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Welcoming visitor groups back to the Society

This Tuesday, the Society welcomed members from the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) for an introduction to the Society’s history and collections. Apart from small student groups, this was the…

17 September 2021

Arabian Nights, Conservation, MECAS, NADFAS, Visits, Volunteering
Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

For the last couple of blog posts I have been concentrating upon Richard Francis Burton. I am pleased to say that the catalogue of his personal papers is complete and will be…

5 August 2016

Arabian Nights, Books, Egypt, Richard Burton
Arabian Nights

As I was struggling to sleep in the heat of last night, I was trying to drean up the lines for a poem to stop myself going stir-crazy. That reminded me of…

2 July 2015

Arabian Nights, Archives, Lewis C Loyd, Oscar Eckenstein, Richard Burton, sexuality, The Richard Burton Collection