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Celebrating our Collections
On Tuesday 26th March we held our third Collections Open Evening. It was a delight to welcome many people to view and hear about some of our Collections. The evening was introduced…
29 March 2019The Royal Asiatic Society Medal for 2019
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland is delighted to announce the award of the RAS Medal for 2019 to Professors Robert and Carole Hillenbrand for their outstanding contributions to…
22 March 2019Happy Anniversary Royal Asiatic Society
Last night (Thursday 14th) we welcomed Dr. Yossef Rapoport from Queen Mary, University of London to lecture on the “Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo”, a lecture…
15 March 2019Cataloguing Progress
Since the beginning of 2019 sixteen archival catalogues have been added to Archives Hub. These have been a mixture of larger and smaller catalogues, and of institutional and personal papers, and for…
8 March 2019Upcoming RAS events: Collections Evening and lectures galore
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host another Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
21 February 2019Major 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 2019Discovering Tibet
Yesterday evening (Thursday 7th February), Dr John Clarke presented his lecture on Tibet. For most of the blog we will be looking at Tibet, but first some other news: Cheryl Porter, Director…
8 February 2019Remembering Michael Pollock, former RAS Librarian
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael Pollock on 27th January 2019. He was a former librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society, moving from the British Library…
1 February 2019Happy New Year.
May I start this blog by wishing all our Readers a Happy New Year. As we move into 2019, the Royal Asiatic Society looks forward to another year of welcoming people to…
15 January 2019Hippisley Collection of Chinese classics now on loan at the RAS
The Society is delighted to have received a collection of Chinese books on long-term loan from the London Library. The books were collected by Alfred Hippisley (1848-1939), who worked for the Imperial…
14 December 2018