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Catalogue Updates and Society Events
This week some retrospective cataloguing work has been done to the Reginald Campbell Thompson collection – some of you may recall that the Society acquired his papers through the Griffith Institute, Oxford,…
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Dr Philip Jagessar on Orientalists and their maps: cartographic views from the Royal Asiatic Society collection
In the annals of history, maps have often been celebrated as windows to the world, offering glimpses of uncharted territories and serving as tools of exploration, documentation, and navigation. Yet, their role…
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…
An Ottoman Sense of Place
Earlier this week, the Society was delighted to host a lecture by Professor Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, titled “An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical Illustration between Europe and Iran”. Zeynep’s fascinating lecture highlighted the…
