Tag / Persian Manuscripts
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Collections Evening and Bayly Prize
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript…
Welcoming students back to the Society
SOAS Visit to the RAS: On the 20th May, we welcomed the students from the MA in Art and Archaeology class at SOAS with Professor Anna Contadini. This was the first group…
Bayly Prize News
The Society is delighted to announce that the adjudicators for the Bayly Prize have reached their decision about the winners for the 2020 competition. The Society regrets that present regulations governing social events…
More RAS Manuscripts Now Online
While the Society’s building has been closed for the last few months, we have been looking for ways to continue making collections and other interesting content available to our members and wider…
Collections Open Evening
Do you know how to repair an Indian painting? Or mend a Persian manuscript? Do you know the story of Nana Fadnavis and the Maratha Peshwa, Madhu Rao Narayan, or the how…
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…
