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Digitization Sponsorship for RAS Bicentenary
Over the past several years, the Society has digitized some of the most important parts of its collection, and has made digital facsimiles of manuscripts, archives, and artworks freely available via the…
30 September 2022 -
Reflecting on 2021
For the last blog post of 2021, we wanted to reflect on some of the work that has taken place across the Society over the last year. Before we mention these achievements,…17 December 2021 -
Society News and Events
Jeremiah Patrick Losty (21 May 1945 – 29 September 2021) It is with great sadness that we share the news of Jerry’s passing. Jeremiah Losty was for 34 years an outstanding curator…
15 October 2021 -
Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford University)
George Thomas Staunton and the Perils of being a China Expert in early nineteenth-century London
7 October 2019 -
Hippisley Collection of Chinese classics now on loan at the RAS
The Society is delighted to have received a collection of Chinese books on long-term loan from the London Library. The books were collected by Alfred Hippisley (1848-1939), who worked for the Imperial…
14 December 2018 -
Missing Malayalam Manuscripts
We are delighted to feature another blog post from previous RAS Librarian Kathy Lazenbatt, who recently finished cataloguing the RAS Whish Collection of South Indian Manuscripts. When I was re-boxing the RAS…
8 December 2017 -
NACIRA conference shines light on resources for Science in Asia
This week saw the annual conference of NACIRA (National Committee for Information Resources on Asia). Titled Science in Asia: Shining a light on resources, the conference was appropriately hosted by the Science Museum, on…
30 November 2017 -
SOAS and Kütahya ceramics bring 2016-17 lecture series to a close
The RAS lecture series for 2016-2017 is now drawing to a close, and we have been fortunate to round things off with not one but two marvellous lectures this week. On Tuesday…
16 June 2017 -
Goldsmid and Gordine at the RAS
Goldsmid and Gordine may sound like a firm of solicitors, estate agents or jewellers but in fact, they are the surnames of the creators of the latest sets of Personal Papers whose…
7 March 2017 -
Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors
On Wednesday 18 January, the Society was privileged to host a lecture by The Hon. James Stourton (Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University) titled “Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors”. James…
20 January 2017
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