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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
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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,…
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I Say Goodbye… and He Says Hello!
This will be the last blogpost that I write as the Society’s Archivist. After handing in my resignation at the beginning of the year, the process of finding my successor is now…
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Remembering Joseph Ernest Renan
Friday 28 February marks 202 years since the birth of Joseph Ernest Renan in 1823 at Tréguier, Brittany. His father was involved in the fishing industry but died when Renan was just…
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The Early Research of Reginald Campbell Thompson
In 2024 the Society acquired some papers belonging to Reginald Campbell Thompson. They had originally been given to John Nicholas Postgate, former professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge, by Reginald…
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Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Snake
We would like to start this blog post by wishing a Happy New Year to all those who celebrated the Chinese New Year this week. The featured image at the head of…
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Commemorating John Drew Bate
This Sunday, 26 January, marks the 102nd anniversary of the death of the missionary John Drew Bate. He died on the 26th January 1923. In the 1923 Journal of the Royal Asiatic…
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The Asiatic Society and William Jones
This week, on 15 January, the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, celebrated the anniversary of its founding. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland would like to send their congratulations to the…
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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…
