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A Big Thank You to our Burmese Manuscript Supporters

The Society is delighted to announce that we have successfully raised the £1820 necessary to fund the conservation of our Burmese Kammavaca manuscript and its rare woven braid (sazigyo). These funds have…

24 May 2019

Burma, Conservation, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
A Burmese Theme

On 2nd May we welcomed author, Philip Davies, to lecture on his new book “Lost Warriors – Seagrim and Pagani of Burma – The Last Great Untold Story of WWII”. This book…

3 May 2019

About the Society, Anniversary General Meeting, Burma, Conservation, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
Benjamin Guy Babington (1794-1866)

Monday 8th April marked the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Guy Babington, who died on that day in 1866. Babington was born on 5 March 1794 in Guy’s Hospital, London, where…

11 April 2019

Burma, India, Japan, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
Burma and Buddhism

In the first of the RAS Lecture Series for 2015-2016, Professor Janice Stargardt from the University of Cambridge spoke about the adoption of Buddhism in Burma using the case study of Sri…

9 October 2015

Buddhism, Burma, Collections, Lt. Col. James Low, RAS Lecture Series