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Major James Caulfeild’s Donation
Sometimes, as a break from the large projects I am working on, I tackle some of our more individual items. Having just completed the catalogue for the Richard Burton Memorial Medal, I…
15 February 2019Happy Birthday Sir Henry Miers Elliot
March 1st marks the commemoration of the birth of Henry Miers Elliot, born this day in London, in 1808. I wonder if it was a similarly snowy day? He was educated at…
1 March 2018Digitized Versions of three RAS Manuscripts available thanks to Cambridge Digital Library
On Monday 3 July 2017 we travelled to Cambridge for the launch of digitized versions of three important manuscripts belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society. These are held on long-term loan at Cambridge…
4 July 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 2017You Can Take the Archivist Out of the Archive…
…but you can’t take the Archive out of the Archivist to misquote a well-known phrase. I was on holiday in Ireland a couple of weeks ago, enjoying the magnificent Galway coastline. It…
6 October 2016Dr Ben Outhwaite lectures on “Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah”
The RAS was delighted to host a lecture yesterday evening by Dr Ben Outhwaite ( University of Cambridge) titled “Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah”. Dr Outhwaite’s lecture highlighted…
13 November 2015Conservation 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 2015Saved for the nation: RAS acquires Thomas Manning Archive
The Royal Asiatic Society has acquired the archive of sinologist Thomas Manning (1772-1840), one of Britain’s first scholars of Chinese language and culture. The archive consists of over 400 letters to and…
20 October 2015