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Reading Room is Re-opening
We are pleased to announce that from Thursday 23 July our Reading Room will be re-opening for researchers to visit. Initially we will only be open one day-a-week on Thursdays from 10.30-4.30.…
7 July 2020 -
Remembering Michael Pollock, former RAS Librarian
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael Pollock on 27th January 2019. He was a former librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society, moving from the British Library…
1 February 2019 -
New research on Sir Aurel Stein
Yesterday evening, 4 October 2018, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE, “‘My Dear Schomberg’: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein”. Highlighting a hitherto unstudied collection of…
5 October 2018 -
New Books – New Catalogues
On Tuesday 29th May, Dr Ashmita Khasnabish (Lasel College, Massachusetts) lectured at the Royal Asiatic Society on “Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context”, a talk based on her new monograph, Negotiating Capability and Diaspora:…
1 June 2018 -
Working with the Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales
This week we are grateful to Alphawood Scholar, Pawinna Phetluan, for our blogpost. In it she writes of the seven weeks that she has spent with us: When I heard about the internship…
15 December 2017 -
Working with the RAS Photographic Collections
MA Student Ruby Rees-Sheridan shares her experiences during her placement at the RAS. Placement at the RAS As part of my MA in Art History and Museum Curating at the University…
10 June 2016 -
James Tod book launch
On Wednesday, 6 April we were delighted to host the launch of Knowledge, mediation and empire: James Tod’s journeys among the Rajputs (Manchester University Press), by Florence D’Souza. Florence gave an introduction…
8 April 2016 -
Manning and Marshman work together on Chinese translation
In 1810 Thomas Manning was in India. We know from a letter to his father, William Manning, Rector at Diss, Norfolk, that he sailed on board the Pellen from Canton to Bengal…
3 March 2016 -
A work placement at the RAS
Below we post an edited version of Surekha Agarwal’s report on a work placement at the Society which took place earlier this year. We are very grateful to Surekha for her contribution and for…
2 February 2016 -
Tea and Testimony inspire Creativity
As part of Explore your Archives Week 2015, we held a creative writing workshop on Friday 22nd November. About 15 enthusiastic writers joined Dr Emma Filtness, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University,…
24 November 2015
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