News of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
We start this week’s blog post with a message from Charlotte de Blois, Executive and Reviews Editor of our Journal, busy working from her home in Cambridge: The Journal of the Royal…
21 April 2020The Freya Stark Glass Slide Collection
In the weeks before the Society closed, we were fortunate to be able to host another student from the MA in History of Art and Curation course at Sussex University. Imogen Holmes…
17 April 2020Happy Easter
A message this week from RAS Director, Dr Alison Ohta: We are now in our 4th week of lock-down as Easter quickly approaches. I can hardly believe that it was less than…
7 April 2020Enjoying 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 2020A Message from RAS President, Tony Stockwell: more on Burton’s hat and stick
The Royal Asiatic Society President, Professor Tony Stockwell, writes: As Nancy Charley explained in her blog of 20 March, the Society remains closed for the foreseeable future. The Reading Room is shut…
27 March 2020Burton, Tod and Coping with Covid
As most of you will know, or have guessed, the Royal Asiatic Society is now closed for the foreseeable future with the Reading Room shut to researchers and all lectures and events…
20 March 2020Dr. Norbert Peabody receives the Colonel James Tod Award
On 1st March 2020, Dr Norbert Peabody was bestowed with the Colonel James Tod Award by the Udaipur-based Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF). This award was instituted in 1996-97 as part…
13 March 2020Adventurers in Siam
This week, I have turned some of my attention to a different task. Over the preceding few weeks, one of our volunteers, Ian Scholey, has been identifying some print blocks that are…
6 March 2020More on the Archives…
This week we continue with the story of progress with the archive collections. In the previous blog post I wrote about the original listing of the items in their boxes and something…
21 February 2020Congratulations to the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka
The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. It was formed on 7th February 1845 as the Asiatic Society of Ceylon. It immediately applied for incorporation which…
14 February 2020