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Missing Malayalam Manuscripts
We are delighted to feature another blog post from previous RAS Librarian Kathy Lazenbatt, who recently finished cataloguing the RAS Whish Collection of South Indian Manuscripts. When I was re-boxing the RAS…
8 December 2017Exploring Collections
This week is Explore Your Archives Week, a national initiative to celebrate the many and diverse archives held in the UK. For our part of the celebration, we held a Collections Open…
24 November 2017Wall Paintings of Bhutan and RAS Collections
On Thursday 16th November we welcomed Professor David Park to give a lecture on “Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan”. Professor Park described some of the many different types of wall…
17 November 2017Dr 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…
10 November 2017Coromandel – books, plants and snakes
This week we hosted the launch of Charles Allen’s book, Coromandel: A personal history of Southern India. This latest publication focuses on southern India. Charles spoke to a very full lecture theatre, giving…
3 November 2017The Last Items of Miscellaneous Box M
There are two packages left in Miscellaneous Box M. The first when opened reveals a manuscript – it is made of paper but set out like a palm leaf manuscript and housed…
19 October 2017New RAS events series underway
We are very excited to hold the next RAS Collections Open Evening on Tuesday 21 November. Like our previous Open Evening earlier this year, the event will feature several talks highlighting different…
13 October 2017South Indian Sanskrit Manuscripts now catalogued online
Records for one of the lesser-known sets of manuscripts in the RAS have now been added to the online catalogue. Kathy Lazenbatt, who was the Society’s Librarian between 2004 and 2014, recently…
5 October 2017“Description of Bootan by Samuel Davis, Esq. 1783”
The sorting of the Miscellaneous Boxes continues…. (The last section about Miscellaneous Box M will come in the next few weeks – I am just waiting for some information from a manuscript…
29 September 2017Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1873
I am currently listing all the Personal Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson ready for their entry on Archives Hub. The material has been partly catalogued before and I am keeping approximately…
15 September 2017