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The School of Oriental Studies was founded in 1916 at 2 Finsbury Circus, London, the then premises of the London Institution. The school received its royal charter on 5 June 1916 and admitted its first students on 18 January 1917. For a period in the mid-1930s, prior to moving to its current location at Thornhaugh Street, Bloomsbury, the school was located at Vandon House, Vandon Street, London SW1, with the library located at Clarence House. Its move to new premises in Bloomsbury was held up by delays in construction and the half-completed building took a hit during the Blitz in September 1940. With the onset of the Second World War, many University of London colleges were evacuated from London in 1939 and billeted on universities in the rest of the country. The School was, on the Government's advice, transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1940, when it became apparent that a return to London was possible, the school returned to the city and was housed for some months in eleven rooms at Broadway Court, 8 Broadway, London SW1. In 1942, the War Office joined with the School to create a scheme for State Scholarships to be offered to select grammar and public school boys with linguistic ability to train as military translators and interpreters in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish. Lodged at Dulwich College in south London, the students became affectionately known as the Dulwich boys.
A college of the University of London, in 2011, the Privy Council approved changes to the school's charter allowing it to award degrees in its own name.
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Congratulatory certificates and correspondence to the Royal Asiatic Society from other organisations and societies.
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- Swedish Oriental Society (Subject)
- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- La Société Asiatique de Paris (Subject)
- La Société Belge d'Etudes Orientales (Subject)
- Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Subject)
- American Oriental Society (Subject)
- École Francaises Associe (Subject)
- Palestine Exploration Fund (Subject)
- British and Foreign Bible society (Subject)
- Folklore Society (Subject)
- Philological Society Great Britain (Subject)
- Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences (Subject)
- North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Subject)
- Société Finno-Ougrienne (Subject)
- Danish Oriental Society (Subject)
- Egypt Exploration Society (Subject)
- School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (Subject)
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Subject)
- Burma Research Society (Subject)
- Norwegian Oriental Society (Subject)
- Societatis Nederlandicae Orientalis (Subject)