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  • Welcoming visitor groups back to the Society

    This Tuesday, the Society welcomed members from the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) for an introduction to the Society’s history and collections. Apart from small student groups, this was the…
    17 September 2021
    Arabian Nights, Conservation, MECAS, NADFAS, Visits, Volunteering
  • Celebrating our Achievements

    For this week’s blog post, we wanted to celebrate some of the work that has been carried out at the society over the last year, amidst such challenging circumstances. One of these…

    11 December 2020
    Archives, Exhibitions, James Tod, virtual events, Volunteering, West collection
  • Presenting the first virtual collections evening

    On Wednesday 25th November, we held our first virtual collections evening over Zoom. This was originally billed to take place in March but was cancelled due to the first lockdown. We were…

    27 November 2020
    Cataloguing, collections evening, Conservation, Exhibitions, internships, RAS Collections, reading room, virtual events, Volunteering, Work Experience
  • Lectures and Events

    This week, on Tuesday 5th November, we welcomed Paul Bromberg to the Royal Asiatic Society. Paul Bromberg, the serving editor of the Journal of the Siam Society and a contributing editor to Arts of Asia…

    8 November 2019
    RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Volunteering
  • A Short Reflection: Archive, E.W. West, Knowledge

    This week, the blog post is provided by Aaditya Sathish, an undergraduate student from the College of the Atlantic, Maine, USA, who has just completed an internship with the Society. During his…

    9 August 2018
    Archives, British India, India, RAS Collections, Volunteering
  • Antiquities of Java

    This week, Aria Danaparamita, our second Alphawood intern student shares her experience of working with our Collections: ~     ~    ~ As a student and researcher of Southeast Asian history and…

    19 December 2017
    Indonesia, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Volunteering
  • 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
    Archives, China, Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorized, Volunteering
  • Working with the Stein Collection and end of placement

    We are grateful to Carly Bishop, MA University of Sussex placement student, for her time spent with our photograph collections, and for writing the blog this week: As I come to the…

    20 July 2017
    Aurel Stein, Photographs, RAS Collections, Volunteering
  • Daniel John Gogerly (1792-1862) – Early Pali Scholar

    We are very grateful for the many volunteers who give of their time to help with our Collections. Recently Ginte Serenaite spent several months with us working on the Papers of Daniel…

    30 May 2017
    Ceylon, Daniel John Gogerly, Pali Manuscripts, RAS Collections, Volunteering
  • William Pettigrew and Frederic John Goldsmid

    Over the last six months, one of our volunteers, Ali Ahsan, has been working with our Collections. His work is now catalogued and available on Archives Hub. In this blog post he…

    9 March 2017
    Archives, missionary, RAS Collections, Volunteering
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