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Launch event marks RAS Digital Library
Last night (Thursday 5 April) the Society held an event to launch its new Digital Library, which you can find online here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/. The launch event was an important opportunity to reflect…
6 April 2018Royal Asiatic Society launches Digital Library
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to launch an Online Collections platform, making more of its historic collections available to a worldwide audience, absolutely free. The site can be found here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/…
31 January 2018NACIRA conference shines light on resources for Science in Asia
This week saw the annual conference of NACIRA (National Committee for Information Resources on Asia). Titled Science in Asia: Shining a light on resources, the conference was appropriately hosted by the Science Museum, on…
30 November 2017The Last Items of Miscellaneous Box M
There are two packages left in Miscellaneous Box M. The first when opened reveals a manuscript – it is made of paper but set out like a palm leaf manuscript and housed…
19 October 2017New RAS events series underway
We are very excited to hold the next RAS Collections Open Evening on Tuesday 21 November. Like our previous Open Evening earlier this year, the event will feature several talks highlighting different…
13 October 2017South Indian Sanskrit Manuscripts now catalogued online
Records for one of the lesser-known sets of manuscripts in the RAS have now been added to the online catalogue. Kathy Lazenbatt, who was the Society’s Librarian between 2004 and 2014, recently…
5 October 2017Royal Asiatic Society Medals – the Oriental Translation Fund Medals
Throughout its history the Royal Asiatic Society have given medals and awards to scholars of Asiatic research. I have begun to organise the records for each of these, preparing them for cataloguing.…
22 September 2017More Printing Paraphernalia from Miscellaneous Box M
Discovering the identity of glass slides was the tiny cliffhanger on which I left the last blog post. The other two glass plates in the box also turn out to be images for…
25 August 2017A Positive Impression: Conservation Students’ Work With RAS Collections
Last year, we were delighted to work with students from the Camberwell College of Arts MA in Conservation, who conserved items from our collections as part of their final projects. The conservators,…
11 August 2017RAS receives ‘Conversation piece’, a gift from Professor Francis Robinson
On 16 June, the Society was pleased to host a celebration to mark the acquisition of a new painting, a gift to the Society from Professor Francis Robinson. The painting, Conversation piece…
30 June 2017