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  • 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
  • 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
  • The Founding of the RAS

    Anniversary of the Inauguration of the RAS: This Monday (15th March), marked the 198th anniversary of the inauguration of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society was founded…

    19 March 2021
    About the Society, Archives, Collections, collections evening, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Library, RAS History, virtual events
  • Portrait of Rana Bhim Singh of Udaipur

    Farewell

    Today (1st October) is my last day at the Society. By the time I walk out of the door this evening, I will have been at the Society exactly 6 years. I…

    1 October 2020
    About the Society, Archivist, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • Commemorating Richard Winstedt and Celebrating Volunteers

    Four weeks ago, in his blog post RAS President, Tony Stockwell, wrote about Sir Richard Winstedt and his roles in the Malayan Civil Service, at SOAS, and as author of many publications…

    2 June 2020
    RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • Awards in Memory of Professor David O. Morgan and Sir Richard Burton

    The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the launch of a prize in memory of Professor David O. Morgan, who died in October 2019. David was the editor of the Society’s Journal from the mid-1980s…

    12 May 2020
    About the Society, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections, RAS History, Richard Burton
  • President Tony Stockwell writes again…

    Following lock-down we have cancelled events and closed the library. Compared with the plight of many organisations, however, the Society has been fortunate. The Director, collections staff, and editorial team are working…

    5 May 2020
    About the Society, RAS Awards and Medals, RAS Collections, RAS History
  • News of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

    We start this week’s blog post with a message from Charlotte de Blois, Executive and Reviews Editor of our Journal, busy working from her home in Cambridge: The Journal of the Royal…

    21 April 2020
    About the Society, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, RAS Collections, RAS History, RAS Lecture Series
  • A Message from RAS President, Tony Stockwell: more on Burton’s hat and stick

    The Royal Asiatic Society President, Professor Tony Stockwell, writes: As Nancy Charley explained in her blog of 20 March, the Society remains closed for the foreseeable future. The Reading Room is shut…

    27 March 2020
    About the Society, RAS Collections, RAS History, Richard Burton

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