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…
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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
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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… -
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
