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The Royal Asiatic Society Collections Open Evening
On Tuesday 26 March 2019, at 6.30pm, the Royal Asiatic Society will host a Collections Open Evening. As with similar occasions in the past, the evening will feature a series of short…
28 January 2019Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900-1981)
We are pleased to announce that the catalogue for the Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales is now available on Archives Hub. This has been a long term project due to the…
25 January 2019There’s lots to see at the RAS!
Earlier this week, Tuesday 20 November, the Society hosted a lecture by Dr Jacob Ghazarian (University of Oxford), titled “The Ancient Silk Road: its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives”. Dr…
23 November 2018Edward Weech (Royal Asiatic Society) – Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society sought…
17 September 2018Ming Dynasty Arrow Vase now on loan at RAS
The Society is delighted to have received this stunning “Arrow Vase” on loan from the Horniman Museum. The loan is made possible thanks to the “Object in Focus” programme, supported by the…
14 September 2018Edward Weech Lecture: Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823, inspired by the model of Sir William Jones’s Asiatic Society of Bengal. From its earliest days, one of the chief ways the Society…
3 September 2018Royal Asiatic Society launches Digital Library
The Royal Asiatic Society is pleased to launch an Online Collections platform, making more of its historic collections available to a worldwide audience, absolutely free. The site can be found here: http://royalasiaticcollections.org/…
31 January 2018New RAS events series underway
We are very excited to hold the next RAS Collections Open Evening on Tuesday 21 November. Like our previous Open Evening earlier this year, the event will feature several talks highlighting different…
13 October 2017South Indian Sanskrit Manuscripts now catalogued online
Records for one of the lesser-known sets of manuscripts in the RAS have now been added to the online catalogue. Kathy Lazenbatt, who was the Society’s Librarian between 2004 and 2014, recently…
5 October 2017RAS receives ‘Conversation piece’, a gift from Professor Francis Robinson
On 16 June, the Society was pleased to host a celebration to mark the acquisition of a new painting, a gift to the Society from Professor Francis Robinson. The painting, Conversation piece…
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