Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
Annabel Gallop joined the British Library in 1986 as Curator for Maritime Southeast Asia, and almost all her research has been rooted in the Library’s rich collections from the Malay world. Her first exhibition in 1989 was on Early Malay Printing, 1603-1900, followed by Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia (1991) and The Legacy of the Malay Letter (1994). A particular interest in the formal aspects of letters and documents led to her 2002 Ph.D. on Malay seals, yielding her recent catalogue of Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia (2019). Her current work is on the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia. A common thread running through all her research is an appreciation of the material and cultural aspects of manuscripts as a crucial complement to their textual value.
Current post
Head, Southeast Asia section, The British Library
Past appointments
Indonesian-Malay section, BBC World Service Senior Producer
1985 - 1986
Publications
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Annabel Teh Gallop - Published in 2019 by NUS Press
From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia
Edited by Annabel Teh Gallop and Andrew Peacock - Published in 2015 by OUP/British Academy
Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain: a catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections
M C Ricklefs, P Voorhoeve and Annabel Teh Gallop - Published in 2014 by Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Lasting impressions: seals from the Islamic world
Annabel Teh Gallop and Venetia Porter - Published in 2012 by Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
The legacy of the Malay letter: Warisan Warkah Melayu
Annabel Teh Gallop - Published in 1994 by British Library for the National Archives of Malaysia
Early views of Indonesia: Pemandangan Indonesia di masa lampau
Annabel Teh Gallop - Published in 1995 by The British Library / University of Hawai'i Press
Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia / Surat emas: budaya tulis di Indonesia
Annabel Teh Gallop and Bernard Arps - Published in 1991 by The British Library / Yayasan Lontar
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
Professor Şevket Pamuk FBA
Economic history of the Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Turkey and Europe during early modern and modern eras; money, wages, prices, trade, state finances, economic growth, institutions and institutional change
Professor Rosemary Foot FBA
International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance
