Tag / Henry Thomas Colebrooke

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Translating an Ottoman Railway Map

This week’s blog is written by Philip Jagessar who gives us an update on an interesting find he discovered within the Society’s map collections. Among the Society’s eclectic collection of foreign…

30 September 2021

2023, Acquisitions, Cartography, Collections, Events, lectures, Maps, RAS Collections, RAS History, Visits
Happy Anniversary Royal Asiatic Society

Last night (Thursday 14th) we welcomed Dr. Yossef Rapoport from Queen Mary, University of London to lecture on the “Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo”, a lecture…

15 March 2019

About the Society, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series
You Can Take the Archivist Out of the Archive…

…but you can’t take the Archive out of the Archivist to misquote a well-known phrase. I was on holiday in Ireland a couple of weeks ago, enjoying the magnificent Galway coastline. It…

6 October 2016

Colebrooke, Collections, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Manuscripts, Persian Manuscripts, Poetry
The Personal Papers of Henry Thomas Colebrooke

Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837) was the founder of the Royal Asiatic Society; the preliminary planning meetings were held in his house “to consider the expediency of instituting a Society for the encouragement of science,…

15 September 2016

About the Society, Archives, Archives Hub, Colebrooke, Collections, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, India