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Congratulations 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 2020What’s Happening in the Archives?
A new year and decade, and just over five years in post as archivist, I decided it would be a good idea to take stock of the progress in caring for the…
7 February 2020Wannell, Bayly and Buchanan-Hamilton
BRUCE WANNELL, EXPERT ON ISLAMIC MYSTICISM It is with great sadness that we report the death of Bruce Wannell in York from pancreatic cancer. Bruce Wannell, a long-standing member of the Society,…
31 January 2020National Girl Child Day
In India today (24 January) it is National Girl Child Day, an initiative set up in 2008 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to highlight the inequalities often faced by…
24 January 2020Sir George Thomas Staunton
Last night, on 16 January, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Henrietta Harrison (Pembroke College, Oxford) to lecture on “George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in…
17 January 2020Bibles, Mulberries, Cambodia, and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Last week saw two very different lectures from Dr George Mak and Dr Peter Coles looking at the history of the Mandarin Union version of the Bible and of Mulberry trees. More…
17 December 2019Where to Catalogue the Inscription from Kedah?
The main focus for my cataloguing on to Archives Hub in the last few weeks has been material associated with Societies that are, or have been, allied with the Royal Asiatic Society.…
6 December 2019The Empress Dowager Cixi
On this day, 29th November, in 1835, the Empress Dowager Cixi was born. She was a formidable woman who, for a good part of her 73 years, held considerable power in Imperial…
29 November 2019Lectures and Events
This week, on Tuesday 5th November, we welcomed Paul Bromberg to the Royal Asiatic Society. Paul Bromberg, the serving editor of the Journal of the Siam Society and a contributing editor to Arts of Asia…
8 November 2019Christopher Bayly, Stuart Simmonds and H.G. Quaritch Wales
As the bicentenary of the Royal Asiatic Society approaches in 2023, the Council, Members of the Society, and staff are already thinking of how we might like to mark the event and…
1 November 2019