Author / Nancy Charley
Lectures 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 2019Professor David O. Morgan
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor David O. Morgan this week. Professor Morgan was an expert in the field of Mongol studies and also a good…
25 October 2019Conferences, Congresses and Societies
Over the course of the Royal Asiatic Society’s history, the Society has been associated with, and attended, many conferences, congresses and societies. These associations are primarily concerned with research into Asia and…
18 October 2019The Bayly Prize for 2019
We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the Bayly Prize for 2019. This the second time the Prize will be awarded. You can read all about the inaugural presentation in 2018…
11 October 2019Treasures Uncovered
Yesterday, a researcher came to look at some of our maps. The maps are an area of the Collections which still need some sorting and ordering, so I needed to work through…
13 September 2019Aristide Marre and Isabelle Pinches
I have spent much of the summer months sorting through institutional records, applying retention schedules to make sense of which records need to be kept for both current and archival purposes. It…
3 September 2019Professor E.H.S. (Stuart) Simmonds
Earlier this summer, the Society was honoured to accept the donation of a portrait of Professor E.H.S. Simmonds (1919-1994). The painting is by his wife, Patricia Simmonds (1923-2018), an actress and painter…
9 August 2019Raffles in Java
On Tuesday 30th July, we welcomed Dr Sarah Tiffin to lecture on “Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in The History of Java”. The lecture, reflecting some of the…
2 August 2019From London to Surat and back to Mashhad
It has been a busy week in the Reading Room. We have had many researchers in looking at different things including Persian manuscripts. Malay manuscripts, Buginese manuscript, manuscripts and drawings from the…
5 July 2019