Photographs from:

• 18 September 2018: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Arrow Vase: From Ritual to Game', 6 images.
• 20 September 2018: Dr Gulfishan Khan, 'The Indo-Persian elite and the Formation of Orientalist Tradition', 5 images.
• 4 October 2018: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'My Dear Schonberg: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein', 5 images.
• 11 October 2018: Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, 'The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture', 2 images.
• 25 October 2018: Professor Anna Contadini, 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean', 23 images.
• 2 November 2018: Dr George Michell and Dr Helen Philon, 'Islamic Architecture of Deccan India', book launch, 7 images.
• 6 November 2018: Professor Donald Rayfield, Dr. Gillian Evison and Ms. Lia Chokoshvili, 'Unlocking the Door: Writing from Georgia', 16 images.
• 7 November 2018: Omar Khan, 'Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj', book launch, 6 images.
• 15 November 2018: Moin Mir with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Prince who Beat the Empire', book launch, 6 images.
• 20 November 2019: Dr Jacob Ghazarian, 'The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives', 5 images.
• 11 December 2018: Professor Ian Gow, 'The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887): Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathematician', 5 images.
• 10 January 2019: Dr Cailah Jackson, 'The Arts of the Book in a Time of Conflict: Manuscripts of Late Medieval Konya', 6 images.
• 7 February 2019: Dr John Clarke, 'Collecting Tibet at the South Kensington Museum: the legacy of the 1904 expedition and beyond', 4 images.
• 19 February 2019: Dr Oliver Crawford, 'The Languages of Indonesian Socialism', 5 images.
• 26 February 2019: Deborah Freeman Fahid, 'The Ager Rock Crystal Chessmen: Some Early Medieval Imports from the Iranian World?', 3 images.
• 7 March 2019: Dr Jharna Gourlay, 'Forceps, Stethoscopes and Sisterhood: British Female Doctors in 19th Century India', 3 images.
• 14 March 2019: Dr Yossef Rapoport, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo', 3 images.
• 19 March 2019: Ursula Sims-Williams, 'Tipu Sultan's Library: Building a Collection', 4 images.
• 11 April 2019: Dr Rayna Denison, 'The Hidden History of Studio Ghibli: Short Films, Advertising and the Industrial Reality of Japanese Animation', 2 images.
• 23 April 2019: Dr Talat Ahmed in conversation with Professor David Arnold. 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience', book launch, 2 images.
• 25 April 2019: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, 'When Tehran was the Brightest Star: A Global History of the 1979 Iranian Revolution', 3 images.
• 2 May 2019: Philip Davies, 'Lost Warriors - Seagrim and Pagani of Burma - The Last Great Untold Story of WWII', 3 images.
• 9 May 2019: Professor Jonathan Phillips, ''Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era', 11 images.
• 13 May 2019: Nawal Nasrallah, 'Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table: A Fourteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook', book launch, 9 images.
• 21 May 2019: Cheryl Porter, 'Painting Manuscripts with Metal and Insects: Grind or flatten, catch and cook', 8 images.
• 29 May 2019: Dominic Faulder, 'Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand', book launch, 6 images.
• 6 June 2019: Edward Weech, 'Systems of Religion and Morality in the Collections of the Royal Asiatic Society', 3 images.
• 18 June 2019: Susan Stronge, 'The Lapidary Arts of the Mughal Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries', 5 images.
• 27 June 2019: Dr Ravinder Reddy, 'Numinous Imagery on Arms and Armour of the Indian Subcontinent', 4 images.
• 30 July 2019: Dr Sarah Tiffin, 'Raffles and the Course of Empire: Decoding Ruin Imagery in the History of Java' 5 images.

