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Malaysia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2906 Collections and/or Records:

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Market scene, [?] Pasir Datoh, 1914

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 14/6
Scope and Contents

130 x 79 mm. A similar view to BAM 14/4, taken at the same location and on the same day, but showing more of the crowd of Malays gathered for the market.

Dates: 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Kelantan 1914
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Married police Quarters, Tuaran, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3034A/26
Scope and Contents

Showing the group of thatched houses, raised on stilts, of the police quarters at Tuaran.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Buchanan-Smith North Borneo [i.e. Sabah] photographs 1903-09
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Masonry Culvert 315, Bank No. 13. Maximum height on centre line 35 feet [circa 1902], 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 8/5
Scope and Contents

194 x 132 mm. A view from the line looking towards a stepped culvert in the Gunong Pondok Pass on the Taiping-Kuala Kangsar line.

Dates: 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Malayan railways
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Maternity Hospital K.L., 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The origin of this collection is not known, but it appears to have been assembled for a travelling exhibition, and each print is marked Copy neg. Photoscale May 1965. Sources are given where known. Prints are 215 x 160 mm.

Dates: 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photographs of Malaysia 1965
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McDougall Falls, Baram River, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/115
Scope and Contents

104 x 146 mm. View looking up the cascades seen in Y3035A/59.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Descriptive album of the country and people of Sarawak
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Meeting of Federal Council, Kuala Lumpur, February 28th 1927, 1927-02-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/33
Scope and Contents 282 x 225 mm. A group portrait showing the Federal Council in session. Identified on the reverse of the print are: Sir Laurence Nunns GUILLEMARD (1862-1951); Governor of the Straits Settlements 1919-1927; Sir Iskandar SHAH (circa 1881-1938); Sultan of Perak 1918-1938; (Sir) William PEEL (1875-1945): Chief Secretary to F.M.S. Government 1926-1930; Henry Wagstaffe THOMSON (1874-1941): British President, Selangor 1926-1931; Tuanku MOHAMMED; Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri [i.e. Negeri]...
Dates: 1927-02-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Selangor
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Meeting of new settlers to elect village committee, 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/5/34
Scope and Contents

151 x 112 mm. glossy print. Location unidentified.

Dates: 1950 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Church Missionary Society photograph collection / Photographs / Malaysia
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Meeting of Perak State Council at Ipoh, 12th Dec. 1925, 1925-12-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/50
Scope and Contents

105 x 79 mm. A group portrait of members of the Perak State Council, composed of the Sultan, the British Resident, the Secretary to the Resident and various prominent members of the Malay and Chinese communities. The Sultan, Raja Alang Iskander Shah, is seated in the centre of the group with C.W.C. Parr beside him while the Residents Secretary (unidentified) stands with the Chinese and Malay members in the back row.

Dates: 1925-12-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Perak
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Meeting of visiting officials, Seremban, 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/29
Scope and Contents 115 x 87 mm. Showing the visiting British delegation which visited Malaya in mid-1950 to discuss the Emergency, seated round a table with various Malayan officials. Identified in the print are: Datu ABDUL MALEK, Chief Minister, Negri Sembilan; Hugh Patterson, British Adviser; John Noel Douglas HARRISON (1911-), Chief Police Officer; Rt. Hon. James GRIFFITHS (1890-1975), Secretary of State for the Colonies 1950-1951; Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy GURNEY (1898-1951), High Commissioner,...
Dates: 1950
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan and Pahang
 Sub-Series

Memoirs, 1927 - 1963

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/31
Scope and Contents

Reminiscences of some of Walter Stark's work in the Malayan Civil Service as an acting District Officer.

Dates: 1927 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Recollections
 File

Memoranda, 1945-11 - 1946-03

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/5/5/1
Scope and Contents

This file is largely composed of memoranda received or submitted by Onraet in his capacity as police advisor. Subjects include the post-war political climate in Malaya, the resumption of civilian administration, the Malayan Communist Party, citizenship, the Malayan Union, intelligence and security, the Malayan security service, supervision of the press, ethnic divisions and service conditions within the police (150 sheets).

