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  • The Ottoman Sultan, Ali Raja Bibi of Kannur, and Compass Bearings

    The three titles in the heading do not seem to have a lot in common. Two are people but from different parts of the world, and the other is a generic term.…

    4 March 2022
    Archivist, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections
  • Publications and Collections (and the two combined!)

    We start this week with news of a forthcoming special supplement to the Journal: Two hundred years ago the Society took a broad interest in all unfolding and less known parts of…

    18 February 2022
    About the Society, editorial board, Publications, RAS around the world, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • Gertrude Caton-Thompson

    As we prepare to bestow the Burton Memorial Medal on new recipients this year, I thought I would take a look back at the recipient of just under seventy years ago. In…

    28 January 2022
    2021-2022 lecture series, Burton Memorial Lecture, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Richard Burton Memorial Medal
  • Returning to the Royal Asiatic Society

    As you will have read in last week’s blog post, I returned to the Royal Asiatic Society as the Archivist at the beginning of the year. In a series of coincidences I…

    14 January 2022
    About the Society, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
  • Studying the Sanskrit Language

      Friedrich Max Müller: This Thursday (28th October) marked the anniversary of the death of the philologist and Orientalist, Friedrich Max Müller (6th December 1823-28th October 1900).   Friedrich Max Müller by…
    29 October 2021
    2021-2022 lecture series, anniversary, awards, book launch, Events, India, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund, RAS Collections, religion, Sanskrit
  • Translating an Ottoman Railway Map

    This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who gives us an update on an interesting find he discovered within the Society’s map collections.   Among the Society’s eclectic collection of foreign…
    30 September 2021
    2023, Acquisitions, Cartography, Collections, Events, lectures, Maps, RAS Collections, RAS History, Visits
  • Bayly Prize News

    The Society is delighted to announce that the adjudicators for the Bayly Prize have reached their decision about the winners for the 2020 competition. The Society regrets that present regulations governing social events…

    15 January 2021
    Bayly Prize, Digital Library, RAS Collections
  • Presenting the first virtual collections evening

    On Wednesday 25th November, we held our first virtual collections evening over Zoom. This was originally billed to take place in March but was cancelled due to the first lockdown. We were…

    27 November 2020
    Cataloguing, collections evening, Conservation, Exhibitions, internships, RAS Collections, reading room, virtual events, Volunteering, Work Experience
  • Finding our roots

    This week’s blog post is written by the Executive Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Charlotte de Blois and a recent publication that has been written about the Anglo-Welsh…

    5 November 2020
    Book Launches, collections evening, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, RAS Collections, RAS Library
  • From The Sinbad Voyage to Arabic Library Cataloguing: The Gerald Tibbetts Collection

    The Society is delighted to have received a small collection of personal papers, maps, and articles pertaining to Gerald Tibbetts (1926-1999), known as a scholar of the early modern Arab world and…

    9 October 2020
    Acquisitions, Archives, Collections, RAS Collections
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