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Singapore (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 494 Collections and/or Records:

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Karikal chronicle, printed and published at Karikal Mahal, Katong, by H. Miller and G. H. Wade, 1942-02-19 - 1942-03-05

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/29/1
Scope and Contents

Numbers 1-14.

Dates: 1942-02-19 - 1942-03-05
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Keppel Harbour Power Station, 1946 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/35
Scope and Contents From the File:

An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.

Dates: 1946 - 1955
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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Lake, 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/37
Scope and Contents

Showing a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

Dates: 1937
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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Lake and lodoiua, with P. Blunei, 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031M/39
Scope and Contents

Showing a lake surrounded by trees and foliage.

Dates: 1930
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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Lake in the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/57
Scope and Contents

274 x 206 mm. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert & Co.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
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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Last days of Singapore, 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/7/1
Scope and Contents

Extracted from the ‘Changi Guardian’, no. 19, 1 Apr. 1942 (3 pages).

Dates: 1942
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this item must be read from Master Microfilm Reel 8234.
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Leadership in the Japanese Prisoner of War Camps during World War II as if affected Junior Officers, 1994

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 370/4
Scope and Contents

23 pages.

Dates: 1994
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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Letter from Sir Shenton Thomas to Sir John Martin, Colonial Office, on the subject of the official history of the war (3 copies), 1954-10-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/3/1/5
Scope and Contents

The file also includes two quotations from the 'Illustrated London News' (5 sheets).

Dates: 1954-10-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-class: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8239.
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Letter to Malcolm Thomson, 1945 - 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/33/29
Scope and Contents

Draft of an undated letter objecting to Thomson's treatment of the fall of Malaya in his book 'Life and Times of Winston Churchill', which according to Churchill, neglected the contribution to its defence made by Malaya's Volunteers and other civil defence forces.

Dates: 1945 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8227C.
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Letters concerning Changi and Sime Road civilian internment camps, 1967-07-01 - 1967-07-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/25
Scope and Contents

Two letters from Hugh Bryson to Harry Miller commenting upon incidents recorded in Miller's manuscript describing internment (2 sheets).

Dates: 1967-07-01 - 1967-07-08
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8237.
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Letters from Hugh Le Fleming to Florence Le Fleming, 1929 - 1941

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371/1
Scope and Contents The collection includes original letters from Le Fleming to his mother Florence, known in the family as 'FM’. Subjects include Le Fleming’s travel to Malaya and within the region for work and leisure; descriptions of his duties and colleagues at the FMSR in Ipoh and Kula Lumpur; friends and social life; painting and design; holidays in Europe; the Malay and Chinese people; Malaya’s landscape, butterflies, botany and wildlife; training with the FMS Volunteer forces; and the deteriorating...
Dates: 1929 - 1941
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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Letters of Captain Maurice A. Cameron, 1889-02-07 - 1892-02-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/4/37
Scope and Contents

These letters are largely a record of Cameron's domestic arrangements and social life, with some mention of his work inspecting or supervising the construction of roads, bridges, buildings, lighthouses, and the harbour and defences of Singapore. They also briefly describe his appointment as president of a commission set up in 1890-91 to advise upon the supply of labour. The letters from 1891 narrate a visit to China and Japan (circa 250 sheets).

Dates: 1889-02-07 - 1892-02-11
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8229C.
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Letters of Ursula Holttum, 1948-04-17 - 1949-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/3/6
Scope and Contents

Letters containing Ursula Holttum's account of her return to Singapore after leaving it in 1940 soon after the outbreak of the Second World War (28 sheets).

Dates: 1948-04-17 - 1949-09
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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[Lillian aged five, dressed as a fairy, taken by her uncle in Singapore, 1899], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/55
Scope and Contents

105 x 145 mm.

Dates: 1899
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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[Lillian aged five, dressed as a fairy, taken by her uncle in Singapore, 1899], 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/56
Scope and Contents

105 x 145 mm.

Dates: 1899
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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Lion dance, National Day, Singapore, 1969, 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/179
Scope and Contents

292 x 195 mm. Showing dancers costumed as lions in the National Day Parade.

Dates: 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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Lists of names and addresses of the members of the Adelaide and Perth Associations as at 1st January, 1945, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/4
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: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
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Lists of prisoners of war and civilian internees, 1943 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/22/5
Scope and Contents

Lists compiled by the Malayan and Far Eastern Association of Australia, and the Malayan Research Bureau, Australia:

1. Lists 1-4, 27 May, 1943.

2. List 5, Jan. 1944 (3 copies).

3. List A, July 1944 (supplement to List 5).

4. List B, Apr. 1945 (second supplement to List 5).







Dates: 1943 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8236.
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Lower reaches of Singapore River [circa 1967], 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/151
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view looking down river, with barges moored at the Boat Quay in the foreground.

Dates: 1967
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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Machine Shops, 1946 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/27
Scope and Contents From the File:

An album of photographs, most measuring 205 x 55 mm, accompanied by a typed list, which has been reproduced.

Dates: 1946 - 1955
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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'Malacca [Melaka] memories', 1961

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

Personal memoir of Hillier's time in Malacca [Melaka] from 1888 to the First World War, describing the social life and customs of its European, Malay and Chinese inhabitants, education, religion, health, law and order, shipping and economic conditions.

Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8226C.
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Malai Gunyokuryosho [Sime Road] new female internees, 1945-03-25 - 1945-03-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/15/2/1
Scope and Contents

19 sheets.

Dates: 1945-03-25 - 1945-03-30
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8235.
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Malai Gunyokuryosho [Sime Road] new male internees, 1945-03-25 - 1945-04-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/15/2/2
Scope and Contents

15 sheets.

Dates: 1945-03-25 - 1945-04-18
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reel 8235.
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Malay Fishing Village, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/44
Scope and Contents

135 x 85 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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Malayan police and the 1950 Singapore riots, 1950-12-15 - 1951-01-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/2/10/6
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to the response of the Malayan police to racial and religious riots in Singapore. The riots were inspired by a court ruling in the custody battle over Maria Hertogh, which was won by her Dutch birth parents over her Muslim Malay adoptive parents, who had educated her as a Muslim (16 sheets).

Dates: 1950-12-15 - 1951-01-22
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.