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John Cecil Cloake and Other Delights of the Photographic Collections
Ruby Rees-Sheridan tells more about her placement: As my month-long placement at the RAS comes to a close I will certainly be leaving with a sense of achievement. This week has seen a…
23 June 2016Cataloguing and more on a work placement at the RAS
We are pleased to publish below a post by Jamie Stokes, who recently completed a work placement at the Society as part of his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies. Work Placement…
27 May 2016The Ram Raz Collection and Vastu Shastra
We are pleased to introduce a guest post by Dr Jennifer Howes, an art historian specializing in South Asia and author of The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India. The Ram Raz Collection In the…
24 May 2016Nineveh on Screen
We are grateful to Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey from the UCL, Filming Antiquity project for this week’s blogpost: On Tuesday 26 January, the Director and staff of the Royal Asiatic Society welcomed…
12 May 2016The Mongol World
Subscribers to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society will soon be receiving the spring issue. This edition is a festschrift created in honour of its former editor Professor David O. Morgan. Researchers…
6 May 2016The Goddess Devi
On Tuesday 12th April, The Royal Asiatic Society were pleased to host a launch of Isabella Tree’s book. “The Living Goddess”. In the book Isabella explores the Tibetan tradition of choosing a…
14 April 2016Kathmandu
Yesterday evening, 31st March, the RAS hosted the launch of Thomas Bell’s book, “Kathmandu”. In a packed lecture room, David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford University, introduced this evening. Kathmandu…
1 April 2016Saved for the nation: RAS acquires Thomas Manning Archive
The Royal Asiatic Society has acquired the archive of sinologist Thomas Manning (1772-1840), one of Britain’s first scholars of Chinese language and culture. The archive consists of over 400 letters to and…
20 October 2015Burma 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