Tag / Silk Road
From Singapore to Windsor Castle
This week’s title reflects the breadth of activities which have been happening at, or associated with the Society, its staff and fellows: Donna Maree Brunero of the National University, Singapore gave a…
4 October 2024Visits, Conferences, and Events at the Royal Asiatic Society
As part of the global community of scholars and enthusiasts involved in Asian studies, the Society is always looking for opportunities to develop international partnerships and bring our collections to the attention…
5 July 2024Returning to the Royal Asiatic Society
As you will have read in last week’s blog post, I returned to the Royal Asiatic Society as the Archivist at the beginning of the year. In a series of coincidences I…
14 January 2022Dr. Kate Franklin: Living the Silk Road Everyday in Medieval Armenia
The entrance to the Selim Caravanserai and a view of the Selim Pass, Vayots Dzor, Armenia. Photo by K Franklin
20 September 2021Silk Road Summer School and other Updates
Collections Update: The Society is pleased to announce that from next week (week commencing the 19th July), the Society’s Library will be open to readers on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Readers are…16 July 2021More on the Archives…
This week we continue with the story of progress with the archive collections. In the previous blog post I wrote about the original listing of the items in their boxes and something…
21 February 2020What’s Happening in the Archives?
A new year and decade, and just over five years in post as archivist, I decided it would be a good idea to take stock of the progress in caring for the…
7 February 2020On the Silk Road in London
The Society held its first summer course on the ‘Silk Road’ from the 8th – 11th July. We had 8 attendees and Dr Susan Whitfield lectured on the history of the Silk…
22 July 2019From London to Surat and back to Mashhad
It has been a busy week in the Reading Room. We have had many researchers in looking at different things including Persian manuscripts. Malay manuscripts, Buginese manuscript, manuscripts and drawings from the…
5 July 2019