Annabel Gallop

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Annabel Teh Gallop FBA (born 5 August 1961) is a specialist in Southeast Asia, and is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.

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Early life

Gallop was born 5 August 1961 in Winchester, the daughter of Christopher Hugh Gallop and Teh Siok Lay. She attended Sufri Bolkiah English School in Tutong, Brunei, Wadhurst College, and Cranbrook School. She received her BSc from the University of Bristol in 1982. She then studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where she received her MA in 1985 and PhD in 2002. [1]

She married Jonathan Del Mar in 1992; they have two sons. [1]

Career

Gallop was a senior producer for the Indonesian and Malay section of the BBC World Service from 1985–86. [1] She joined the British Library in 1986, and has held the positions of Curator for Maritime Southeast Asia, and Head of the Southeast Asia Section. Her research focuses on the British Library's Malay collections: writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics.

She curated the exhibitions "Early Malay Printing, 1603-1900", "Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia" (1991) and "The Legacy of the Malay Letter" (1994). She has done particular research on Malay seals, including her PhD (2002) on this subject, and the catalogue Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia (2019). She co-directed the British Academy-funded research project "Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean" (2009-2012), which investigated Ottoman links with Southeast Asia. [2]

She received the Darjah Setia DiRaja Kedah in 2014 and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. [3]

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