Dates: 1945-11 - 1946-03
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8230.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Crime / Papers of Rene Onraet
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Memorandum: constructive suggestions re suppressing prostitution, 1940-11-05

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/6/5/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: From 1952 to 1967 the Secretary of the Association was Hugh Bryson. He organised the accumulation of two important collections of historical material through the BAM. In 1960, in cooperation with the Royal Commonwealth Society, Bryson initiated the gathering of original documents - memoranda, diaries, correspondence - and the writing of special reminiscences by those with first hand experience of the geographic area covered by the Association. Subjects of particular significance include...
Dates: 1940-11-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Education / Prostitution
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Memorandum on labour in Kedah, 1947-03-27

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/8
Scope and Contents

Discussion of the post-war development of labour issues and trade unionism in Malaya (17 sheets).

Dates: 1947-03-27
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Addenda
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Memorandum on labour troubles in Kelang, 1941-03

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/11
Scope and Contents

Report by the District Officer, J.S.W. Reid, on the causes and course of labour disputes involving the Kelang Indian Union, with advice upon how the conflict may be resolved (4 sheets).

Dates: 1941-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Political and constitutional papers I
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Memorandum on state boundaries, 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/16
Scope and Contents

This is a brief discussion of boundary issues between Malaya and Siam after 1909 (3 sheets).

Dates: 1970
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be viewed on Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Addenda
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Memorandum on the Malayan Emergency, 1948-08

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/33/2
Scope and Contents

A memorandum on the Malayan government's response to the insurgency, probably issued while Churchill was British Advisor, Kelantan. A list of planters and other officials who received it is appended (2 copies, 14 sheets).

Dates: 1948-08
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Recollections / Papers of William Foster Norton Churchill
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Memorial to Captain Light, Penang, 1930 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/53
Scope and Contents 62 x 88 mm. Showing the statue of Captain Francis Light (1740-1794), founder of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in 1786. Light died of malaria on the island and was buried in the old Protestant Cemetery in Northam Road, George Town. The bronze statue designed by Frederick J. Wilcoxson, was originally sited in Fort Cornwallis and was unveiled in 1939. It was removed during the Japanese occupation and re-erected in 1946 in front of the High Court in Light Street. The only known...
Dates: 1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore)
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'Memories of Kemaman District, Terengganu, 1934-1936', 1963

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/28
Scope and Contents

A description of the social life and customs, economic conditions, religious beliefs and recreation of the district's inhabitants (3 copies, 10 sheets).

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Recollections
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Memories of Kuala Lumpur, 1962-02-10 - 1962-04-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/20
Scope and Contents

Two oral history recordings made by Mrs Dorothy Nixon:

1. The end of a road (Batu Road)
Nixon recalls changes in the architecture and occupants of the road during the period from the 1920s to the 1960s (14 minutes).

2. The constant green (Selangor Padang)
Nixon discusses the history of the green and the buildings located near it from its early years as home of the Selangor Club in 1884 to the 1960s (14 minutes).





Dates: 1962-02-10 - 1962-04-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Addenda
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Men poling my boat, seen from interior of boat, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/125
Scope and Contents

As captioned.

Dates: 1904 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / J.B. Scrivenor collection circa 1904-circa 1910
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‘Menuba Ikan (Fishing with juice of the Tuba - Derris Elliptica)’, 1961

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/3/3/5
Scope and Contents

Coe’s account of sport organised in honour of the Sultan Alang Iskandar’s visit to Batang Padang, in which fish drugged with the tuba poison were caught with spears (3 sheets).

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Recollections / Recollections / ‘Some recollections of my tour of duty as District Officer, Batang Padang, July 1924 to Feb. 1927’
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Mersing road, 1931 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/613
Scope and Contents

Showing a straight, tree lined road.

Dates: 1931 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / E.J.H. Corner photographs / Johore [i.e. Johor]
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Military police inspecting identity cards, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/50
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan and Pahang
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Military police inspecting identity cards, 1920 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/51
Scope and Contents

85 x 55 mm. Original.

Dates: 1920 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Missing June 2007.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Photograph collection of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan and Pahang
 Sub-sub-class

Minutes of annual general meetings, 1942 - 1945

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

Dates: 1942 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore / World War II / Archives of Malayan Associations

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