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Enjoying the Society’s Online Collections
This blog post is by the Society’s Librarian, Edward Weech. The current public health emergency means that on-site services at the RAS, like most other cultural and educational organizations, remain temporarily suspended.…
2 April 2020Conserving and Celebrating our Burmese Collections
Earlier this week, the Society hosted a small event to commemorate the conservation of one of its manuscripts. This is a Kammavācā, a Pali term which means “an assemblage of passages from…
4 October 2019Sir Stamford Raffles: Exhibitions, Collections, Legacy
This post is by Edward Weech. Nancy Charley, who writes most of our blog posts, is on holiday. Last week, I was fortunate to be able to attend the opening of the…
24 September 2019Burmese manuscript conservation success
We are delighted to announce that the project to conserve one of the Society’s Burmese manuscripts, and its rare woven braid (sazigyo), was recently completed. The conservation of these precious objects was…
26 July 2019Help us conserve Burmese manuscript and its rare woven braid
From today, Friday 1 March 2019, the Society is beginning a short campaign to raise funds towards the conservation of one of our manuscripts. The object in question is RAS Burmese 86,…
1 March 2019Upcoming RAS events: Collections Evening and lectures galore
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host another Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
21 February 2019RAS launches new Koha library catalogue
Digital technologies have become much more widespread in the last decade, with most of the population enjoying access to the internet at home or on their smartphones. This is the case not…
21 January 2019Royal Asiatic Society acquires A.C. Graham Collection
The Society is delighted to have acquired the A.C. Graham Library and Archive, which has been donated by the Graham family. Angus C. Graham (1919-1991) was a central figure in the field…
2 August 2018Project to digitize RAS Palm Leaf Manuscripts now underway
The Society recently embarked on a project to digitize its collection of palm leaf manuscripts, in a partnership with The Internet Archive sponsored by the Kahle/Austin Foundation. The Society’s historic collections include…
27 July 2018Cataloguing Collections – Improving Accessibility
This week, Argula Rublack shares about her experience of working at the RAS. She is a student on placement from University College London, Library and Information Studies Masters course: “I was first…
27 April 2018