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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 -
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 -
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 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 -
James Low In Thailand and Burma
Within the RAS Art Collections are a series of pictures created both by James Low and a Chinese or Thai artist, Boon Khan. They are pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolour drawings depicting scenes…
28 August 2015