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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 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 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 2019Cataloguing and Acquiring Collections
I am pleased to announce that another new catalogue is now available on Archives Hub. This brings the total number of archival catalogues currently available to thirty-two – of course these range…
19 October 2018Light, Music and Learning!
Last night, Thursday 11th October, the Society welcomed Dr. Mehreen Chida-Razvi from SOAS to lecture on “The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture” in which she queried the reasons for…
12 October 2018From Rituals to the Elite
On Tuesday, 18 September, the Society was delighted to be able to host a lecture by Dr Rose Kerr (former Keeper of the East Asian Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum)…
21 September 2018Society News
We start this blog[post with warm congratulations to Amy Riach, our Outreach and Publicity Officer, and her husband, Olly, on the safe arrival of their son, Hamish, on the 18th June. We…
22 June 2018A Blog from Henry Colebrooke
This week, we have a guest blogger. Written in the voice of Henry Colebrooke, the Royal Asiatic Society’s founder in 1823, we learn of a new project, one of the ways in…
8 June 2018Silk Road Culture and More Gold Medallists
Last night, 24 May, the Society was privileged to be able to host a launch event for a new publication by Dr Susan Whitfield (Institute of Archaeology, UCL), titled Silk, Slaves and Stupas:…
25 May 2018
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