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Lectures and Opportunities
This week saw the latest event in the Japan Series of Lectures in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute and the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. The…
6 February 2026Job Opening – Outreach and Communications Officer
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND www.royalasiaticsociety.org Outreach and Communications Officer Salary: £32,000 to £34,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. Click here to download this listing as a…
4 February 2026In Memory of Christopher C. F. Naylor
Kit Naylor (1929–2026) The Society was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Christopher Charles Francis Naylor, known to all as Kit. He was a long-standing and devoted member of the…
23 January 2026New Book, Event Recap and Website Refresh
New Book We are delighted to announce the latest addition to our monograph series: The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany. This new publication is the only known English translation of…
24 October 2025Remembering Raymond Head (1948–2025)
Friends of the Society may be aware that our member, Raymond Head, sadly passed away last month at the age of 77. Raymond first joined the Society in 1977 and was associated…
3 October 2025Early-19th-Century Chinese Magazine and Gulistan of Sa’di in Hong Kong
I feel like the blog has become a space for me to share my spontaneous discoveries in the Library (which I very much enjoy!). Having grown up in Hong Kong, I have…
5 September 2025Artworks, Digitisation, Book Launch and Bayly Prize
Recently catalogued artworks This week I have spent some time cataloguing our visual material. Those who have visited our Reading Room would probably have consulted our physical catalogue entitled Catalogue of Paintings,…
1 August 2025I Say Goodbye… and He Says Hello!
This will be the last blogpost that I write as the Society’s Archivist. After handing in my resignation at the beginning of the year, the process of finding my successor is now…
21 March 2025Traditional Architecture in Arunachal Pradesh
We were delighted to recently receive news from the Adivasi Arts Trust, based in London, which has recently completed a project to survey traditional architecture in some of the Wancho villages in…
21 February 2025Happy New Year 2025
We would like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year with the hope that 2025 will bring much joy to your lives. However we start this first blogpost of 2025…
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