Author / Nancy Charley
Celebration [in] Style: A Comparison of Anniversaries at the Royal Asiatic Society
Earlier this month, I, Nancy Charley, presented a paper at the conference for the International Council of Archives’ Section for University and Research Institution Archives. The theme of the conference was Commemoration,…
23 September 2022Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Instead of the usual blog post this week, we wanted to make space to remember and honour Queen Elizabeth II: The President, Council, members and staff of the Royal Asiatic Society are greatly saddened by…
9 September 2022The Society’s 100th Anniversary in 1923
As well as researching the Society’s past, and its collections for the forthcoming exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, I am also researching the past anniversaries of the Society to present a paper…
12 August 2022The Approach of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Anniversary
Often when I, Nancy Charley, write the blog post I include information of some anniversary – either commemorating the birth or death of a person who has been involved with the Royal…
29 July 2022Journal, Book Launches and Reviews
This week’s blog begins with an update from the Archivist: I am currently creating the catalogue for the records of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. It has been interesting to…
15 July 2022The Ottoman Sultan, Ali Raja Bibi of Kannur, and Compass Bearings
The three titles in the heading do not seem to have a lot in common. Two are people but from different parts of the world, and the other is a generic term.…
4 March 2022Publications and Collections (and the two combined!)
We start this week with news of a forthcoming special supplement to the Journal: Two hundred years ago the Society took a broad interest in all unfolding and less known parts of…
18 February 2022Gertrude Caton-Thompson
As we prepare to bestow the Burton Memorial Medal on new recipients this year, I thought I would take a look back at the recipient of just under seventy years ago. In…
28 January 2022Returning to the Royal Asiatic Society
As you will have read in last week’s blog post, I returned to the Royal Asiatic Society as the Archivist at the beginning of the year. In a series of coincidences I…
14 January 2022Happy New Year
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and hope that Covid did not intervene to prevent your celebrations. The Society re-opened on the 4th January and we are delighted…
7 January 2022