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Celebrating World Maritime Day
Today (24th September) is designated by the United Nations as World Maritime Day. This is an annual event occurring on the last Thursday in September which celebrates the professionalism and courage of…
24 September 2020Aap Beeti
This week I am grateful to Mrinalini Venkateswaran for the majority of the content of the blog post. Mrinalini is a Fellow of the Society and Museum Consultant at the Maharaja Sawai…
17 September 2020Much achieved, much still to be done
There are very few blog posts now, that I will get chance to write before I leave the Society. Therefore, I thought I would take the opportunity to complete writing about the…
10 September 2020The Papers of Angus C. Graham
In 2018, the Society acquired the Papers and Library of Angus C. Graham thanks to the generous donation by his family. It has been one of my aims to complete the cataloguing…
3 September 2020Succession Planning
I have spent a considerable number of my working hours this week reading through application forms for my potential successor as archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society. It is almost time for…
13 August 2020British Legal Disputes and Literary Connections in 1800s Canton
Last week, Monday 27 July, The Times publicized some new research at The National Archives. This relates to an 1810 incident in Canton (Guangzhou) when British sailors were implicated in the killing…
4 August 2020Emperor Meiji and the Meiji period
On this day (30th July) in 1912, Emperor Meiji of Japan died. Born in 1852, he began his reign in 1867, the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of…
30 July 2020John Cecil Cloake and Sir Gerald Templer
Last week’s blog post showing some of John Cecil Cloake’s photographs of Iraq provoked a number of responses from readers. It is always interesting to read people’s reactions to the blog and…
21 July 2020Iraq Photographs
On this day in 1958 a coup d’état, took place in Iraq, resulting in the overthrow of the monarchy in Iraq that had been established by King Faisal I in 1921. As…
14 July 2020Reading Room is Re-opening
We are pleased to announce that from Thursday 23 July our Reading Room will be re-opening for researchers to visit. Initially we will only be open one day-a-week on Thursdays from 10.30-4.30.…
7 July 2020