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Latest Special Edition of the Journal now Available
The latest edition of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is now available. All members of the Society have access to it online by logging into our website and then navigating…
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William P. Floyd views of Hong Kong
This week’s blogpost is provided by Dr Angela Cheung (Research Fellow in photography at The National Archives). We are very grateful to her for not only initiating the work described in the…
Iraq Photographs
On this day in 1958 a coup d’état, took place in Iraq, resulting in the overthrow of the monarchy in Iraq that had been established by King Faisal I in 1921. As…
Snapshot of Collections Care
We are pleased to announce that a three year project of caring and cataloguing our photographs has been completed. Nearly all the photographs within our Collections have been appropriately packaged and catalogued…
On this day in 1967
On this day (November 30th) in 1967, South Yemen gained its independence from Britain. Formerly the Colony of Aden, this had been ruled as part of British India from its invasion by…
Commemorating the Declaration of Indonesian Independence
Today, 17th August, marks the anniversary of the proclamation of independence in Indonesia, This marked the start of diplomatic and armed resistance against the Dutch until final independence was acknowledged in 1949.…
Dr Andrew Arsan talks on Beirut and Hong Kong
On Thursday 9th November, Dr Andrew Arsan, from the University of Cambridge, gave the next lecture in our RAS Lecture Series. His lecture was entitled “Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong…
Working with the Stein Collection and end of placement
We are grateful to Carly Bishop, MA University of Sussex placement student, for her time spent with our photograph collections, and for writing the blog this week: As I come to the…
Placement at The Royal Asiatic Society
This week’s blog post is written by Carly Bishop, our current placement student: I am currently studying for an MA in Art History and Museum Curating with Photography at the University of…
