Annabel Gallop
@BLMalay
Curator for Indonesian and Malay at the British Library
referenceworks.brill.com/display/entrie… 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Years in the making and finally out: the new collaborative entry on Qur'an translations in the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Online, edited by yours truly, nearly 60,000 words long!
In her first published interview with Bloomberg as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary, Rebecca Lawrence bloomberg.com/features/2025-… highlights the use of digitised #Javanese manuscripts from Yogya on Wikisource blogs.bl.uk/digital-schola…
Undangan Menulis: Simposium Internasional Pernaskahan Nusantara XX dan Musyawarah Manassa VIII
Terima kasih @danieleskay atas penhargaannya. Artikel ini boleh dibaca sepenuhnya di sini: academia.edu/10370078/The_l…
Diperada sini maksudnya dihias dengan, ‘ornamented with’. Dr. Annabel Gallop (@BLMalay) ada tulis jurnal yang best betul pasal jidar berhias dalam manuskrip Melayu.
If you are in Singapore on 3 August 2025, I will be talking to the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society at the ACM on 'Ming Ceramics for the Islamic Market: ‘Ninefold circle’ Plates with Arabic Script' seaceramic.org.sg/event/ming-cer…

Exile in Colonial Asia Kings, Convicts, Commemoration ed. Ronit Ricci . Univ of Hawai‘i Pr 2016 PDF is available on on editor's Academia 🔽 academia.edu/42914167/EXILE…
Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Ronit Ricci . Univ of Chicago pr 2011 PDF is available on author's Academia ⬇️ academia.edu/42914180/Islam… PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/islam…
Silver image of a Buddha from Sambas, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, c. 700-800 CE, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.
So proud of @HalizaTV3London 🙏🏽🙏🏽 well deserved. @unimalaya has chosen well!
TAHNIAH! Setinggi-tinggi tahniah diucapkan kepada Puan Haliza Hashim atas pelantikan sebagai Profesor Adjung di Pejabat Naib Canselor, Universiti Malaya. Menerusi pengalaman luas dan kredibiliti dalam bidang kewartawanan, beliau merupakan aset bernilai kepada dunia akademik dan…
Exciting News! ✨The Digital Library Cave database platform has officially been launched, offering unprecedented access to #Dunhuang's cultural treasures. This comprehensive resource integrates over 9,900 digitized sutras and historical documents, along with 60,700 artifacts…
Blog post by Mohammed Khaleel on early Arabi-Malayalam lithographed books printed in Kerala in the 1870s-1880s in the @britishlibrary collection - interesting parallels with early Malay lithographic printing from Singapore blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

MANTRATANTRAM (Monsoon Asia as the Nexus for the TRAnsfer of TANTRA along the Maritime routes, ERC Consolidator Grant 101124214), led by Andrea Acri at the EPHE (PSL University, Paris), will study tantric traditions across Monsoon Asia tantra.hypotheses.org/?fbclid=IwY2xj…

Nice report in @BeritaHarian4 about my catalogue 'Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia' bharian.com.my/rencana/saster… @NUS_Press 2019, following my online talk for the PNM Youtube Wacana Manuskrip Melayu. The book is also available in Indonesia lontar.org/product/malay-…
Join our team in 2026! We're seeking multiple doctoral candidates and postdocs to advance research on manuscripts and other written artefacts at our cluster. Apply now — just over one week left! uhh.de/csmc-jobs
Tony Reid was in KL during the May 1969 riots, as a lecturer in history at UM - this is his report, published in 1970 in Australia malaysiainstitute.anu.edu.au/content-centre…
In loving memory of Professor Anthony “Tony” Reid (1939 – 2025). Tony’s groundbreaking work reshaped the study of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. We are grateful for his brilliance, humility, and guidance. Our deepest condolences to his family and everyone inspired by his legacy.
Obituary of Patricia Herbert (1953-2025), curator for Burmese and head of the Southeast Asia section at the British Library from 1975-1998, and for many years my kind and supportive manager theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…


Seen in @jacobin: A review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025). Read more about one of the latest from SEAP Pubs here! jacobin.com/2025/04/indone…
The tradition of beating bark to produce cloth probably emerged in South China before spreading to Island Southeast Asia. A new article presents barkcloth beaters found on the island of Sulawesi which mark a technological leap from mainland examples: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Kanvas Purbakala on Google Arts & Culture hosts the world’s largest digitized collection of prehistoric rock art from more than 100 Indonesian caves. artsandculture.google.com/project/indone…
WUKUF ARAFAH Besok, jemaah haji Indonesia akan mengikuti wukuf di Arafah. Mohon doa untuk kesehatan, keselamatan, dan kemabruran jemaah haji Indonesia khususnya, dan semua jemaah umumnya...🤲 Jemaah haji di Arafah pun mendoakan yg terbaik utk Indonesia, dan kita semua...🤲