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Malaysia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

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[European social gathering, Malaya, ? 1920s], 1920 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/86
Scope and Contents

202 x 152 mm. Group photograph of Europeans gathered in restaurant. No identifications. Location unknown.

Dates: 1920 - 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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[Europeans picknicking, ? Kota Bahru], 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 14/5
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Showing groups of Europeans seated on mats on the ground beneath palm trees. Occasion unidentified.

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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Evacuation from Singapore of selected Europeans and method of issuing exit permits, 1960 - 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/4/4
Scope and Contents

This file includes statements submitted by Governor Sir Shenton Thomas; L. Rayman, President of Singapore Municipality; H. Fraser, Acting Colonial Secretary; S. M. Middlebrook, Immigration Officer; Mr. Justice J. Aitken; and F. M. G. McConechy, Senior State Engineer, Public Works Department (36 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8329.
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E.W. Birch raising the Perak flag at the ceremony of the taking over of Rahman (or Reman) from Siam, July 16 1909, 1909-07-16

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 3/48
Scope and Contents 154 x 105 mm. A group photograph showing Siamese, and Malysian and Indian police, and British officials grouped round the flagpole at Klian Intan after the ceremony by which Siam ceded responsibility for the territory to the British. In front of the police force of the two powers stand (from left to right): Siamese police inspector; Inspector SIMPSON, Perak Police; J.D. KEMP: Manager of the Rahman Tin Co.; Hubert BERKELEY (1864-1942); M.S.C. 1886-1926; District Officer, Upper Perak...
Dates: 1909-07-16
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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[? Examining soil sample, 1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/39
Scope and Contents

243 x 188 mm. Showing a young Malay, presumably an agriculturalist, examining a large sod of earth in which a root is embedded.

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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Exhibition Kemaman River , 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/201
Scope and Contents

East Coast fishing methods.

Dates: 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).
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Exhibition Kemaman River , 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/202
Scope and Contents

East Coast fishing methods.

Dates: 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).
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Exhibition Kemaman River , 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/204
Scope and Contents

East Coast fishing methods.

Dates: 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).
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Exit Klang, 1960 - 1969

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

W. D. Brown narrates his work as an Air Raid officer while attempting to maintain services at the bank he managed at Klang until the town was evacuated in Jan. 1942.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Extract from the 'Bengal Harkaru', 30 May 1827, relating to the rights of Siam in Queda, accompanied by a letter from G. Swinton asking whether the article was written by Burney, 1827-11-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/19/7
Scope and Contents

8 pages. A copy of the 'Bengal Harkaru', 30 May 1827, is also included.

Dates: 1827-11-23
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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Extract from the diary of A.P. Ross, 1960 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/7
Scope and Contents Ross escaped from Singapore by the ship ‘Kuala’ on 13 Feb. 1942 and eventually reached England in May 1942. The extract refers to the period when he was joined by Sub. Lieutenant Alexander Woodrow Stuart Sim of the R.N.V.R. and others after the ship was sunk by the Japanese on 14 Feb. Ross parted company with Sim on the Dutch island of Sinkep on 25 Feb. where the latter was awaiting treatment for a wound. The file is accompanied by a letter from M. E. Cook to the Ministry of Defence...
Dates: 1960 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Extracting the seeds of raw cotton in a cotton gin, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3035G/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.

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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Eyewitness account of the destruction of the Russian cruiser Zemshug, 1961-09-12

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

An account of the attack of the German cruiser Emden upon Penang on 28 Oct. 1914, in which it sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet (2 sheets).

Dates: 1961-09-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
 Sub-sub-class

F beccarii [i.e. Ficus beccarii] and Latifolia, Ranau, 1960-08

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1435-1436
Scope and Contents

Showing two men beneath a small tree or bush.

Dates: 1960-08
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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F. benjamina [i.e. Ficus benjamina], Ranau, 1960-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/1483
Scope and Contents

Trees.

Dates: 1960-08
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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F. M. S. Railways Central Offices, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 17/64
Scope and Contents

206 x 129 mm.

