Tag / Tibet
New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection
The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…
17 February 2023William Carey and the Serampore Trio
Today, 9th June, marks the anniversary of the death of William Carey. Born in 1761, he died on this day in 1834. Having spent most of my childhood in Northamptonshire, Carey was…
9 June 2020Discovering Tibet
Yesterday evening (Thursday 7th February), Dr John Clarke presented his lecture on Tibet. For most of the blog we will be looking at Tibet, but first some other news: Cheryl Porter, Director…
8 February 2019Remembering Michael Pollock, former RAS Librarian
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Michael Pollock on 27th January 2019. He was a former librarian at the Royal Asiatic Society, moving from the British Library…
1 February 2019Dr. John Clarke (V&A Museum) – Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond
Dr. John Clarke is curator of Himalayan and South East Asian Art at the V&A Museum in London. He specialises in the arts of Tibet and of South East Asia, in particular…
17 September 2018Missing Malayalam Manuscripts
We are delighted to feature another blog post from previous RAS Librarian Kathy Lazenbatt, who recently finished cataloguing the RAS Whish Collection of South Indian Manuscripts. When I was re-boxing the RAS…
8 December 2017Exploring Collections
This week is Explore Your Archives Week, a national initiative to celebrate the many and diverse archives held in the UK. For our part of the celebration, we held a Collections Open…
24 November 2017Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1873
I am currently listing all the Personal Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson ready for their entry on Archives Hub. The material has been partly catalogued before and I am keeping approximately…
15 September 2017