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Malaysia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

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Malaysia Day Rally at Central Padang, Kuching, Sarawak, 1968, 1968

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/131
Scope and Contents

154 x 104 mm. View looking down on the parade.

Dates: 1968
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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MALAYSIA Magazine - Padi fields [1950s], 1950 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/37
Scope and Contents

243 x 188 mm. General view looking across padi fields, with a figure standing in the foreground to indicate the height of the rice.

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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Malaysia : the Museum Negara, 1965

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/5
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).
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Malaysian dagger, 1995

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.2.04
Scope and Contents

Caption accompanying dagger reads, ‘Keris Semenanjung: Malaysian dagger and highly decorated sheath (20.5cm long) modern replica in pewter, produced by Royal Selangor, A Warrior’s Treasure in presentation box with compliments from the Chief Secretary to the Government and Publications in 1995, on the occasion of the visit of the Chief Secretary to Cambridge University Library'.

Dates: 1995
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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Malaysian handicrafts [1960s], 1960 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/83
Scope and Contents

204 x 153 mm. Studio photograph of a display of Malaysian products, including decorative dish covers, pewterware, silverware, silk brocade and batik cloth.

Dates: 1960 - 1969
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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Malaysian Independence celebrations, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/1
Scope and Contents

Photograph by the Straits Times.

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).
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Malaysian Parliament in session, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031A/3
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).
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Mantanani, 1909-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 18/4291
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. About $1500 ($ = 2s/4d) worth of birdsnests (edible) are collected and exported annually from this island : it is about 3 hours sail from Usukan Bay.

Dates: 1909-01
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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Map of Malay Peninsula., 1842

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/4/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...
Dates: 1842
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).
 Fonds

Map of Perak: part of northern districts, scale two miles to an inch

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 379
Scope and Contents

This is a map of the rubber estates in the Krian district measuring 900 x 620 mm. The area shaded in blue pencil traces the Bukit Merah dam, which provided water for all the rice fields in Krian and the estates in the Parit Buntar/Bagan Serai region. The map is undated, but Laurence Connolly, who donated it, and was posted to the Gula Estate in 1949, states that it predates the Second World War. The Bukit Merah dam was constructed in 1906.

Dates: 1906 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: This is stored in the RCS plan chest.
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Margaret Jean Stewart aged 8½ months, 1925-07-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031D/3
Scope and Contents

135 x 88 mm. Photograph of W.G. Stewart's daughter.

Dates: 1925-07-09
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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Market, Kuala Lumpur, 1883, 1883

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/10
Scope and Contents 265 x 208 mm (mounted on card). Showing the Kuala Lumpur market buildings, an open sided building with a tiled roof supported by brick stanchions and situated near the east bank of the Klang River south of Market Street. The market and its site were originally under the control of the Capitan China Yap Ah Loy. Gullick (1955, p. 42) describes Swettenhams views on the market: On its reversion to the State, certain improvements were made to the building and shortly afterwards a more...
Dates: 1883
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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Market scene, [?] P. Datoh, 1914

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

130 x 79 mm. Showing a riverside market scene, with men and women gathered round the canoes moored on the bank.

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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Market scene, [?] Pasir Datoh, 1914

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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
 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.
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Memoranda, 1945-11 - 1946-03

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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.
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Memorandum: constructive suggestions re suppressing prostitution, 1940-11-05

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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.