Tag / Gordon Johnson
-
William Jones
William Jones, one of the greatest linguistic prodigies of the eighteenth-century, thoroughly fluent in English, Welsh, Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit, was through the influence of his patron, the Earl…
12 December 2022 -
Delving into the Archives – the Universities Prize Essay
At the start of 2017, I began the process of sorting the Royal Asiatic Society’s Institutional Records. These date back to its beginnings and, of course, are still being made today and…
10 February 2017
Loading posts...
Subscribe to Our Blog
Blog Archive
Recent Posts
- Dr Jennifer Griggs: Medieval Mysticism in Syriac
- Prof Yael Rice – The Brush of Insight (Book Launch)
- New discoveries in manuscript collections from India
- Asia’s Self-Discovery: How Different Regions of the Continent Came to Understand Each Other (Guest post by Prof Nile Green)
- Award of the 2023 RAS Medal to Robert Irwin
Categories
Tags
Afghanistan
Amy Matthewson
Archives
Archives Hub
Bayly Prize
Book Launch
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Burma
Cataloguing
Charlotte de Blois
China
Collections
Collections Open Evening
Conservation
Digital Library
Digitization
East India Company
Edward Weech
Ed Weech
George Michell
Giles Tillotson
Hong Kong
India
James Tod
lectures
Manuscripts
Nancy Charley
Nepal
Philip Jagessar
Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Professor Robert Hillenbrand
Professor Stephen Martin
Ralph Russell
RAS
RAS Collections
RAS Digital Library
Robert Irwin
Royal Asiatic Society
Silk Road
Sir Stamford Raffles
Sir William Jones
Thomas Manning
Tibet
Ursula Sims-Williams
yoga