Photographs from:

• 12 October 2017: Russell Harris, 'A Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne', 4 images.
• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch, 6 images.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch, 4 images.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870', 4 images.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan', 7 images.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an', 8 images.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection', 4 images .
• 7 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China', 6 images.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911', 5 images.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launch with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson, 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930', 4 images.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India', 3 images.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh', 5 images.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880', 4 images.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum', 4 images.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam', 9 images.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch, 3 images.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran', 5 images.
• 27 March 2018: Drs George Michell and Gethin Rees 'Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats', 6 images.
• 10 April 2018: Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti (editors), 'Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb', book launch, 13 images.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum', 8 images.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch, 9 images.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century', 2 images.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives', 4 images.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia', 6 images.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'; and 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)' , 9 images.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context', 3 images.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch, 5 images.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West', 3 images.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic', 8 images.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018, 8 images.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch, 14 images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2017-2018. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 26 October 2017: Dr Yuka Kadoi, 'Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 26 October 2017: Professor Francis Robinson, Marion Molteno and Dr Rakjshanda Jalil. 'A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose" A new edition of Ralph Russell's translations with introduction by Marion Molteno', book launch.
• 2 November 2017: Charles Allen, 'Coromandel: A Personal history of South India', book launch.
• 9 November 2017: Dr Andrew Arsan, 'Beyond Formal and Informal Imperialism: Beirut, Hong Kong, and the Growth of European Power, c.1830-1870'.
• 16 November 2017: Professor David Park, 'Preserving the Buddhist Wall Paintings of Bhutan'.
• 21 November 2107: RAS Collections Evening.
• 23 November 2017: Dr Elaine Wright, 'Lapis and Gold: Exploring Chester Beatty's Ruzbihan Qur'an'.
• 4 December 2017: Mark Condos, 'The Insecurity State', book launch.
• 7 December 2017: Dr Diana Lange, 'Exploring Tibet in the Mid 19th Century: The British Library's Wise Collection'.
• 13 December 2017: David Leffman, 'William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China'.
• 11 January 2018: Professor Christopher Fuller, 'European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c.1871-1911'.
• 17 January 2018: "Anglo-Indian and Minority Politics in South Asia" by Uther Charlton-Stevens, 'Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962" by Elisabetta Iob, "Urbanisation, Citizenship and Conflict in India Ahmedabad 1900-2000" by Tommaso Bobbio; book launches with introduction by Professor Francis Robinson.
• 18 January 2017: Dr Mark Condos, 'Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930'.
• 23 January 2018: Dr Alban von Stockhausen, 'Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India'.
• 8 February 2018: Dr Annabel Gallop, 'The Great Seal of Aceh'.
• 20 February 2018: Amy Matthewson, 'Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in 'Punch' Magazine, 1874-1880'.
• 26 February 2018: Rohan Deb Roy, 'Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909', book launch.
• 6 March 2018: Professor Mercedes Volait, 'The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum'.
• 8 March 2018: Dr Peter Webb, 'Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam'.
• 15 March 2018: Robert Irwin, 'Ibn Khaldun', book launch.
• 20 March 2018: Dr Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, 'An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical illustration between Europe and Iran'.
• 12 April 2018: Dr Omniya Abdel-Barr, 'K.A.C. Creswell's Photographic Archive at the V&A Museum'.
• 17 April 2018: Professor Francis Robinson, 'Jamal Mian', book launch.
• 19 April 2018: John Falconer, 'A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments: Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century'.
• 26 April 2018: Dr Alex McKay, 'The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives'.
• 3 May 2018: Professor Anthony Stockwell, 'Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia'.
• 15 May 2018: Dr Deniz Tuerker, 'The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape and Visibility'.
• 17 May 2018: Dr. Indira Viswanathan Peterson, 'The Royal Asiatic Society's recruitment of elite Indians in its foundational years, making specific reference to the relationship between the RAS's VP Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849) and King Serfoji II of Tanjore (r. 1798-1832)'.
• 24 May 2018: Dr Susan Whitfield, 'Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road'.
• 29 May 2018: Dr Ashmita Khasnabish, 'Indian Imagination in a Postcolonial Context'.
• 31 May 2018: Nancy Charley, 'Feart', book launch.
• 7 June 2018: Dr. Umberto Bongianino, 'Like Sweet-Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West'.
• 14 June 2018, Professor Ornit Shani, 'How India became democratic'.
• 15 June 2018: John de Lucy, 'The Chinese Labour Corps 1917-1920 & their role in the First World War'; and Frances Wood, 'Essential but Unacknowledged: The Contribution of the CLC in WW1', lectures as part of the British Chinese Armed Forces Heritage Exhibition Roadshow at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 May-18 June 2018.
• 18 June 2018: Professor Robert Dankoff, 'Ottoman Explorations of the Nile', book launch.
• 11 July 2018: Farrukh Husain & Victoria Schofield, 'Afghanistan in the Age of Empires'.

