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Correspondence and printed material concerning lectures, and a typescript of one lecture. The material is:

• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir Charles Eliot, 'The History and Monuments of Cambodia', 13 February 1912.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Professor Albert von le Coq, 'Journey and Results of the 4th Turfan Expedition', 18 October 1927.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir E. Denison Ross, 'The Contribution of Hungary to Central Asian Studies with special reference to Csoma de Koros', 12 June 1928.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Sir Aurel Stein, 'A Journey of Archaeological Expedition in South-Western Iran (1933-6)', 11 November 1937.
• Typescript of the lecture given by Professor Kochi Doi on Japanese Myth. The lecture was given on 9 December 1937. The typescript is annotated with a note from Doi to Colonel Hoysted, dated 28 January 1938. With the typescript is an admittance ticket for the lecture and a letter from Harold Powlett to Colonel Hoysted to return the typescript, dated 5 February 1938.
• An album containing correspondence and admittance tickets for lectures held between November 1932 and June 1940.
• Admittance tickets for lectures by Sir Richard O. Winstedt, 'Malaya and the Malays', 13 February 1941; and Dr. H. Buchtal, 'Indian Tales in Islamic Art', 4 March 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Rev. E.R. Hughes, 'The Chinese Collection in the Bodleian Library', 10 April 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Lord Samuel, 'The Hebrew University of Jerusalem', following the Anniversary meeting of 6 May 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Mr Hsiao Ch'ien, 'Some Remarks on Contemporary Chinese Literature', 12 June 1941.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Mr K. de B. Codrington, 'Classical Contacts with Indian Art', 5 March 1943.
• Letter from H.W. Bailey to Sir Richard Winstedt to express his honour at being asked to lecture at the Society, handwritten, dated 23 December 1943.
• Letter from Menier Collin to Sir Richard Winstedt concerning his forthcoming lecture on 'The Ramayana as a work of Art', handwritten, dated 8 April 1944.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Bishop Stephen Neill, 'The beginnings of Tamil Literature' which would follow the presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal to Sir Richard Winstedt, 9 October 1947.
• Admittance ticket for a lecture by Professor Dr. Nihar Ranjan Ray, 'Fundamental Approaches to Indian Art', 24 January 1952, a joint lecture with the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society.
• Newspaper cutting of a short article titled 'Royal Asiatic Society Lectures' in The Times, regarding the Society's new series of popular lectures, including those by Mr A. M. Blackman, Sir Denison Ross, Dr H. R. Hall and Mr Sidney Smith, 15 January 1926.

Correspondence and printed material concerned with lectures and General Meetings held at the Society between 1960-1969.

Meeting Cards, Admittance Tickets and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1970 and 1979.

Meeting Cards, Admittance Tickets and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1980 and 1989.

Meeting Cards, Notices of Lectures Series, and Notices of Change of lecture dates, and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1990 and 1999.

Publicity Posters for 2010-2011. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 7 October 2010: Dr Barbara Brend and Mr Jerry Losty, the Norah M. Titley Memorial Lecture, 'Norah Titley: Tributes and Memories'.
• 14 October 2010: Dr Weipin Tsai, 'Breaking the Ice: the Modern Chinese Postal Service in the Winter Season in the Late Qing period'.
• 11 November 2010: Dr Jennifer Howes, 'Colin Mackenzie's Adventures in India (1784-1821)'.
• 6 January 2011: Dr Caroline Finkel, 'Travelling the Evliya Çelebi Way: Equestrian and Pedestrian Adventures in Northwest Anatolia'.
• 13 January 2011: Dr Andrew Robinson, 'The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic'.
• 10 February 2011: Dr Benedek Péri, 'He has an Excellent Command of Turki since it is the Language of his Forefathers: Turki in Mughal India'.
• 4 April 2011: Nadhra Khan, 'Wall Paintings in a Special Room of the Sikh Prince Kharak Singh's Haveli'.
• 14 April 2011: Mrs Lesley Pullen, 'Naga Material Culture: Mid 19th to Early 21st Century'.
• 9 June 2011: Mr Robert Skelton, 'Some evidence of Material Culture during the Sultanate Period in India'.
• 17 June 2011: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: The Travels of Evliya Çelebi'.

Student Lecture Series:

• 13 October 2010: Yuthika Sharma, 'Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painters, 1770-1857'.
  *24 November 2011: Alyson Wharton, 'The Balyan Family and the Building Operations in the Tanzimat Period; and James Kimball, 'The Soteriological Role and the rsi Kapila according to the Yuktidipika'.
• 8 December 2010: How Wee Ng presented the film, 'Zheng hun qi shi (The Personals)' directed by Chen Kuo-fu, 1998.
• 26 January 2011: Doreen Muller, 'Narrative, Fiction, Documentary - Images of Conflagrations in the City of Edo'; and Tommaso Bobbio, 'Migrants, Slums and the Construction of Citizenship in Gandhi's Ahmedabad (1915-1930)'.
• 23 February 2011: Taka Oshikiri, 'Gathering for Tea in Meiji Japan'; and Martyn Smith, 'Nation and Nutrition in Japan: Food, Physique and Independence'.
• 16 March 2011: Hyunseok Lee, an art performance entitled, 'Exploring Korean Sacred Architectural Aesthetics and their Spiritual Principles using a 3D Animated Documentary Installation'.
• 20 April 2011: Sushma Jansari, 'Megasthenes and Mauryan-Seleucid Relations: Fact or Fiction?'; and Husam al-Mallak, 'Interpreting Nietzsche's Death of God as the Shift of Ethical Foundations from the Religious to the Secular'.
• 18 May 2011: Farouk Yahya, 'Malay Magic and Divination Manuscripts'.
• 15 June 2011: Film, 'Shugendō Now' by Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire.

