This week a copy of the international edition of Revista de Cultura has arrived the Library, and will be added to the Society’s collection of academic journals. This issue of the journal is dedicated to Macao’s arts, history and culture, with contents tying in with the 250th anniversary of the birth of George Chinnery (1774-1852),…| Royal Asiatic Society
I am pleased to say that the catalogue for the Society’s Membership archive has now been published here. This collection forms part of the Society’s institutional archives, and contains mainly 20th-century material which is now housed in nine archival boxes. The collection is further divided into seven series in the catalogue for ease of navigation.…| Royal Asiatic Society
We are pleased to announce that the Society recently added eighteen manuscripts to its Digital Library. They include eleven manuscripts from the Malay collections, and a further seven from the Javanese collections. Together, they represent an important addition to the Society’s digital collections from maritime South East Asia. The Malay manuscripts have been digitized in…| Royal Asiatic Society
Collections Evening 2025 The Society held its annual Collections Evening last Friday (10 April). This year, we were pleased to host three presentations dedicated to different parts of the Society’s important manuscript collection. Before the presentations, Dr Edward Weech, RAS Librarian, gave a brief introduction on how scholarly focus in the field had increasingly concentrated…| Royal Asiatic Society