Arquivo RAS CEN - Royal Asiatic Society: Centenary

1 archival box

These records are part of the Royal Asiatic Society's Institutional Records and therefore part of the historical records of the Society.

These are part of the institutional records of the Royal Asiatic Society which have been accumulated throughout its history.

In 1923 the Royal Asiatic Society celebrated its Centenary. This archival material contains a scrapbook with Centenary correspondence and invitations, further congratulatory correspondence, material concerning the Centenary Events, and correspondence concerning the publication of a Centenary Volume.

The material was divided into four series:

• RAS CEN/1 - Commemorative Scrapbook
• RAS CEN/2 - Centenary Events
• RAS CEN/3 - Congratulatory Correspondence
• RAS CEN/4 - Centenary Volume

Open. Please contact the archivist using the email address given here. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

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The Minutes of the Council Meetings will give further information regarding the Centenary Celebrations

The chapter, "A History of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1823-1973" by C.F. Beckingham, within "The Royal Asiatic Society: Its History and Treasures", edited by Stuart Simmonds and Simon Digby, published 1979, provides further information regarding the Centenary. Copies of the supplement to the Journal and the Centenary Volume are available in our Library Collections.

The material was catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.