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,…
The catalogue for the personal papers of Thomas Manning has now been available for a couple of weeks via Archives Hub. They have already been of help to researchers, which for me,…
As I was struggling to sleep in the heat of last night, I was trying to drean up the lines for a poem to stop myself going stir-crazy. That reminded me of…