The Report and Financial Statements for the Society were no longer published in the Society's Journal after 2011. Therefore these have been included within these archives. The material available for the Anniversary General Meetings from 2016-2020 is:

2016

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 12 May 2016, with Election of Council Members, 3 pieces.
• Signed Minutes of the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2015, 14 pieces.
• Poster for Anniversary Lecture given by Denis Sinor Medal Winner, Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams. The presentation of the medal took place at the AGM. The lecture was entitled The Bactrian Archives: Reconstructing the Lost History of Ancient Afghanistan. Printed, 2 pieces.

• Photographs from Anniversary Lecture and presentation of the Medal, 5 digital images.

  2017

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 11 May 2017, with Election of Council Members, 1 piece.
• Signed Minutes of the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2016, 16 pieces.
• Poster for Anniversary Lecture given by Professor Susan Bayly. The lecture was entitled Beyond 'Propaganda': Images and the Moral Citizen in Late-Socialist Vietnam. Printed and Digital copies.

• Photographs from Anniversary Meeting and Lecture, 6 digital images.

  2018

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 10 May 2018, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes of the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2017, 15 pieces.
• Poster for Anniversary Lecture given by Professor Charles Melville. The lecture was entitled The Illustration of Mirkhwand's Raudat al-Safa in RAS Ms. Persian 38. Digital copy and printed copy.

• Photographs from Anniversary Meeting and Lecture, 7 digital images.

  2019

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 9 May 2019, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Signed Minutes of the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2018, 16 pieces.
• Poster for Anniversary Lecture given by Professor Jonathan Phillips. The lecture was entitled 'Saladin, we have returned!': The Myriad Memories of the Crusades in the Near East during the Modern Era. Digital copy and printed copy.

• Photographs from Anniversary Meeting and Lecture, 5 digital images.

  2020
  In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Anniversary General Meeting was held via the online platform, Zoom. The material includes:

• Agenda for the Anniversary General Meeting, 22 October 2020, with Election of Council Members, 2 pieces.
• Minutes of the AGM, 1 piece.
• Royal Asiatic Society Report and Financial Statements for the year ending December 2019, 17 pieces.
• Photographs from the preparations for the Zoom AGM, 4 digital images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2016-2017. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

• 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch.
• 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior'.
• 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation'.
• 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen'.
• 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today'.
• 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives'.
• 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies'.
• 7 November 2016: Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, 'Lux Imperium, Colonial Film at Home: Amateur Movies of the British Empire taken from the Bristol Records Office Collection', film and talk.
• 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum'.
• 21 November 2016: H.J. Noltie, ' "Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: the Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie' and 'The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845-1860', book launches. (Physical document.)
• 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820'.
• 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions'.
• 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch. (Physical document.)
• 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan'.
• 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)'.
• 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors'.
• 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch.
• 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations'.
• 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals'.
• 16 February 2017:, Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch.
• 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch.
• 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian.
• 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia'.
• 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600'.
• 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton'. (Physical document.)
• 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia. (Physical document.)
• 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, Architecture and Landscape in Marwar'.
• 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878'.
• 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation'.
• 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch.
• 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing'.
• 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran'.
• 15 May 2017: George Kam Wah Mak, 'Protestant Bible Translation and Mandarin as the National Language of China', book launch.
• 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World'.
• 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?'.
• 23 May 2017: Collections Evening.
• 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe'.
• 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career: A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS'.
• 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century'.

