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Singapore (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 494 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Charles Archibald Vlieland and the fall of Malaya, 1969

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/15/4/3
Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence between Hugh Bryson and C. A. Vlieland discussing the reasons for the defeat in Malaya. The file includes a copy of Vlieland’s article ‘Singapore: the legend and the facts’, ‘Daily telegraph’, 10 Feb. 1967 and his comments on Noel Barber’s ‘Sinister twilight: the fall and rise again of Singapore’ (1968). The file contains a paper by Brigadier Ivan Simson discussing Vlieland’s views. It also preserves correspondence between Bryson, A. H. Dickinson and Charles...
Dates: 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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Chinese Fishing village, 1920 - 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/41
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).
 Sub-Series

Chinese Protectorate, 1940 - 1963

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/1/3
Scope and Contents

Material collected by Adkins while researching the history of the Chinese Protectorate, a government agency established in the Straights Settlements in 1877 to regulate the affairs of the ethnic Chinese population.

Dates: 1940 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8222C.
 File

Chinese secret societies, 1948-11 - 1958-12

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/5/10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between A.H. Dickinson, H. Fairburn, Rene Onraet and Shenton Thomas. The file also includes the text of a paper delivered to the Royal Empire Society, Bournemouth, on 2 Nov. 1948 and the article, Shenton Thomas, ‘Chinese societies in Singapore’ (20 sheets).

Dates: 1948-11 - 1958-12
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this file must be viewed on microfilm reel 8231.
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Chinese Temple, Balastier Road, Singapore, 1920 - 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/31
Scope and Contents

125 x 100 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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Chinese Temple, Balastier Road, Singapore, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/32
Scope and Contents

125 x 100 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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Chinese Temple, Balastier Road, Singapore, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/33
Scope and Contents

125 x 100 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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Chinese Temple, Balastier Road, Singapore, 1920 - 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/34
Scope and Contents

125 x 100 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).
 File

Choruses sung at Changi and Sime Road Civilian Internment Camp concerts, 1942 - 1945

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/16
Scope and Contents

Two choruses composed by Osborne. The first was written and performed in 1942 and the second for the Japanese surrender and the imminent release of the internees in 1945 (two copies).

Dates: 1942 - 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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Christopher Dominic Ahearne, 1965-01

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/9/10
Scope and Contents

Two biographical articles on the colonial administrator C.D. Ahearne (1886-1964), who served a head of the Malaya Labour Department, accompanied by two letters to Hugh Bryson (3 sheets).

Dates: 1965-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
 Fonds

Church Missionary Society photograph collection

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS
Scope and Contents The Church Missionary Society photograph collection consists of photographic prints, glass and film negatives, and lantern slides. The prints in CMS 1-17 were selected from the CMS’s Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper annotated with captions. Many photographs would have been taken to illustrate articles in the society’s periodicals including ‘Church Missionary Gleaner’, ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ and their successors. Little is known of the...
Dates: 1881 - 1973
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).
 Item

Ciceley Rubber Estate, Teluk Anson, Perak, 1920 - 1925

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/12
Scope and Contents

300 x 100 mm. panoramic view. Backing Y30311B/11.

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).
 Sub-sub-class

Circulars, 1945

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/11
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.
 Sub-sub-class

Circulars, 1944 - 1945

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/13
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: 1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
 Sub-sub-class

Circulars/memoranda, 1943-01-16 - 1945-09

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/7
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: 1943-01-16 - 1945-09
Conditions Governing Access: For conservation reasons, this collection must be read on Cambridge Digital Library or Master Microfilm Reels 8237-8.
 Sub-sub-class

Claims for goods insured under the Malayan War Risks Insurance Scheme, 1944

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/12/30/10
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: 1944
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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Closing ceremony of Mass Media Conference, Victoria Theatre, Singapore, March 7, 1969, 1969-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 18/165
Scope and Contents

139 x 90 mm. A view looking over the audience toward the speaker on the platform.

Dates: 1969-03-07
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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Coal handling plant, 1946 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/2
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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Coaling berth (the vessel in the background is the P. & O. Company's steamer "Canton"), 1946 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MM 15/1
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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Cocoanut tree tops, 1920 - 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311B/40
Scope and Contents

140 x 80. Chinese fishing boat in background had caught a small shark in its net just after photo was taken.

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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Collyer Quay, Singapore, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/52
Scope and Contents

274 x 207 mm. View from Johnston's Pier (see BAM 10/39) looking west along the waterfront towards Gilfillan's Wood and coaling jetty. Waterfront buildings unidentified. 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).
 File

Comments by Sir Andrew Caldecott on Sir Shenton Thomas’s ‘Malaya's war effort’, 1947-07 - 1948-09

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

The file includes a letter from Caldecott to Thomas and an annotated copy of the text (37 sheets).

Dates: 1947-07 - 1948-09
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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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, conference Hall, Singapore, 21 Jan. 1971: John Gorton, Ratu Sir Mara and Hastings Banda after session on South Africa, 1971

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/692
Scope and Contents

210 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1971
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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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, conference Hall, Singapore, 21 Jan. 1971: Julius Nyerere and Seewoosagur Ramgoolam after the session on South Africa, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/691
Scope and Contents

210 x 165 mm.

Dates: 1971
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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Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, conference hall, Singapore, Jan. 1971: Arnold Smith and Lee Kuan Yew, 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CC/669
Scope and Contents

255 x 200 mm.

Dates: 1971
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).