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From Myanmar to Georgia – highlighting the breadth of the Society’s activities
On Thursday 29th June we welcomed Stephen Simmons for a launch of his book, Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station. The book relates the forgotten lives of people who summered at…
Collected Works of Sir William Jones donated to the Society
Yesterday, Thursday 12th January marked the start of events to celebrate the Society’s bicentenary. As part of the celebrations Professor Michael Loewe has donated a set of the first edition of the Collected…
RAS Acquires Terence Stannus Gray/Wei Wu Wei Archives
The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to have accepted two archive collections pertaining to the life and work of Terence Stannus Gray (1895-1986), who authored numerous works on Daoism and Chinese philosophy…
The self-taught cartographer and his Hindi wall map of India
In his final blog for the year, Philip Jagessar writes about a Hindi wall map of India which was sent to the Society by a Calcutta-based mapmaker. The Royal Asiatic Society’s…Translating an Ottoman Railway Map
This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who gives us an update on an interesting find he discovered within the Society’s map collections. Among the Society’s eclectic collection of foreign…Collections Summer Update
Traditionally, the Society is quieter than usual during the Summer months, due to the lower number of Events. But staff continue to work busily away, and in recent weeks we have been…
Cataloguing the Gerald Tibbetts Collection
This week I have been busy finishing off the cataloguing of the Gerald Tibbetts papers that we have recently acquired. Tibbetts was renowned for his interest in early Arab navigation in the…
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From The Sinbad Voyage to Arabic Library Cataloguing: The Gerald Tibbetts Collection
The Society is delighted to have received a small collection of personal papers, maps, and articles pertaining to Gerald Tibbetts (1926-1999), known as a scholar of the early modern Arab world and…
