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From Singapore to Windsor Castle
This week’s title reflects the breadth of activities which have been happening at, or associated with the Society, its staff and fellows: Donna Maree Brunero of the National University, Singapore gave a…
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Happy Birthday, Horace Hayman Wilson
Yesterday, 26th September, marked 238 years since the birth of Horace Hayman (H.H.) Wilson who was born in 1786 in London. He went to school at the Soho Academy. He was an…
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Farewell to Dr Roger Parsons, our Longstanding Volunteer
On Friday 6 September we held a farewell lunch for Roger Parsons, a volunteer who has served the Society for nearly 20 years. At the lunch we were joined by Kathy Lazenbatt,…
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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A Season of Success: The Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia’s Summer Highlights
Recently Professor Giorgi Kalandia, President, and Tamar Latsabidze, Vice-President, of the Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia, have been in touch to provide the latest news about the activities of the Society. Since…
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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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September 2024 – Lectures and Events
The Society is programming an interesting lecture series for 2024-2025, the start of which will soon be upon us. So this week the blogpost will highlight the lectures and events coming up…
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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…
