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  • Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights – by Dr. Amy Matthewson

    Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Night What makes a good translation of a literary work? Is it faithfulness to the work, despite awkwardness or potential risk of making the reader feel lost in…

    3 November 2023
    Arabian Nights, RAS Collections, Recent, Richard Burton, Uncategorised
  • Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A short biographical sketch by Archie Phillpotts

    Next Tuesday we will host the first of three Burton Medal award lectures. To coincide with this occasion we are delighted to publish the following essay by Archie Phillpotts comprising a biographical…

    4 November 2022
    Recent, Richard Burton
  • Oscar Eckenstein and the Richard Burton Collection

    This Thursday marked the 162nd anniversary of the birth of the mountaineer, Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein (9th September 1859 - 8th April 1921). Portrait of Oscar Eckenstein held in the Society’s collections…
    10 September 2021
    anniversary, Archives, book launch, Collections, Oscar Eckenstein, Richard Burton, Uzbekistan
  • 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
  • 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
  • Burton, 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 2020
    About the Society, Digital Library, Events, James Tod, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, RAS Library, Richard Burton
  • Palmyra

    On Tuesday 28th March, in association with Cornucopia, we were delighted to welcome Professor Robert Ousterhout to talk on “Palmyra through the Lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, Forgotten Photographer and…

    30 March 2017
    Book Launches, Collections, Richard Burton
  • More Birthdays and a Death

    This week sees the birthdays of three people associated with the RAS and the death of another… Richard Burton was born on 19th March 1821 in Torquay, Devon and his wife Isabel…

    21 March 2017
    James Tod, RAS Collections, Richard Burton
  • Happy Birthday Royal Asiatic Society

    The Royal Asiatic Society was founded on the 15th March 1823, so this week marks its 194th birthday. Its inaugural meeting was held in the Thatched House Tavern on St James Street,…

    16 March 2017
    Archives, Archivist, Collections, James Tod, Library, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Richard Burton, The Richard Burton Collection, Thomas Manning
  • Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

    For the last couple of blog posts I have been concentrating upon Richard Francis Burton. I am pleased to say that the catalogue of his personal papers is complete and will be…

    5 August 2016
    Arabian Nights, Books, Egypt, Richard Burton
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