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Spotlight on our Collections
Last Thursday, 25 March, the Society held its second online Collections Evening, when several talks highlighted how work with the collections has continued during the pandemic. While many of our activities have…
30 March 2021Conservation of a 19th Century Shi’ite Pilgrimage Scroll
This week’s blog post is kindly written by Mathilde Renauld who is currently working at the National Gallery of Ireland as a Paper Conservator. Mathilde previously completed a project for the Society…26 March 2021The Founding of the RAS
Anniversary of the Inauguration of the RAS: This Monday (15th March), marked the 198th anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society was founded…
19 March 2021Latest additions to the Digital Library
A reminder to all our readers that we have two online events to look forward to next week. The first, on Tuesday 23rd February at 6.30pm, will see Dr Erin O’Halloran lecture…
19 February 2021Cataloguing the Abraham Poliak Papers
We start this week’s blog post on a sombre note with tributes to the lives of Dr. David Washbrook and Dr. Filiz Çağman. Dr. David Washbrook (1948-2021) It is with great sadness…
12 February 2021Japanese 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 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 2020Introducing the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society
For this week’s blog post I thought I would introduce myself to you all as the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society and my background in getting to where I am…
16 October 2020From The Sinbad Voyage to Arabic Library Cataloguing: The Gerald Tibbetts Collection
The Society is delighted to have received a small collection of personal papers, maps, and articles pertaining to Gerald Tibbetts (1926-1999), known as a scholar of the early modern Arab world and…
9 October 2020More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
While the Society’s building has been closed for the last few months, we have been looking for ways to continue making collections and other interesting content available to our members and wider…
18 June 2020