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The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust (RARCT) is a registered UK charity (No. 800617) and supports talented young people through the provision of accommodation in London and financial grants.

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Zeinab Talaat, a PhD Candidate at Assiut University in Egypt, and Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Inspector, spent a month with the Trust in June this year working on her thesis, ‘Architectural and Artistic Discoveries of the Excavations at the Site of Deir El-Balayza in Assiut’. Her report on a very busy and productive stay is now on the Trust’s website - see LINK in BIO Amira Mustafa (visiting scholar 2025) has just completed a successful research trip to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris to continue studying papyri from “The ‘Archive’ of Seti I: Administrative Hieratic Documents from Memphis.”. We were very pleased to provide Amira with a small grant from the Trust’s Hawkins Special Fund (LINK in BIO) to support her during her stay. The Trust’s visiting scholar for July at the house in Highgate was Sarah King, a post-doctoral student of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focusses on ‘Scorpion-men: Insights into an Enigmatic Hybrid’. This short film was created by the Trust’s Co-ordinator, Matthew Holmes. Lukas Manoyan a PhD candidate at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, spent the month of May 2026 working on his thesis, ‘Towards the Genesis of Modern Hermeticism: Between Christosophy and Egyptosophy’. This short film was created by the Trust’s Co-ordinator, Matthew Holmes. Paige Brevick is based in Minnesota in the U S A but registered to study at University College London. She was prevented from pursuing her studies in London by the pandemic but visited the Trust’s Kensington house in October 2025 to advance her research on ‘Ancient Egypt Reimagined: Exhibitionary Strategies in Redesigned Galleries’. Her report has now appeared on the Trust’s website – see LINK in BIO A few weeks ago, on 7 July 2026, the Trust hosted its annual summer concert in the music room in the founder’s former home. Hosted by our Resident Musician, @joseteixeira_basstrombone_ - who also provided the distinctive artwork for the programme - the event covered an eclectic mixture of composers and musical styles. @alexandoronin performed works by Bach and Shostakovich on the piano; the @jasmine_quartet played pieces by Paul Wiancko and Schumann; and Jose - a trombonist - played a piece by Jan Sandström accompanied by Alexander, and, movingly, his own arrangement of several traditional Portuguese songs some of which he had learned as a little boy from his mother. We are thrilled to announce the inauguration of the Robert Anderson Junior Fellowship in Conducting. The fellow will undertake an Artist Diploma, an advanced one-year programme designed for experienced conductors, at the Royal College of Music. It will give them the opportunity to refine their craft and professional confidence through intensive projects based at the RCM and time spent with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Some items from the library of the Trust’s founder, Dr Anderson, are to be sold at auction by Sotheby’s. These include his copy of the second edition of the Description de l’Égypte, and Lepsius’ Denkmäler. We are sad that these volumes will no longer be part of the Trust’s library but they were not kept in suitable conditions for such rare and important items, and as it is not within the Trust’s remit to expend resources on looking after antiquarian books it was felt that it would be better to find a more suitable home for them and to use the proceeds on new initiatives to support young researchers. Konrad NIEMIRA, a post-doctoral student, Polish Academy of Science and the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, spent the month of April 2026 in London in pursuit of his research on ‘Field Experiments. Landscape, Technology and Political Culture in Poland (1764-1795)’. This short film was created by the Trust’s Co-ordinator, Matthew Holmes.

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