Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:

• Correspondence with Dr Klaus Fischer, 12 items, dated 25 March 1969 - 21 March 1971.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr J.C. Marr, held jointly with the Linnean Society, 22 items, dated 30 April 1969 - 25 September 1970.
• Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr R.S. McGregor, 4 items, dated 7 May 1969 - 15 May 1970.
• Correspondence with Miss Margaret N. Bainbridge, 4 items dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with H.T. Norris, 6 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr Skillend, 5 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Professor W.E. Emery, 3 items, dated 7 May 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.C. Harle, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 3 November 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr G.B. Milner, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 15 January 1971.
• Correspondence with G. Seager, 10 items, dated 5 June 1970 - 21 December 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr J.D. Latham, 3 items, dated 17 June 1970 - 13 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Sir Ralph Turner, 1 item, dated 26 June 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr F.R. Allchin, 2 items, dated 31 July 1970.
• Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 4 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 10 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Dr J.G. Coates, 10 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 17 March 1972.
• Correspondence with Hugh Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 June 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor Harry Smith, 4 items, dated 22 June 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Professor C. Dowsett, 9 items, dated 1 July 1971 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with B.D. Doe, 3 items, dated 13 July 1971 - 9 August 1971.
• Correspondence with Helen W. Brown, 3 items, dated 21 July 1971 - 2 August 1971.
• Correspondence with R.W. Skelton, 4 items, dated 9 August 1971 - 20 January 1972.
• Confirmation of lecture by Anthony Hutt, 1 item, dated 9 December 1971.
• Correspondence with D.J. Duncanson, 4 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 28 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor P.L. Gupta, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 5 May 1972.
• Correspondence with Dr John Boardman, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 25 April 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor B. Lewis, 3 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 1 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.D. Barnett, 7 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 8 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor James Barr, 5 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 4 September 1972.
• Correspondence with David James, 4 items, dated 31 May 1972 - 22 February 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor Mary Boyce, 3 items, dated 1 June 1972 - 20 July 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor J.B. Segal, 3 items, dated 6 October 1972 - 13 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 6 items, dated 7 April 1972 - 19 December 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor Maurice Freedman, 4 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 11 July 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr M.A. Shaban, 9 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 12 June 1973.
• Correspondence with F.E. Thompson, 1 item, dated 14 November 1972.
• Correspondence with Professor C.R. Bawden, 8 items, dated 5 December 1972 - 12 August 1974.
• Correspondence with Sir John Pilcher, 2 items, dated 21 January 1973 - 23 January 1973.
• Correspondence with John Leach, 5 items, dated 3 February 1973 - 7 May 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr E.D. O'Flaherty, 4 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr Michael Loewe, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 16 May 1973.
• Correspondence with John Ayers, 5 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 3 October 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr May H. Beattie, 14 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 18 March 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor A.F.L. Beeston, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 6 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Sir Gerard Clauson, 3 items, dated 15 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor C.E. Bosworth, 3 items, dated 21 May 1973 - 13 June 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr R.F. Gombrich, 3 items, dated 22 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
• Correspondence with Professor V.L. Menage, 3 items, dated 29 June 1973 - 31 May 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor W.N. Arafat, 2 items, dated 31 July 1973 - 2 August 1973.
• Correspondence with Dr W.G. Archer, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 3 September 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor E.J.H. Corner, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr John Hansman, 1 item, dated 30 April 1974.
• Correspondence with P.T. Denwood, 4 items, dated 4 June 1974 - 25 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr Susan Skilliter, 4 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Professor D. Wiseman, 2 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 8 July 1974.
• Correspondence with Dr E. Sollberger, 3 items, dated 9 July 1974 - 30 July 1974.
• Internal correspondence regarding lectures, 7 items, dated 24 January 1971 - 15 August 1974.
• Material for the Minorsky Memorial Lecture, 1977.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library; and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987 0ctober to December, 1988, February to June, 1988-89, 1989-90.

Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society:

1989

• 8 June: Dr Julian Raby, Lands of the Grand Signor: European Visions of the Muslim World in the 16th Century.
• 12 October: Dr Mehrdad Shokoohy, Architecture of the Sultanate of Ma'Bar, South India. This was a replacement lecture to the original advertised.