Photographs from:

• 12 September 2016: Hasan Ali Khan, 'Constructing Islam on the Indus', book launch, 2 images.
• 27 September 2016: Dr Rose Kerr, 'Statue of Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior', 10 images.
• 13 October 2016: Dr Chandrika Kaul, 'The BBC and India: Mediating Empire, War and Decolonisation', 8 images.
• 18 October 2016: Marion Molteno, 'Ralph Russell's The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen', 15 images.
• 24 October 2016: Professor Karel Werner, 'Pure Yoga in its Historical Context and Today', 1 image.
• 26 October 2016: David Waterhouse, 'Brian Hodgson and the RAS - Fresh Perspectives', 3 images.
• 2 November 2016: Dr Mark Watson, 'Nepal: The Early years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies', 8 images.
• 7 November 2016: Francis Gooding and Noah Angell, 'Lux Imperium, Colonial Film at Home: Amateur Movies of the British Empire Taken from the Bristol Records Office Collection', film and talk, 5 images.
• 8 November 2016: John Baily, 'War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale', book launch, 4 images.
• 10 November 2016: Dr Imma Ramos, 'From Akbar to Ambedkar: Retelling of the Story of South Asia at the British Museum', 2 images.
• 21 November 2016: H.J. Noltie, 'Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: the Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie' and 'The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings, 1845-1860', book launches, 7 images.
• 6 December 2016: Professor Jordan Goodman, 'Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and Chine, 1780-1820', 2 images.
• 8 December 2016: Arthur Milner, 'Damascus Tiles: Some Enduring Questions', 5 images.
• 12 December 2016: Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander. 'Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War', book launch, 11 images.
• 14 December 2016: Professor Nile Green, 'The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-Taliban Afghanistan', 1 image.
• 12 January 2017: Dr Edward Anderson, 'Hindu Nationalism Abroad: The Indian Diaspora and Hindutva's Early Transnational Development (1946-77)', 7 images.
• 18 January 2017: The Hon. James Stourton, 'Reflections on Chinese Porcelain Collectors', 7 images.
• 26 January 2017: Elisabeth Leake, 'The Defiant Border', book launch, 2 images.
• 9 February 2017: Stéphane Pradines, 'The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New evidence from archaeological excavations', 2 images.
• 14 February 2017: Dr Arthur Dudney, 'The Literature of Decline under the Late Mughals', 4 images.
• 16 February 2017: Richard P. McClary, 'Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220', book launch, 3 images.
• 23 February 2017: Nancy Charley, 'Little Blue Hut', book launch, 12 images.
• 2 March 2017: Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962', book launch, 7 images.
• 2 March 2017: Joint lecture with the Armenian Institute, Patrick Donabedian, 8 images.
• 7 March 2017: Professor Sheila Blair, 'Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia', 7images.
• 9 March 2017: Dr Roy Fischel, 'Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600', 13 images.
• 14 March 2017: Edward Weech and Nancy Charley, 'Exploring the Royal Asiatic Society Archives: In the Footsteps of Thomas Manning and Sir Richard Burton', 8 images.
• 28 March 2017: Prof Robert Ousterhout, 'Palmyra through the lens of John Henry Haynes: Legendary City, forgotten photographer, and monuments in peril', with Cornucopia, 13 images.
• 7 April 2017: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'Architecture and Landscape in Marwar', 7 images.
• 18 April 2017: Dr Martin Bayly, 'Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878', 14 images.
• 27 April 2017: Tara Purnima, 'Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation', 7 images.
• 28 April 2017: Dr Bruno de Nicola, 'Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206 - 1335', book launch, 7 images.
• 4 May 2017: Armenian Institute lecture, Dr Claude Mutafian, 'The Magic of Writing: A Survey from Stone Inscriptions, Illuminated Manuscripts to Printing', 5 images.
• 8 May 2017: Professor Nobuaki Kondo, 'Islamic Law and Society in Iran', 1 image.
• 16 May 2017: Dr Simon Layton, 'Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World', 5 images.
• 22 May 2017: Professor Jonathan Bloom, 'Silk Road or Paper Road?', 3 images.
• 8 June 2017: Dr Peter Frankopan, 'Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe', 23 images.
• 13 June 2017: Burzine Waghmar, 'The East is a Career': A Centennial Appreciation of SOAS', 10 images.
• 15 June 2017: Armenian Institute Lecture, Dr Yolande Crowe, 'Armenian Merchants and Kϋtahaya Potters in the 18th Century', 1 image.

