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Malaysia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

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Carcosa K.L. [Kuala Lumpur], 1928-08 - 1929-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/25
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Old Malay guns on the lawn looking across the Lake Gardens.

Dates: 1928-08 - 1929-09
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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Carcosa K.L. [Kuala Lumpur], 1928-08 - 1929-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/26
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Interior of dining room.

Dates: 1928-08 - 1929-09
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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Carcosa K.L. [Kuala Lumpur], 1929-01 - 1929-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/28
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Group photo outside Carcosa: Sir William Peel Chief Secretary F.M.S. seated at centre, to his left Raja Musa bin Raja Bot (Selangor), to his right (1) Dato Hamzah(Selangor), (2) Tengku Abdul Rahmam (NS), (3) Encik Hussain bin Taib (Pahang). Dato Abdul Hamid (Kelang) is seated one from the end on the left , front row, and Raja Aman can be seen between Tengku Abdul Rahmam and Dato Hussain, seated in the second row . The Private Secretary (Sheppard) Is standing on the extreme left.

Dates: 1929-01 - 1929-03
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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Carcosa K.L. [Kuala Lumpur], 1928-08 - 1929-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/36
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Miss Duxbury and sentry on porch.

Dates: 1928-08 - 1929-09
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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Carcosa K.L. [Kuala Lumpur], 1928-08 - 1928-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/37
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Ah Boon caretaker for countless years.

Dates: 1928-08 - 1928-08
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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Carcosa, Kuala Lumpur, Residence of the Chief Secretary, 1947, 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/16
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101 x 74 mm. A general view looking across the gardens towards Carcosa

Dates: 1947
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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Cargo boats alongside a coastal steamer, Trengganu [i.e. Terengganu], 1927 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/30
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39 x 60 mm. A view from the steamer looking down onto the crowded rowing boats.

Dates: 1927 - 1929
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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Cars and rickshaws parked in Raffles Square; Singapore, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/35
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105 x 70 mm.

Dates: 1920 - 1925
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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Carved door in a Sibop house, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035A/152
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104 x 116 mm. View of the carved wooden door to the room of Aban Jau, the Sibop Chief, Tinjar River.

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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Catholic Mission, Kanowit, Rajang River, central Sarawak [1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/122
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205 x 153 mm. Showing the mission buildings and wooden church, with jungle in the background.

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).
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Cecil Ross , 1932 - 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/444
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At the box Taiping Hill on honeymoon.

Dates: 1932 - 1936
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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[Celebration of the end of the Emergency: review by the Yang di Pertuan Agong], 1959 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031K/71-107
Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the celebrations.

Dates: 1959 - 1961
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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Centenary souvenir, 1860-1960, Cathedral of the Assumption, Penang, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/14/5
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: 1960
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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Ceremonial carriage taking H.H. Yang di-Pertuan Besar Tuanku Abdul Rahman to the lustration on the occasion of the 3 yearly audiences : drawn by men chosen from surrounding villages, 1934, 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/15
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199 x 150 mm. A view looking across gardens, presumably at the Istana at Sri Menanti, showing a Malay crowd gathering around the decorated carriage in which Tuanku Abdul Rahman and his consort are seated on the way to the Menghadap or three yearly audience.

Dates: 1934
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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Ceremonial traditional court dancers at Sri Menanti, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/114
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197 x 148 mm. Showing the male dancers in the performance also seen in the preceding print. Tuanku Abdul Rahman (1895-1960), who succeeded Tuanku Muhammed as Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan in 1933 can be seen at the left of the central group of spectators.

Dates: 1932
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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Ceremonial traditional court dancers at Sri Menanti, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan, 1932, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 16/113
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197 x 148 mm. Showing two female dancers performing in an enclosed courtyard at Sri Menanti, the astana of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan. With spectators in the background.

Dates: 1932
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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Chanderiang, 1904 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 12/23
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View looking along a street of single storey thatched wooden huts. With a bullock cart and two Chinese figures in the foreground.

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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Changi chimes, printed and published at Changi by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-22 - 1942-11-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/29/3
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Numbers 1-32; 34.

Dates: 1942-03-22 - 1942-11-08
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Changi civilian internment camp: an impression of the male section of the camp in 1943, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/10
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Two copies of a memoir outlining daily activities in the camp, which was given to Hugh Bryson by C. E. Collinge, the Men's Representative to the Japanese. Collinge himself received it from an internee, whose name he had forgotten (14 sheets).

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Changi exile, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/9
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A copy of a reflection written by prisoner of war J. Coutts Milne on 15 Feb. 1945, the third anniversary of his internment in Changi. It is accompanied by a letter to Hugh Bryson (14 sheets).

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Changi guardian, (successor to the Karikal chronicle), printed and published at civilian internment camp, Changi, by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-03-11 - 1943-10-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/29/2
Scope and Contents

Numbers 1-208, 210-262. Sheets are missing from Numbers 75 and 100. Number 209 was withheld by the camp authorities.

Dates: 1942-03-11 - 1943-10-12
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, 31 May 1943, 1943-05-31 - 1945-05-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/2
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The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.

Sheets of press cuttings on the liberation of Singapore, originally stored with the nominal roll, have been moved to RCMS 103/12/22/6.

Dates: 1943-05-31 - 1945-05-31
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Changi internment camp: nominal roll of internees, June, 1942, 1942-06 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/1
Scope and Contents

The nominal roll documents each internee’s name, date entered camp, age, camp address, nationality and pre-war occupation. It is arranged in three parts: men, women and children. Evidence suggests that this was a working document, as it contains annotations in pencil and ink.

Dates: 1942-06 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridg Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Changi scene, 1942 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/37
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A mounted sketch of a male work party.

Dates: 1942 - 1945
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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‘Changkat Rembian (A Haunted Hill)’, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/3/3/3
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Coe’s account of climbing a hill near Tapah which according to local legend was haunted (3 sheets).

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC 47.