Administrative documents concerned with Lectures and General Meetings:

• Advertising documents and correspondence concerned with the Royal Asiatic Society's celebration of the bicentenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal which took place at the General Meeting of 12 January 1984 with Sir Cyril Philips lecturing on 'The Young Wellington in India'. There was also a lecture held at the British Library, given by Garland Cannon, on 14 March 1984, in connection with their exhibition, 'Sir William Jones and the Asiatic Society of Bengal', which ran from 20 January - 29 April 1984. 14 items, dated 16 March 1978 - 3 July 1984.
• 'Fabric of History', a newspaper article from the Evening Standard about the home of Philippa Scott. The article was kept as she pulled out of giving a lecture at short notice. Dated 21 December 1988.
• Correspondence with Walid Arafat concerning his lecture, 2 items, dated 31 December 1988.
• Letter from Helen Ballhatchett concerning her forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 4 March 1989.
• Letter from Dr I. Raeside concerning his forthcoming lecture, 1 item, dated 24 October 1989.
• Biographical Notes for Christopher Aslet, 3 items, dated 11 December 1989.

There are two sets of Lecture Cards giving dates and names of speakers. Those for the Main Lecture Series also include a list of the Council Members and the dates of Committee Meetings. These cover the dates 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020. The lecture card for 2016-2017 is absent.

The Student Series Lecture Cards cover the dates: 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 (draft), 2014-2015, 2015-2016 when the Series was renamed as 'Fresh Perspectives'.

Publicity material for lectures and book launches in the period 2000-2010. Much of this material is held in digital format.

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.

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'.

Publicity Posters for 2013-2014. These are all held electronically.
RAS Lecture Series:

• 10 October 2013: Prof. Charles Schencking, 'The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan'.
• 14 November 2013: Dr. Christoph Baumer, 'The Bronze Age Culture of Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert, China'.
• 12 December 2013: Dr Ladan Akbarnia, 'Cathay at Court: Far Eastern Inspirations in Some Post-Mongol Persianate Drawings'.
• 16 January 2014: Prof. Hans van de Ven, 'The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the 1911 Revolution, and the Bond Markets'.
• 14 February 2014: Dr Bilha Moor, 'Mosque and Church: Arabic Inscriptions at Shivta in the Early Islamic Period'.
• 13 March 2014: Presentation of the RAS Medal 2014 to Professor Bridget Allchin with a lecture in her honour: Prof Robin Coningham, 'From Oxus to Mysore: the Story of the Allchin Partnership in South East Asian Archaeology'.
• 26 March 2014: Jamie Bunchuk and Matthew Traver, 'Down the Post Roads: On Horseback across East Kazakhstan'
• 6 May 2014: Dame Caroline Humphrey, 'Intellectual Currents across North Asian Borders in the 20th Century-, with presentation of the Richard Burton Memorial Medal.

• 27 May 2014: S. Frederick Starr, 'The Lost Enlightenment: central Asia's Golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane', book launch.

  Student Lecture Series:

• 13 November 2013: David Beamish, 'Answering Back to Europe: Ottoman and North African Journalists in Paris'; and Shivan Mahendrarajah, 'Balance of Power: Re-examining the Relationship between the Kart Dynasty of Herat and the Mystics of Turbat-I Jam, 1307 to 1381'.
• 11 December 2013: Francesca Fuoli, 'The role of ethnography and the study of Pashto in the construction of the Pashtun race in nineteenth century British colonial discourses on Afghanistan'; and Barakatullo Ashurov, 'Material Culture Objects and Structures: on the Social Representations of the Church of the East in Sogdiana'.
• 15 January 2014: Massimiliano Fusari, 'Representing the Visual in Anthropology'; and Azadeh Fatehrad, 'Persian Paintings and Representations of Women during the Timurid Dynasty 1370-1507'.
• 2 April 2014: In-Sung Kim Han, 'Islamic Cultural Presence in Medieval Korea'.
• 7 May 2014: Matteo Miele, 'Mongolian Independence and the British'; and Dr Brainerd Prince, ' Sri Aurobindo and the Question of God'.
• 12 June 2014: Dr Jan-Peter Hartung, 'Of 'Creeds' and 'Guidances': Tradition, Commentary and Canon in the Early Modern Persianate World'.