• Explore Your Archive: Tea and Testimony Creative Writing Workshop

    Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Find inspiration in the archives at the Royal Asiatic Society with Creative Writing Tutor Emma Filtness and Archivist Nancy Charley. You'll have the opportunity to explore a range of materials, such as manuscripts, letters, paintings and more, to help you find inspiration for your own original writing. Nancy will discuss the archives and tell you…

  • Kopḗ Scarves Christmas Bazaar at the RAS

    Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    Kopḗ comes from the Greek word, ‘Perikopḗ’, meaning a cutting from a sacred writing. Kopḗ collections encapsulate our values, aesthetics and conversations with a global community of makers. Each piece by Kopḗ is from a larger material that passes through the lives and hands of many craftspeople and makers who have given their time and…

  • Book Launch – The Boxer Codex

    Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

    George Bryan Souza, University of Texas, San Antonio, and Jeffrey S. Turley, Brigham Young University In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well…