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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Failure in Malaya 1941-42, 1969 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/4/1
Scope and Contents

This is a 21 page extract from the original draft of Ivan Simson’s ‘Singapore: too little, too late; some aspects of the Malayan disaster in 1942'. It is the subject of correspondence preserved in RCMS 103/15/4/2.

Dates: 1969 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8329.
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‘False witnesses of Ipoh’, 1960 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/2/5
Scope and Contents

An account of a legal case heard by Clayton during 1904 or 1905 concerning the failure to pay a debt, in which the defendant’s claim to have repaid the money was supported by eleven false witnesses. Clayton exposed their perjury by clever interrogation (2 sheets).

Dates: 1960 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel MC47.
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Farewell to H.P. Bryson at Datu Rembaus, Negri Sembilan 1950, 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/30
Scope and Contents 153 x 108 mm. Showing guests seated round a luncheon table in the garden of Datu Rembaus house. Figures identified in the group are: A.W.D. JAMES, no information; Mrs JAMES; Mrs HARRISON, no information; Dato' KLANA PETRA, ruling chief at Sungei Ujong; Mohamed SALLEH bin Haji Sulaiman (1904-), M.C.S. 1920-1957; A.J. GABBUTT, no information; L.I. LEWIS, Senior Inspector, Kampong Home Guard; Wife of Mohamed SALLEH; Hugh Patterson BRYSON; Wife of Data KLANA; Tuanku MOHAMED, no...
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).
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Farewell to H.P. Bryson at President of the Negri Sembilan Football Association, Seremban, 1935, 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 5/18
Scope and Contents 385 x 231 mm. A group photograph showing Europeans and Malays posed in front of the club house at Seremban. Identified figures in the group are: Francis John (Porky) HUETT (1886-); Acting Superintendent of Customs, Port Swettenham 1921; Deputy Commissioner, Trade and Customs Department, Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan 1933; Sheikh AHMAD; no information; Frederick Alexander Somerville CALDWELL (1911-); F.M.S. (Federated Malay States) Police Probationer 1930; Assistant Commissioner of Police...
Dates: 1935
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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Farewell to J.D. Gimlette, Kelantan, circa 1916, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/19
Scope and Contents

264 x 233 mm (mounted on card). A group photograph of European officials, medical staff and orderlies gathered to say farewell to J.D. Gimlette. Other identified figures in the group are Mr and Mrs William Langham-Carter. The precise date of Gimlettes departure has not been determined, but this photograph must have been taken prior to August 1915, when Langham-Carter departed on furlough. Dr L.H. Taylor who took over from Gimlette, is seated at the left of the group.

Dates: 1915
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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Farewell to Major W.R. Sanguinetti, Kedah Club, Alor Star, Kedah, [?] 1924, 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/29
Scope and Contents 290 x 236 mm. A group photograph of William Roger SANGUINETTI (1871-), with friends and colleagues posed in front of the Kedah Club. Sanguinetti served in the Public Works Department FMS from 1900; from 1921-circa 1926 he was State Engineer, Kedah and this latter date, taken in conjunction with the postings of some of the other figures in the group, is the most likely time for this photograph to have been taken. Other figures identified in the print are: George Edward CLAYTON (1896-circa...
Dates: 1924
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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Farewell to Mr and Mrs Langham-Carter, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 2/79
Scope and Contents

429 x 305 mm (mounted on card). A portrait of a large group of people posed in front of the Malacca Club. William Langham-Carter and his wife sit in the centre of the group; no other figures identified. Langham-Carter retired from his post as Resident Councillor, Malacca in 1925.

Dates: 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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Farm colonies in Malaya during the Japanese occupation, 1965-01 - 1965-02

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

This is a copy of an article which appeared in 'The Malayan Philatelist', vol. 6, no. 5, 1964, 51-54. It is accompanied by correspondence regarding the decision not to republish it in 'Malaya' (12 sheets).

Dates: 1965-01 - 1965-02
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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[Farm scene, 1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/40
Scope and Contents

202 x 152 mm. View looking towards a long atap roofed barn (? animal pens) with a large pool in the foreground.

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).