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Warmest Wishes for the New Year
The Society would like to extend our warmest wishes to everyone in the New Year and mostly importantly, health and happiness in the year ahead. We start the year with the news…
8 January 2021Reflecting on the past year
For the last blog post of 2020, we are reflecting on the activities that have taken place around the Society during the past year. Having only joined the RAS towards the end…
17 December 2020Cartographic discoveries across Asian collections
NACIRA Conference: This week, we attended the virtual conference of the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia. The committee was established in 2008 to provide a forum for professionals that work…
4 December 2020Cataloguing the Gerald Tibbetts Collection
This week I have been busy finishing off the cataloguing of the Gerald Tibbetts papers that we have recently acquired. Tibbetts was renowned for his interest in early Arab navigation in the…
20 November 2020Japanese culture through rare books
With Library services closed for the time being, I thought I would take the opportunity to enrol myself on some online courses to improve my skills and knowledge. A course that particularly…
13 November 2020Finding our roots
This week’s blog post is written by the Executive Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Charlotte de Blois and a recent publication that has been written about the Anglo-Welsh…
5 November 2020Anniversary General Meeting in the virtual world
Last Thursday evening (22nd October), the society held its Anniversary General meeting, celebrating 197 years of its existence. For the first time in the society’s history, this meeting was held virtually due…
29 October 2020The significance of The Oriental Translation Fund and the role of Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
This week’s blog post focusses on the cataloguing of The Oriental Translation Fund papers. Very little has been published around the work of the fund which has been significant in funding published…
23 October 2020Aap Beeti
This week I am grateful to Mrinalini Venkateswaran for the majority of the content of the blog post. Mrinalini is a Fellow of the Society and Museum Consultant at the Maharaja Sawai…
17 September 2020Architecture and Archives
During this time when our lectures and book launches held at the Royal Asiatic Society have had to be postponed, it is a great pleasure to announce the virtual launch of Architecture…
23 June 2020