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A 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 2017Collections Open Evening
Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…
25 May 2017Conservation students’ remarkable work on RAS collections
The Royal Asiatic Society has been collecting material for almost two centuries, and holds many objects whose origins date back far into the previous millennium. Looking after a diverse and important collection…
7 July 2016Benedict Leigh lectures on C.R. Ashbee’s vision of Jerusalem
Last Tuesday, 23 February, we were delighted to host the latest installment in our Fresh Perspectives lecture series. The evening saw Benedict Leigh (UCL Qatar, British Museum) deliver a lecture on “C.R.…
26 February 2016Saving Archival Treasures
What do you do when you find a photograph album whose binding is broken and whose leaves have become so brittle that their edges break very easily on…
22 January 2016Conservation of Latin-Chinese manuscript dictionary: a progress report
Over the course of the year, a team of conservators has been working hard at the Society to conserve a rare 1745 Latin-Chinese dictionary. This project was funded thanks to generous support from…
11 November 2015