Month / February 2017
A different kind of collection: Nancy Charley launches ‘Little Blue Hut’
We hosted a very special event yesterday with the launch of RAS Archivist Nancy Charley’s new book, Little Blue Hut. As well as being the Society’s Archivist, Nancy is a poet and…
24 February 2017A Trio of Events
In the past week we have been fortunate to host three interesting and very different events. On Thursday 9th February, Professor Stéphane Pradines from the Aga Khan University spoke on “The Swahili, a…
17 February 2017Delving into the Archives – the Universities Prize Essay
At the start of 2017, I began the process of sorting the Royal Asiatic Society’s Institutional Records. These date back to its beginnings and, of course, are still being made today and…
10 February 2017Afghanistan in the Mid-Twentieth Century
On Thursday 26th January we welcomed Elisabeth Leake as she launched her new book, “The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-1965”. She gave an interesting talk upon…
2 February 2017