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On this Day – 15 November
On occasion, when writing a blog post I ally it with an event in history or an international day. However, this week I decided to take a different slant and discover within…
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Conservation of the Photograph Albums of Edward Walter Hutchinson
Last week, I had the great pleasure of going to Frome, Somerset, to pick up two photograph albums from the conservator, Sarah Allen, specialist photographic material conservator of Lux and Livre. These…
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Charles Ambrose Storey
I am delighted to announce that the catalogue for the Papers of Charles Ambrose Storey is now available. These papers were donated to the Society as part of Storey’s bequest and have…
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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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Happy Birthday, Horace Hayman Wilson
Yesterday, 26th September, marked 238 years since the birth of Horace Hayman (H.H.) Wilson who was born in 1786 in London. He went to school at the Soho Academy. He was an…
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Farewell to Dr Roger Parsons, our Longstanding Volunteer
On Friday 6 September we held a farewell lunch for Roger Parsons, a volunteer who has served the Society for nearly 20 years. At the lunch we were joined by Kathy Lazenbatt,…
Siebold’s Japan and Cataloguing the Elephant Volumes
One of the Society’s major long-term projects is the retrospective cataloguing of its printed collections. The Society’s library contains over 50,000 books, journals, and pamphlets, most of which were acquired in the…
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Terence Gray in Egypt
In 2022 the Society acquired a large collection of Papers relating to Terence Stannus Gray, known in his later life as Wei Wu Wei. Since the acquisition the material has all been…
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Some of the Joys of Working with the RAS Collections
Some of the joys of working with historic collections are that you never know what you will need to research in any one week. As enquiries come in via email and researchers…
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Richard Pankhurst, historian and Graham C. Dorsett, photographer
This week I’ve been working through more of the collections records. I’ve completed a first sort of all the physical material in the archives and have organised chronologically the material associated with…
