Tag / Reginald Campbell Thompson
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The Early Research of Reginald Campbell Thompson
In 2024 the Society acquired some papers belonging to Reginald Campbell Thompson. They had originally been given to John Nicholas Postgate, former professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge, by Reginald…
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Commemorating John Drew Bate
This Sunday, 26 January, marks the 102nd anniversary of the death of the missionary John Drew Bate. He died on the 26th January 1923. In the 1923 Journal of the Royal Asiatic…
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Conservation of the Photograph Albums of Edward Walter Hutchinson
Last week, I had the great pleasure of going to Frome, Somerset, to pick up two photograph albums from the conservator, Sarah Allen, specialist photographic material conservator of Lux and Livre. These…
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…
Nineveh on Screen
We are grateful to Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey from the UCL, Filming Antiquity project for this week’s blogpost: On Tuesday 26 January, the Director and staff of the Royal Asiatic Society welcomed…
January Events at the RAS
In the last two weeks the RAS has hosted three very different events. The first, on Tuesday 19th January, was part of the Fresh Perspectives Series of Lectures. Frederica Gigante of The Warburg…
Events, Displays, Archives, Napoleon and Thomas Manning and, of course, Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all our readers. We hope that you had a relaxed and enjoyable time over the festive period and that 2016 will be a successful year for you. As…
