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Textiles and Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition
Director Presents on Textiles and Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition: The Society’s Director, Alison Ohta took part in a virtual workshop on the 2nd and 3rd of June. The workshop was titled…
11 June 2021Cataloguing the Duncanson Collection
Over the last year, one of our volunteers has been working on the cataloguing of the personal papers of the former President and Director of the Society, Dr John Dennis Duncanson, O.B.E…
7 May 2021RAS around the World: Part Two
Continuing with our “RAS around the world” theme, this week’s blog has been kindly written by the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, they have…
16 April 2021Re-opening our Collections
In light of the easing of restrictions, the Society is pleased to announce that we will be re-opening our collections to visitors for one day a week every Thursday starting next week…
9 April 2021Spotlight 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 2021RAS around the World
This week’s blog post is kindly written by Rev. Steven L. Shields who has recently become the President of the RAS Korea branch, following Brother Anthony of Taizé who stepped down after…
12 March 2021Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Cuneiform
This Friday (5th March) marks the anniversary of the death of the Orientalist and former President of the Society, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson: 1810-1895. In 1827 he was sent, aged 17,…
5 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 2021Does the sun ever set on our Editorial Board?
At the end of last year, we were pleased to announce that four additional scholars (Associate Editors) would be joining the Editorial Board and our editorial team. After Christmas, I welcomed each…
5 February 2021Warmest 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 2021