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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…
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The Papers of Johannes Rahder
Johannes Rahder (27 December 1898 — 3 March 1988) was born in Lubuk Begalung, now a district of Padang, Indonesia, where his father was governor of western Sumatra. He studied first in…
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Maldives independence Day
Today, 26th July, marks Maldives Independence Day. The country gained its independence in 1965 following successive Portuguese, Dutch and British protectorates, and became a republic in 1968. The Republic of Maldives is…
Visits, Conferences, and Events at the Royal Asiatic Society
As part of the global community of scholars and enthusiasts involved in Asian studies, the Society is always looking for opportunities to develop international partnerships and bring our collections to the attention…
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Upcoming Events
On 5th July, the Royal Asiatic Society, in collaboration with Southampton University, will host the conference New Worlds of the East India Company. The conference will draw together many scholars working in…
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The Royal Asiatic Society’s Visit to Norwich
Our Director, Dr Alison Ohta, writes: On the 24th May, the Society visited the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia and the exhibition held at the Forum library entitled Nara…
