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Looking forward to the Autumn
Cataloguing Update: Over the past few weeks, I have been busy cataloguing material from the ‘lectures and events’ section of the institutional archive and this is now available for people to view…24 September 2021 -
Happy Birthday Sir William Jones
William Jones was born on this day, 28 September, in 1746. His father, also William Jones, was a mathematician from Anglesey, but living in Westminster when his son was born. Unfortunately William…
28 September 2018 -
A Voyage to the Southern Seas
This week I went to the “James Cook: The Voyages” Exhibition at the British Library – in fact it was a family affair as I met up with my two sisters and…
24 August 2018 -
Provenance made (almost) perfect
We recently received an intriguing enquiry from Anthony Pincott, Treasurer & Membership Secretary of The Bookplate Society (www.bookplatesociety.org). In the course of indexing recent issues of The Bookplate Journal, he sought to…
25 July 2017 -
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 -
A visit to the Madras Literary Society
We are very pleased to post below Chris Rudkin’s account of a recent visit to the Madras Literary Society. Chris is a Fellow of the RAS. In January this year (2016) I…
14 July 2016 -
From Bombay to Oud Playing, Damascus to Jane Austen’s London
Over the past week the RAS has been delighted to host several events. On Thursday 9th June, Professor Sarah Ansari presented the last lecture in the 2015-2016 RAS Lecture Series. She spoke…
17 June 2016 -
Royal Asiatic Society Library collections added to Copac
We are very happy to have added our library catalogue records to Copac. Copac is what librarians call a ‘union catalogue’, which is a type of mega-catalogue unifying holdings information for a…
29 July 2015 -
Sir William Jones treasures on display in new library display case
During the summer we were delighted to receive our new library display case, crafted by Armour Systems. The display case provides a secure way for us to exhibit some of the treasures…
8 October 2014 -
Work Experience at the RAS 2014
I was introduced to the RAS through my school two years previously on a tour and was thrilled to be doing work experience here for a week. Having studied Sanskrit, art, history…
22 August 2014