Simon Pulleyn, a longstanding Friend of the Trust, recently drew our attention to a 1985 documentary, Queens’: A Cambridge College, in which the Trust and its first Chair, Sir Harold Bailey, appear in Episode 7, ‘Fellowship’. Two research students visit Sir Harold at the Trust. They are shown around his library in the Iran Room and given a taste of the Pahlavi Zoroastrian scripture, the Bundahišn. As he tells the students, he began work on that edition of the Bundahišn in 1933 but stopped and only resumed his work on …
Digging through the Trust’s Allchin Archive proves rewarding for visiting fellow
At the beginning of March, the Trust welcomed NTICVA (Nehru Trust for the Indian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum) Visiting Fellowhip recipient Professor Arjun Rao. Professor Rao is from the Department of History and Archaeology at Central University, Karnataka, and is currently working on several areas of prehistoric archaeological research, but wanted to visit AIIT during his fellowship in the UK to look at the research papers and notes related to Raymond Allchin’s PhD thesis on prehistoric sites in South India. The trust archive holds a copy of …