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  • Object Cataloguing and New Library Donation

    Object Cataloguing If you stopped by our Reading Room in the last couple of weeks, you might have seen a few curious objects dotting around the room. We have recently begun to…

    2 May 2025
    Collections, RAS Collections, Recent, staff news, Uncategorised, Volunteering
  • Happy 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…

    10 January 2025
    About the Society, Georgia, RAS around the world, RAS Membership, Recent, Uncategorised
  • 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…

    23 August 2024
    Book Launches, RAS Lecture Series, Recent, Uncategorised
  • 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…

    2 August 2024
    Buddhism, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Visits, Conferences, and Events at the Royal Asiatic Society

    As part of the global community of scholars and enthusiasts involved in Asian studies, the Society is always looking for opportunities to develop international partnerships and bring our collections to the attention…

    5 July 2024
    Book Launches, Collections, India, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Revisiting ‘Ancestral Worship’

    This week, our blog features a post by Raymond Mann, exploring the background to one of the photos in our China Glass Slide collection. This photo was previously labelled ‘Ancestral Worship’, but…

    31 May 2024
    China, Collections, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • 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
  • 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…

    28 April 2023
    About the Society, Uncategorised
  • 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,…

    3 March 2023
    About the Society, Events, Uncategorised
  • 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…

    17 February 2023
    RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorised
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