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Reading Manuscript Paintings in the Kulliyat of Nava’i, and RAS AGM 2022
Dr Funda San (Yildiz Technical University) is currently exploring the Society’s collection of Turkish manuscripts, as part of a research project supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey).…
27 May 2022CANCELLED RAS Collections Open Evening
THE COLLECTIONS EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE PANDEMIC. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE AT A FUTURE DATE. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of…
16 October 2019Thailand and Other Collections’ Highlights
On Wednesday 29th May, we welcomed Dominic Faulder to the Society to lecture and launch his book, “Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand”. Dominic Faulder has been based in Bangkok…
31 May 2019Upcoming RAS events: Collections Evening and lectures galore
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host another Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
21 February 2019Launch event marks RAS Digital Library
Last night (Thursday 5 April) the Society held an event to launch its new Digital Library, which you can find online here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/. The launch event was an important opportunity to reflect…
6 April 2018RAS Collections Open Evening
Professor Anthony Stockwell (Royal Holloway), Peter Collin (Independent Scholar), Dr Roger Parsons (RAS), Rebecca Snow (Camberwell College of Arts)
26 October 2017Miscellaneous Box M
At the recent South Asian Archives and Library Group (SAALG) Annual Conference, I was asked to give a talk on some aspect of our Collections. The general theme of the conference was…
3 August 2017General John Briggs (1785–1875)
Today, 27th April, marks the death of General John Briggs in 1875, aged 89. Briggs entered the Madras Army in 1801 and served in the Second Mahratta War. In 1810 he accompanied…
27 April 2017South Asian Collections
Thursday evening (10th November) saw the third of three Events held this week at the RAS. On Monday 7th Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, both independent film makers, spoke concerning Lux Imperium – …
11 November 2016Oscar Eckenstein and Richard Burton
The majority of the Richard Burton Collection, now held by the Royal Asiatic Society, once belonged to Oscar Eckenstein. These were donated by Lewis C. Loyd in 1939, 18 years after Eckenstein’s…
29 July 2016