Photographs from:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fields: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu', 3 images.
• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry', 2 images.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)', 5 images.
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: the influence of palace women on Hindustani music', 5 images.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah', 4 images.
• 17 November 2015: 'Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami', 6 images.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture', 8 images.
• 14 December 2015: George Bryan Souza and Jeffrey S. Turley, 'he Boxer Codex,' book launch, 7 images.
• 15 December 2015: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th century Philippine Island', 4 images.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World', 4 images.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah, football', film screening with discussion, 2 images.
• 26 January 2016: Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey, 'Excavating the City: Reginald Campbell Thompson's Moving Images of Mosul', film screening plus lecture, 7 images.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship' 9 images.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East', 5 images.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period', 4 images.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India', 3 images.
• 18 March 2016: Dr John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', 4 images.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch, 9 images.
• 6 April 2016: Florence D' Souza, 'Knowledge, mediation and empire', book launch, 5 images.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch, 5 images.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer', 6 images.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China', 10 images.
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century', 6 images.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch, 6 images.
• 27 May 2016: 'Presentation of a Festschrift in honour of Professor David O. Morgan', 56 images.
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia', 10 images.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918', 9 images.
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 2 images.
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London', book launch, 1 image.
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives', 3 images.
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch, 9 images.
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch, 6 images.
• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith', 11 images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2015-2016. These are a mixture of physical and electronic documents.

RAS Lectures and Book Launches:

• 4 September 2015: Professor Sarah Moate, 'The Moon of the Fileds: the Calligraphy and Poetry of the Japanese Jōdo-shū nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu'.
• 8 October 2015: Professor Janice Stargardt: 'The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)'.
• 12 November 2015: Dr Ben Outhwaite, 'Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah'.
• 18 November 2015: Liana Siaf, 'The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy', book launch.
• 10 December 2015: Dr Kaveh Bakhtiar, 'The British Mosque: Fragments of an alternative architecture'.
• 21 January 2016: Ashvin Kumar, 'Inshallah football', film an ddiscussion.
• 11 February 2016: Dr Sir Jim Mallinson, 'A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship'.
• 10 March 2016: Professor Emerita Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'Scribes and Libraries in the Mamluk Period'.
• 16 March 2016: John Whelpton, 'Jang Bahadur in Europe; the First Nepalese Mission to the West', celebrating the bicentenary of Britain and Nepal, 1816-2016.
• 31 March 2016: Thomas Bell, 'Kathmandu', book launch.
• 12 April 2016: Isabella Tree, 'The Living Goddess', book launch.
• 14 April, 2016: Dr Jenny Balfour-Paul, 'Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer'.
• 25 May 2016: George Manginis, 'Mount Sinai: A History of travellers and Pilgrims', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 26 May 2016: Celia Washington, 'Artist in Residence: Celia Washington and the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre'. (Electronic document.)
• 1 June 2016: Professor William Lubenow, 'West to East/ East to West: The Royal Asiatic Society and Western Knowledge of Asia'.
• 9 June 2016: Professor Sarah Ansari: 'India at War: The Bombay presidency's 'Home Front', 1914-1918' (Electronic document).
• 13 June 2016: Konrad Hirschler,' Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library', book launch with introduction by Doris Behrens-Abouseif. (Electronic document.)
• 15 June 2016: Nile Green, 'The Love of Strangers - What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London' book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 21 June 2016: Shireen El Kassem, 'Mamluk helmets (1250-1517): new perspectives'. (Electronic document.)
• 23 June 2016: Michael Loewe, 'Problems of Han Administration', book launch. (Electronic document.)
• 29 June 2016: Ilker Evrim Binbaş, 'Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran', book launch. (Electronic document.)

