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GB 891 RAS MEMB-RAS MEMB/5-RAS MEMB/5/2-RAS MEMB/5/2/7
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Published
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Date(s)
- October 1963 (Creation)
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Biographical history
Peter Collin was head of French in the Department of European Languages and Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He returned to the UK in 1973 to work for Harrap, publishers of schoolbooks and dictionaries before starting his own publishing house, P H Collin in 1985, which was acquired on his retirement in 2002 by Bloomsbury. Since 1973 Peter is an active member of the Society and has served continuously on many committees including several
turns on the Council.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
Typed article titled ‘Peter Collin and the RAS’ by Peter Collin, being a personal account of his connection with the Society, July 2020, including an introduction by him on the early members of the Society, written between 2017 and 2020. The introduction was later published online on the RAS website in ‘Founding Members of the Society Prosopography’.
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