Author / Ed Weech
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Honouring Professor Tony Stockwell, and RAS Collections Evening 2025
Next week, on Thursday 13 March, the Society will host a lecture in honour of Professor Tony Stockwell, a three-time President of the RAS and leading historian of the late British Empire…
New Cairo Museums, and Society Events
This week’s blog begins with a post from Dr Alison Ohta, the Society’s Director, following a recent visit to Cairo. New Cairo Museums Since its establishment in 1902, The Egyptian Museum…
Siebold’s Japan and Cataloguing the Elephant Volumes
One of the Society’s major long-term projects is the retrospective cataloguing of its printed collections. The Society’s library contains over 50,000 books, journals, and pamphlets, most of which were acquired in the…
A Scholarly Finale to the Academic Year: Dr Awad Ibn Nahee on the DARAH Initiative
Yesterday evening (Thursday 11 July), the Society hosted what may be the last lecture in its events programme for the 2023-4 academic year. This was a lecture by Dr Awad Ibn Nahee…
Visits, Conferences, and Events at the Royal Asiatic Society
As part of the global community of scholars and enthusiasts involved in Asian studies, the Society is always looking for opportunities to develop international partnerships and bring our collections to the attention…
Next Collections Evening 23 March
On Thursday 23 March, the Society will hold its next Collections Evening. In addition to giving people a chance to see some of our collections at close hand, Collections Evenings show how…
New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
Intertextual and Material Culture: Researching the RAS Collections
This week’s blog post is by Ruth Westoby. Handwritten on paper in Sanskrit, using devanāgarī script, is a manuscript of the Śārṅgadharapaddhati which forms part of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Tod collection.…