• 24 August 2016: Dr Nassar Mansour, 'Muhaqqaq: Furthering the Aesthetic of Faith'. (Electronic document.)

  Fresh Perspectives Series:

• 16 September 2015: Dr Fozia Bora, 'Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids' books? An historiographical enquiry'. (Electronic document.)
• 20 October 2015: Dr Richard Williams, 'Songs from behind the curtain: The influence of palace women on Hindustani music'.
• 17 November 2015: Azadeh Fatehrad, 'An Evening with Nizami'.
• 8 December 2105: John Earle, 'British Vice-Consul and Local hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th-Century Philippine Island'.
• 19 January 2016: Frederica Gigante, 'Collecting Islamic Art in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World'.
• 23 February 2016: Benedict Leigh, 'C.R. Ashbee's Vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East'.
• 15 March 2016: Nicholas Reese, 'Thieves, Cutthroats and Vagabonds, European Mercenaries in Eighteenth-Century India'.
• 19 April 2016: Charlotte de Blois, 'Hints of the Heterodox in Christian Images from China'. (Electronic document.)
• 17 May 2016: Cam Sharp Jones, 'Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th Century'.(Electronic document.)

Photographs from:

• 9 October 2014: Professor Paul Brass, 'Criminalization of Politics in India, 2 images.
• 21 October 2014: Fan Yang, 'Fansub groups in China: When Independent translation meets the market'; and Sami Winton, 'Ritual and survival amongst the Malay community in Cape Town', 6 images.
• 13 November 2014: Professor Paul Bailey, 'Chinese Workers in World War One France', 6 images.
• 25 November 2014: Simon Denham, 'Identity and Power in Neolithic stamp seals from Greater Mesopotamia, 4 images.
• 3 December 2014: Angela Beecher, 'A Look Behind the façade: Critical Inquiries into China's Monumental Architecture in Contemporary Chinese Art'; and Cleo Roberts, 'Waterscapes in Indian Cities', 2 images.
• 11 December 2014: Dr Sussan Babaie, 'A nān-o halvā (Bread and Sweets) in the V&A: Thoughts on the Aesthetics of 'taste'', 1 image.
• 15 January 2015: Dr Santanu Das, 'British India and the First World War: Words, Objects and Images', 3 images.
• 23 January 2015: Michael Palin, lecture plus presentation of Honorary membership, 8 images.
• 12 February 2015: Professor Phiroze Vasunia, 'Sir William Jones and the Gods of Greece, Italy and India', 5 images.
• 17 February 2015: Ünver Rüstem, 'Justice Conquest and Victory: The Evolving Symbolism of Istanbul's Nusretiye Mosque', 5 images.
• 12 March 2015: Dr Chi-kwan mark, 'Not for (Re)turning: Margaret Thatcher and the Anglo-Chinese negotiations over the Future of Hong Kong', 4 images.
• 17 March 2015: Maurizia Onori, 'Turkish bath, Indian restaurant and funky bar: The fate of an oriental building in the East End of London'; and Aisa Martinez, 'Omani Costumes', 5 images.
• 9 April 2015: Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah', 12 images.
• 21 April 2015: Karin Warch, 'Humour and Eighteenth-Century Korean Art'; and Tara Desjardins, '18th century Indian-Mughal glass', 11 images.
• 19 May 2015: Professor John Baily and Veronica Baily, 'Live Afghan Music', 7 images.
• 26 May 2015, Professor Richard John Lynn, 'Early reception of the Zhuangzi in the West', 3 images.
• 27 May 2015: Professor Sonja Arntzen, 'The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's life in 7th century Japan', 4 images.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited', 3 images.

Publicity posters for Lectures and Book Launches from 2014-2015. These are held electronically.

• 14 October 2014: Dr Sharmina Mawani and Dr Anjum Mukadam, 'Researching Gujarati Identities: Current Perspectives'.
• 19 November 2014: Alexander Monro, 'The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the Wolrd's Greatest Invention', book launch.
• 4 June 2015: Melissa Dale: 'Discovering the Real Lives of China's Emasculated Servants: Chinese Eunuch History Revisited'.