from Miscellaneous Box M
Discovering the identity of glass slides was the tiny cliffhanger on which I left the last blog post. The other two glass plates in the box also turn out to be images for…
25 August 2017Heading Back to the Miscellaneous Box
This week we look at some more of the items found in Miscellaneous Box M: Within the box is a letter from Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd; Oriental, General and Artistic Printers…
18 August 2017A Positive Impression: Conservation Students’ Work With RAS Collections
Last year, we were delighted to work with students from the Camberwell College of Arts MA in Conservation, who conserved items from our collections as part of their final projects. The conservators,…
11 August 2017Miscellaneous Box M
At the recent South Asian Archives and Library Group (SAALG) Annual Conference, I was asked to give a talk on some aspect of our Collections. The general theme of the conference was…
3 August 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 2017