School of Oriental and African Studies
There are links to the general information about the SOAS, courses held, its departments, research work, staff, its library, events, galleries, alumni, etc.. SOAS is a major national centre for the study of subjects concerned with Asia and Africa. It has research programmes and postgraduate teaching programmes in the languages and cultures of Asia and Africa (in both their historical and modern forms), and in the social sciences and humanities, including law, political studies, economics, anthropology and sociology, art and archaeology, music, religious studies, linguistic, geography and development studies. Its Library has a bookstock of over 850,000 volumes, approximately 4,500 periodicals and an extensive collection of archives and manuscripts. It covers humanities and social sciences as well as representative collections of literature written in Asian and African languages