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Category / 2023 / About the Society / Archives Hub / Archivist / Cataloguing / Collections / collections evening / RAS Collections / RAS Lecture Series

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  • Working with the Royal Asiatic Society’s Collections

    Yesterday evening (Thursday 23rd March) we held a Collections Evening. This is one of the highlights of the year for the Collections Team, librarian, Edward Weech, and myself, Nancy Charley, archivist. The…

    24 March 2023
    2023, About the Society, Archives Hub, Archivist, Cataloguing, Collections, collections evening, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • The Ottoman Sultan, Ali Raja Bibi of Kannur, and Compass Bearings

    The three titles in the heading do not seem to have a lot in common. Two are people but from different parts of the world, and the other is a generic term.…

    4 March 2022
    Archivist, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections
  • Returning to the Royal Asiatic Society

    As you will have read in last week’s blog post, I returned to the Royal Asiatic Society as the Archivist at the beginning of the year. In a series of coincidences I…

    14 January 2022
    About the Society, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • Introducing the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society

    For this week’s blog post I thought I would introduce myself to you all as the new Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society and my background in getting to where I am…

    16 October 2020
    Archives, Archivist, Collections
  • Portrait of Rana Bhim Singh of Udaipur

    Farewell

    Today (1st October) is my last day at the Society. By the time I walk out of the door this evening, I will have been at the Society exactly 6 years. I…

    1 October 2020
    About the Society, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • Succession Planning

    I have spent a considerable number of my working hours this week reading through application forms for my potential successor as archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society. It is almost time for…

    13 August 2020
    About the Society, Archives Hub, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • More on the Archives…

    This week we continue with the story of progress with the archive collections. In the previous blog post I wrote about the original listing of the items in their boxes and something…

    21 February 2020
    Archives Hub, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • From 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
    Archives Hub, Archivist, iran, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, RAS Library
  • A Treasure Trove of Egyptian Cookery

    On Monday 13th May, Nawal Nasrallah,  introduced by Professor Doris Behrens Abouseif, provided a fascinating and entertaining introduction to her translation of a 14th century Egyptian cookbook entitled Treasure Trove of Benefits…

    17 May 2019
    Archivist, Conservation, Poetry, RAS Lecture Series
  • New Books – New Catalogues

    On Tuesday 29th May, Dr Ashmita Khasnabish (Lasel College,  Massachusetts) lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society on “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”, a talk based on her new monograph, Negotiating Capability and Diaspora:…

    1 June 2018
    Archives Hub, Archivist, Book Launches, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorized
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