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The Photography Collection at the RAS – Dr Amy Matthewson
If you have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Extraordinary Endeavours exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, do please come before it closes on the 15th of December 2023. The exhibition…![]()
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…
Digitization of Documents from the Sufi Shrines at Dhar in India
The Society is delighted to announce the completion of its project to digitize documents related to the Sufi Shrines in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. Funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at…
An Armenian Manuscript / Happy Easter from the RAS!
To celebrate Easter we are taking a look at an item from the collections: a 13th-Century Armenian biblical manuscript. Dated 1246, the manuscript contains the 14 Epistles of St Paul prefaced by…
Now available on YouTube: Launch of Derek Davis translation of Pushkin’s ‘A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829’
“There was a Poet whose untimely tomb…” Shelley Alastor Much has happened since the launch of my translation of Pushkin’s Arzrum [Erzurum] on 25 October. At RAS,…
Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur Court
To celebrate the publication of Masterpieces at the Jaipur Court, edited by Mrinalini Venkateswaran and Giles Tillotson, the Society hosted a study day on the topic of Cultural Worlds at the Jaipur…
New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod
We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history…
