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Happy New Year
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and hope that Covid did not intervene to prevent your celebrations. The Society re-opened on the 4th January and we are delighted…
7 January 2022Finding 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 2020Reading Room is Re-opening
We are pleased to announce that from Thursday 23 July our Reading Room will be re-opening for researchers to visit. Initially we will only be open one day-a-week on Thursdays from 10.30-4.30.…
7 July 2020Burton, Tod and Coping with Covid
As most of you will know, or have guessed, the Royal Asiatic Society is now closed for the foreseeable future with the Reading Room shut to researchers and all lectures and events…
20 March 2020From London to Surat and back to Mashhad
It has been a busy week in the Reading Room. We have had many researchers in looking at different things including Persian manuscripts. Malay manuscripts, Buginese manuscript, manuscripts and drawings from the…
5 July 2019General John Briggs (1785-1875)
John Briggs was an officer in the East India Company army. He entered the Madras army in 1801 and accompanied Sir John Malcolm on his mission to Persia in 1810. Briggs took…
26 April 2019Remembering Michael Pollock, former RAS Librarian
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael Pollock on 27th January 2019. He was a former librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society, moving from the British Library…
1 February 2019Cataloguing Collections – Improving Accessibility
This week, Argula Rublack shares about her experience of working at the RAS. She is a student on placement from University College London, Library and Information Studies Masters course: “I was first…
27 April 2018Royal Asiatic Society at 195 years old
This week marks the 195th anniversary of the Royal Asiatic Society, which held its inaugural meeting on 15th March 1823. We are creeping towards our 200th anniversary in 2023 which we hope…
16 March 2018Imaging the Nagas
On Tuesday 23rd January, we welcomed Dr Alban von Stockhausen, from the Bernisches Historiches Museum in Bern, to lecture on “Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the…
25 January 2018