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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… -
Sir George Thomas Staunton
This Tuesday (10th August), marked the anniversary of the death of Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet (26 May 1781- 10 August 1859) who was a former Vice President and one of…
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Cataloguing the Institutional Archive
Whilst many of the Society’s collections of personal papers have now been catalogued, there is still a great deal of work to be done to make accessible items from the Society’s institutional…
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Cataloguing the Duncanson Collection
Over the last year, one of our volunteers has been working on the cataloguing of the personal papers of the former President and Director of the Society, Dr John Dennis Duncanson, O.B.E…
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Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Cuneiform
This Friday (5th March) marks the anniversary of the death of the Orientalist and former President of the Society, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson: 1810-1895. In 1827 he was sent, aged 17,…
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Latest additions to the Digital Library
A reminder to all our readers that we have two online events to look forward to next week. The first, on Tuesday 23rd February at 6.30pm, will see Dr Erin O’Halloran lecture…
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Reflecting on the past year
For the last blog post of 2020, we are reflecting on the activities that have taken place around the Society during the past year. Having only joined the RAS towards the end…
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Presenting the first virtual collections evening
On Wednesday 25th November, we held our first virtual collections evening over Zoom. This was originally billed to take place in March but was cancelled due to the first lockdown. We were…
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Cataloguing the Gerald Tibbetts Collection
This week I have been busy finishing off the cataloguing of the Gerald Tibbetts papers that we have recently acquired. Tibbetts was renowned for his interest in early Arab navigation in the…
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The significance of The Oriental Translation Fund and the role of Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot
This week’s blog post focusses on the cataloguing of The Oriental Translation Fund papers. Very little has been published around the work of the fund which has been significant in funding published…