Photographs from:

• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones', 21 images.
  *18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire', 21 images.

Publicity Posters for 2011-2012. These are all held electronically.

• 13 October 2011: Richard Bowring, 'Bushidō: Yet another invented tradition'.
• 10 November 2011: Briony Llewellyn, 'Painted Embroideries: Interwoven Threads in the Orientalist Images of John Frederick Lewis'.
• 23 November 2011: Dr Fiona Kerlogue, 'Revisiting dance and drama in Bali: interpreting a photo archive for exhibition'.
• 8 December 2011: Dr Randolf G. S. Cooper, 'Afghanistan's Future as Viewed from Hindustan's Military Past'.
• 12 December 2011: Robert Ousterhout, 'Three Intersecting Lives: Archaeologists and Travellers in Ottoman Lands'.
• 12 January 2012: Ming Wilson, 'Dressed to Rule – The Chinese Emperor's Wardrobe'.
• 24 January 2012: Book launch for Rosane and Ludo Rocher, 'The Making of Western Indology'; and Michael J. Franklin, 'Orientalist Jones'.
• 7 February 2012: Dr Monika Bincsik, 'The Japanese Incense Culture and its Lacquer Implements'.
• 16 February 2012: Peng Wenlan, 'The Chinese in Bengal'.
• 8 March 2012: Dr Joya Chatterji, 'An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relations'.
• 3 May 2012: Lady Julia Boyd, 'A Dance with the Dragon: Peking's foreign community, 1860-1949'.
• 14 June 2012: Dr Rogério Miguel Puga, 'The British Presence in Macao and Representations of the Enclave in British Travel Writing'.
• 18 June 2012: Colin Heywood, Book launch for 'The Rise of the Ottoman Empire'.
• 6 July 2012: Paul French, 'The Haunted Last Days of Old China'.

Publicity Posters for 2012-2013. These are all held electronically.

RAS Lecture Series:

• 1 October 2012: Seemah Niaz, 'Mughal and Modernist Influences in Contemporary Pakistani Art'.
• 11 October 2012: Robert Dankoff, 'Explorations of an Ottoman Traveller: Evliya Çelebi'.
• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society.
• 1 November 2012: Garry Alder, 'The Moorcroft Mystery'. 8 November 2012: Jon Thompson, 'Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Artistic Style that emerged during the Reign of Suleyman 'the Magnificent''.
• 15 November: Lucy Anne Hunt, 'Observations on Some Byzantine and Other Christian Manuscripts and Book Covers from the Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean'.
• 13 December 2012: Prof. Uta Lauer, 'Confluence: Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy'.
• 10 January 2013: Prof. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, 'Bhutan's smallpox eradication program: International health and the limits of global influence'.
• 23 January 2013: Dr Christopher Daily, 'Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China', book launch.
• 24 January 2013: 'Sandy Morton Memorial Evening' with speakers Prof. Peter Robb, Mr William Morton, Prof. David Morgan and Prof. François de Blois.
• 14 February 2013: Stuart Laing, '"Unshook till the End of Time" : Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650 – 1975'.
• 19 February 2013: Dr Henk Vynckier, 'Men who loved books': The literary legacy of Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service'.
• 12 March 2013: Prof. Rudi Matthee, 'Safavid Iran and Georgia: How the Dominated Came to Dominate'.
• 14 March 2013: Ben Murtagh, 'Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order Constructions of gay, lesbi and waria Identities on Screen'.
• 11 April 2013: Shihan de Silva, 'African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia'.

• 13 June 2013: Dr Norbert Peabody, 'On the Indian Origin of Nationalism'.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 17 October 2012: Cristina Castillo, 'Prehistoric Cuisine in Thailand: Rice, Beans and Spices'; and Matthew George Phillips, ''A Theatre with Two Stages': Jim Thompson and the Construction of Thainess during the Cold War'.
• 14 November 2012: Richard McClary, 'The Creation of a New Aesthetic: Early 12th Century Rum Saljuq Architecture in Anatolia'; and Juha Komppa, 'Tibet in Chinese Han Imaginings'.
• 16 January 2013: Tanmayee Banerjee, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Indian English Fiction, 1909 – 1930'; and Ying Hwang, 'Chinese Visuality and Europe in the Modern Period'.
• 2- February 2013: Emily Hannam, 'Image and Essence in the Akbarnama'; and Sarah Ashraf, 'Understanding the education and training provided by madaris in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region.
• 17 April 2013: Dhara D. Anjaria, 'Marginalised Colonials? Non-British European Powers in India vis-à-vis the British'; and Katherine Hughes, 'Birds and the Bevelled Style: Early Islamic Carved Wood from the Upper Zerafshan Valley'.
• 15 May 2013: Tanja Tolar, 'Early Islamic Enamelled Glass and its Iconography'; and Sami De Giosa, 'Being a Sultan in Style: Calligraphy and Decoration in The Arts of the Late Mamluk Period'.

Photographs for:

• 30 October 2012: 'A Georgian Evening of Talks, Film and Song to Celebrate Rustaveli', held in collaboration with the British Georgian Society, 2 images. 20 February 2014: lecture and celebration of the collaboration between the Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press, 14 images.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan', 33 images.
• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch, 1 image.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World', 14 images.