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  • Catalogue Updates and Society Events

    This week some retrospective cataloguing work has been done to the Reginald Campbell Thompson collection – some of you may recall that the Society acquired his papers through the Griffith Institute, Oxford,…

    28 March 2025
    Archives, Book Launches, Cataloguing, Collections, RAS Collections, Reginald Campbell Thompson, Royal Asiatic Society
  • From Myanmar to Georgia – highlighting the breadth of the Society’s activities

    On Thursday 29th June we welcomed Stephen Simmons for a launch of his book, Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station. The book relates the forgotten lives of people who summered at…

    14 July 2023
    2023, Acquisitions, Cataloguing, China, Egypt, RAS around the world, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • 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
  • Reflecting on 2021

    For the last blog post of 2021, we wanted to reflect on some of the work that has taken place across the Society over the last year. Before we mention these achievements,…
    17 December 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, Archives, Archives Hub, awards, Bayly Prize, Cataloguing, Christmas, collections evening, Digital Library, Events, Exhibitions, festschrift, JRAS, lectures, Library
  • Cataloguing the Collections

    Cataloguing Update: Progress is being made on the cataloguing of collections material in the institutional archive with descriptions now ready to be uploaded onto Archives Hub. I have discovered several interesting finds…
    12 November 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, About the Society, Archives, Bayly Prize, Cataloguing, Collections
  • 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
    2021-2022 lecture series, Archives Hub, Books, Cataloguing, Events, lectures, Publications
  • 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…

    13 August 2021
    Archives, Book Launches, Cataloguing, institutional archive, lectures, Paintings and Drawings, Sir George Thomas Staunton
  • 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…

    25 June 2021
    Archives, Archives Hub, Cataloguing, Collections, Events, institutional archive, lectures
  • 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…

    7 May 2021
    Archives, Archives Hub, Cataloguing, Collections, Duncanson Collection, Events, lectures
  • 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,…

    5 March 2021
    Archives, Book Launches, Cataloguing, cuneiform, lectures, Library, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
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