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Malaysia (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

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Testing the bore of a blowpipe, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/19
Scope and Contents

147 x 104 mm. Showing a Kenyah man looking along the bore of the blowpipe.

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).
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The 4th centenary of the Malacca Diocese (1557-1957), 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/14/4
Scope and Contents

A series of articles by Rev. Fr. Manuel Teixeira tracing the history of the diocese, extracted from the journal 'Rally'.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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‘The antediluvian monster of Batang Padang’, 1960 - 1962

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

Clayton’s description of a large snake he sighted while bathing in the Batang River (2 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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The Astana, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/5
Scope and Contents

143 x 103 mm. View from the driveway of the Palace of the Rajahs of Sarawak. The Astana (built c 1870) consists of a conventional two storey verandahed house in bungalow style fronted by a crenelated stone tower in Gothic taste. This latter housed the billiard room, with the principal reception rooms on the first floor of the main block. In the left background can be seen one of the bedroom wings. The ground floor contained the Rajah’s offices, guardroom, kitchen and bathrooms.

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).
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The Astana, Kuching, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/2
Scope and Contents

133 x 103 mm. View looking across the Sarawak River towards the Rajah’s Palace, with a boathouse on the riverbank in the foreground. For a closer view, see Y3035A/5. [Shelford plate XXVII].

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).
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The author with his Banjarese and Javanese friends [? circa 1912], 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/78
Scope and Contents

138 x 80 mm. Showing Oliver Marks posed in the centre of a group of Banjarese and Javanesemen.

Dates: 1912
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).
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'The bagans', 1962

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

A description of the Chinese fishing villages on the Selangor coast during the early 1930s (3 copies, 9 sheets).

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC47.
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The Baloi Gorge, Rejang District, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/81
Scope and Contents

140 x 103 mm. View looking along the gorge, with dense jungle on either bank.

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).
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The Birch Memorial, Pasir Salak, Perak River, 1921, 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/29
Scope and Contents

80 x 136 mm. Showing the granite obelisk raised in memory of James Wheeler Woodford Birch, first British Resident in Perak, who was murdered in 1875. The inscription, not legible here, reads: 'Here at the fort of Datok Maharaja Lela the Honourable J.W. Birch, First British Resident of Perak, was killed in the performance of his duty on 2nd November 1875'.

Dates: 1921
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).
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The book of William & John by their parents, 2011

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 378/2
Scope and Contents

Copy of a photograph album compiled by John de Lucy’s parents, Peter and Dorothy, documenting his childhood, family life and holidays on the Amherst Rubber Estate near Kuala Lumpur. It concludes with a visit of the family to Britain.

Dates: 2011
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).
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The Borneo Company’s House, Kuching, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/9
Scope and Contents

147 x 103 mm. View from the lawn of the main façade of the Borneo Company headquarters at Kuching, a two storey building with a central projecting entrance porch, verandahed the whole way round the building on both floors. On the ground floor the verandah is supported on whitewashed or stuccoed columns, on the floor above by less substantial wooden posts.

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).
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The Bram River at Claudetown, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/112
Scope and Contents

147 x 103 mm. View looking along the river at Claudetown (Marudi), with a boat moored in the foreground.

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).
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The bridge, Pasir Tomoh, 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 14/9
Scope and Contents

128 x 78 mm. View looking across the wooden bridge towards Malay houses on the farther side.

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).
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The Brookes of Sarawak, 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/21/10
Scope and Contents

Brief history of the dynasty (4 pages).

Dates: 1991
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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The Caves, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/73
Scope and Contents

154 x 202 mm. View of the entrance to one of the Batu Caves.

Dates: 1907
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).
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'The changing matralineal society in Negri Sembilan', 1949 - 1966-06-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/7/6
Scope and Contents

This paper was written as part of a course on Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics during 1948-49. The file also includes correspondence between Gullick and Hugh Bryson (250 sheets).

Dates: 1949 - 1966-06-18
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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'The Chinese Protectorate', 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/9/2
Scope and Contents

An account of the work of the protectorate and one of its officers W.G. Stirling (13 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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The Club, Lipis, Pahang, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/27
Scope and Contents

General view of the club building, a single storey structure of wood and thatch raised above the ground on piles.

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).
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The Corporal and the Costermonger, Borneo Malays. Cakes of gutta jelutong on the Malay schooner Banjerwangi, Sarawak, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/52
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Showing two Malays squatting among sacks of rubber on the deck of the schooner.

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).
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'The court interpreter', 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/29
Scope and Contents

An account of the important part played by interpreters in the administration of justice, illustrated by the example of three Chinese interpreters. The file includes a letter from Shelley to Hugh Bryson (2 copies, 6 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.
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'The crafty crocodile', 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/17
Scope and Contents

Notes on the danger crocodiles posed to humans and animals, and on hunting them. They were arranged by Clayton's daughter, Mrs Stuart McHugh.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
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The Cragh Hotel, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/42
Scope and Contents

133 x 104 mm. View looking along Penang Hill towards the Hotel.

Dates: 1907
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).
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‘The curse that got loose’, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/3
Scope and Contents

An account by Clayton of panic among the inhabitants of Pulau Tioman, caused by the combination of a curse placed upon them with an outbreak of the disease beriberi in 1927. He removed the panic by pretending to dispose of the bark the curse had been written upon (3 copies, 12 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.
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'The Dato's life-saving certificate - and Joe Firm', 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/23
Scope and Contents

An anecdote of how Dato' Jaya Perkasa Che Da Omar bin Mahmud, the State Commissioner of Kemaman, saved a tin mine agent from drowning (5 sheets).

Dates: 1964
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8227C.
 Fonds

The de Lucy family and Malaya

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 378
Dates: 2011
Conditions Governing Access: 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).