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Rare finds amidst the books of the RAS Library
One of the major projects we are currently working on in the RAS Library is cataloguing our collection of books, most of which were published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The...
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The Sinor Gold Medal for Inner Asian Studies
The Royal Asiatic Society are pleased to announce that the Denis Sinor Gold Medal for Inner Asian Studies will be presented to Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams in 2016.Professor Sims-Williams, image...
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The Joy of Archives - Connecting Stories
This is the bust of Major-General Sir Henry Worsley. It sits, at present, in the Meeting Room of the RAS with other notables such as Henry Thomas Colebrooke and George Henry Noehden. It was...
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Michael Palin to become an Honorary Fellow
On Thursday 22nd January, the RAS will host an Evening with Michael Palin. During the evening Professor Peter Robb, President of the Royal Asiatic Society, will present Michael Palin with an Honorary...
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Forthcoming RAS Lecture - Wajid Ali Shah: The Last King of India
The next RAS Lecture will take place at 6pm on Thursday 9th April when Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones will speak on Wajid Ali Shah: The Last King of India.The lecture will examine the extraordinary story of...
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Michael Palin to become an Honorary Fellow
On Thursday 22nd January, the RAS will host an Evening with Michael Palin. During the evening Professor Peter Robb, President of the Royal Asiatic Society, will present Michael Palin with an Honorary...
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Hong Kong in the 1860s
An enquiry from a student at the Ecole de Louvre, Paris, meant that I needed to locate a photograph album in our collections. Fortunately much of our photographic collection is listed and available on...
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Discoveries to be found in Indian-Mughal and Korean Art
This month's Student Lectures were given by Tara Desjardins and Karin Warch, both PhD students at SOAS. Tara spoke about the glassware found in early Indian-Mughal paintings.Tara Desjardins, under the...
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Happy Birthday Alexander Johnston
Tomorrow (25th April) marks the 240th birthday of Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849), President of the Council of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and a founding member of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was born in...
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My Ship Sailed from China...
Do you ever get songs popping into your head? Not the last one you heard on the radio before you walked out the door or got out of the car, with its annoying habit of running through your head for the...
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The Fall of the Ottomans
On Thursday 14th May, the Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to welcome Dr. Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) who will lecture on The Dardenelles Campaign viewed from both sides of the trenches. This...
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Cataloguing the RAS Japanese Collection
For the last two weeks, I have been cataloguing the R.A.S Japanese book collection. I have come across a number of interesting titles such as “Japan as number one: lessons for America” by Ezra F....
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Live Afghan Music
For our next event in the Student Lecture Series on Tuesday 19th May, we will be taking a break from the usual, and entering into the musical world of Afghanistan.Veronica Doubleday and John Baily have...
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RAS Lecture - The Dardanelles Campaign from both sides of the trenches
Last Thursday, 14 May, saw a busy evening at the RAS. In addition to our Annual General Meeting, we hosted a lecture by Dr Eugene Rogan (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford), on “The Dardanelles...
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Royal Asiatic Society treasures safely rehoused.
We are pleased to announce that three manuscripts belonging to the RAS have been safely rehoused. Cambridge University Library has issued the following statement:Royal Asiatic Society treasures arrive...
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Supplementary Lectures: The West's reception of Zhuangzi, and The Sarashina...
The RAS are pleased to advertise some supplementary lectures in their Spring programme. Next week sees two of these lectures. On Tuesday 26th May we welcome Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Chinese...
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Live Afghan Music and Archival Afghan Langiage
On Tuesday May 19th we were treated to a delightful repertoire of Afghan music, played by Veronica Doubleday and John Baily. Veronica sang a medley of love, wedding and Sufi spiritual songs accompanied...
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Happy Birthday George Staunton: born today in 1781
This day, in 1781, George Thomas Staunton was born at Milford House near Salisbury. Many of you will be aware of his participation in the Macartney embassy to China (1792-1794) when, though still only...
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A Bonanza of Guest Lectures at the RAS
The RAS were treated to two informative lectures this week in their Guest Series. On Tuesday Professor Richard Lynn opened out how the Zhuangzi had influenced Western literature before the first full...
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Searching for Colebrooke's Grave
As I have been delving into the Collections and beginning to organise the archives, my desire to learn more about the Society's 'founding fathers' has grown. I decided to read Rosanne and Ludo Rocher's...
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