Tag / Silk Road
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Returning 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 2022 -
Dr. 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 2021 -
Silk 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 2021 -
More 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 2020 -
What’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 2020 -
On 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 2019 -
From 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 -
There’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 2018
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