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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…

    14 July 2023
    2023, Acquisitions, Cataloguing, China, Egypt, RAS around the world, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • 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…

    13 January 2023
    About the Society, Acquisitions, Recent, Royal Asiatic Society
  • 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…

    8 July 2022
    Acquisitions, Blog Update
  • 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…
    3 December 2021
    Acquisitions, Book Launches, Events, India, lectures, Maps, Mysore
  • 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…
    30 September 2021
    2023, Acquisitions, Cartography, Collections, Events, lectures, Maps, RAS Collections, RAS History, Visits
  • 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…

    2 July 2021
    Acquisitions, Archives, Collections, collections update, Digital Library, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Library, Maps, virtual events
  • 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…

    20 November 2020
    Acquisitions, Archives, Archives Hub, Book Launches, Cataloguing, collections evening
  • 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…

    9 October 2020
    Acquisitions, Archives, Collections, RAS Collections

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