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including the former '''British North Borneo''' and '''Sarawak'''.
including the former '''British North Borneo''' and '''Sarawak'''.


'''Also see the Fibiwiki pages [[Straits Settlements]]''' and '''[[Malacca]]''' and '''[[Penang]]''' (Prince of Wales Island).
'''Also see the Fibiwiki pages [[Straits Settlements]]''' and '''[[Singapore]]''' and '''[[Malacca]]''' and '''[[Penang]]''' (Prince of Wales Island).


==Records==
==Records==
*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources. Includes details of a [[findmypast]] database "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms". Note that within this database is a group of records "Sarawak Baptisms, 1844-1925" which are transcriptions provided by UK Genealogy Archives. There is however no further information about the source of these records.
*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources. Includes details of a [[findmypast]] database "British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms". Note that within this database is a group of records "Sarawak Baptisms, 1844-1925" which are transcriptions provided by UK Genealogy Archives. There is however no further information about the source of these records.
*FamilySearch. See the page [[FamilySearch]] for more details about this organisation.
**FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Records Search]. Transcribed index records. Currently (2024 September) showing no records for Malaya/Malaysia or Singapore.
**FamilySearch records  located through the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog catalog] include
*:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/204144 Year book of the Presbyterian Church, Selangor, baptisms, marriages and deaths] 1896-1951 Microfilms 87991 and 87994, DGS 8196455, 8183457.
*:[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/204135  Extracts from St. Andrew's Outlook, quarterly messenger of the Presbyterian Churches in Malaya, Sumatra, Burma and Siam : marriages and deaths, March 1914 - July 1951] Microfilm number 87992.
*:Both the above sets of records are available at [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FamilySearch Affiliate libraries.
*:Also see [[Malacca]] for some Dutch records.
*[http://www.jpn.gov.my/en/ National Registration Department, Ministry of Home Affairs] [Malaysia] is  responsible for birth , marriage and death registration. The page Corporate Information/History advises  “Birth and death records kept by the National Registration Department since nearly 150 years ago continue to be preserved to this day.” The email address appears to be  <nowiki>pro@jpn.gov.my</nowiki>.   
*[http://www.jpn.gov.my/en/ National Registration Department, Ministry of Home Affairs] [Malaysia] is  responsible for birth , marriage and death registration. The page Corporate Information/History advises  “Birth and death records kept by the National Registration Department since nearly 150 years ago continue to be preserved to this day.” The email address appears to be  <nowiki>pro@jpn.gov.my</nowiki>.   
:There has been some registration since 1859<ref>[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Malaysia_Civil_Registration  Malaysia Civil Registration] FamilySearch Wiki.</ref>. Marriage registration has been in place in Malaysia since the late 1800s<ref> Esslemont, Don. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200211114601/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/malaysia.rootsweb.com/thread/35272205/ BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer)] ''Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List'' 18 Mar 2008, now an archived webpage, which quotes a source of information which is no longer available as a webpage.    There is a possibility this information may be contained in the "Resources" chapter of the book ''Empire’s Children: Trace Your Family History Across the World'' by Anton Gill 2007, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013623894 .  This book accompanied the Channel 4 television series ''Empire's Children''.</ref>.  
:There has been some registration since 1859<ref>[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Malaysia_Civil_Registration  Malaysia Civil Registration] FamilySearch Wiki.</ref>. Marriage registration has been in place in Malaysia since the late 1800s<ref> Esslemont, Don. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200211114601/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/malaysia.rootsweb.com/thread/35272205/ BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer)] ''Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List'' 18 Mar 2008, now an archived webpage, which quotes a source of information which is no longer available as a webpage.</ref>.  
:It seems likely that records may be divided according  to the current states  and federal terrorities, so you would  probably need to know geographical location.  
:It seems likely that records may be divided according  to the current states  and federal terrorities, so you would  probably need to know geographical location.  
*Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See [[Singapore#Newspapers|Singapore - Newspapers]] for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
*Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See [[Singapore#Newspapers|Singapore - Newspapers]] for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
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:*''Straits Settlements Civil Service List'' 1883-1884, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1896-1917, 1920-1921
:*''Straits Settlements Civil Service List'' 1883-1884, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1896-1917, 1920-1921
:*''Federated Malay States Civil Service List'' 1904-1905, 1908-1916, 1918-1919  
:*''Federated Malay States Civil Service List'' 1904-1905, 1908-1916, 1918-1919  
:*''The Malayan Civil List'' 1921-1940  
:*''The Malayan Civil List'' 1921-1940. (Example of an entry from the 1925 '' Malayan Civil List''.<ref>Saw, Winson [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/292619-captain-edward-pratt-3rd-9th-devonshire-regiment-and-asc/ Captain Edward Pratt, 3rd & 9th Devonshire Regiment and ASC] ''Great War Forum'' 19 August 2021 first image. Retrieved 25 September 2021.</ref>)
:The British Library also holds some editions, as does SOAS Library, University of London.
:The British Library also holds some editions, as does SOAS Library, University of London.
*There are Colonial Office files at the National Archives Kew relating to British Malaya. There is a finding aid, a published book (in thirteen volumes) ''Index to British Colonial Office files pertaining to British Malaya : 1838-1955'' compiled by Paul H Kratoska 1990, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006673270 (English language edition) (12 v. in 13).
*There are Colonial Office files at the National Archives Kew relating to British Malaya. There is a finding aid, a published book (in thirteen volumes) ''Index to British Colonial Office files pertaining to British Malaya : 1838-1955'' compiled by Paul H Kratoska 1990, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006673270 (English language edition) (12 v. in 13).
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**[https://archive.org/details/historyofspecial1094534724 ''History of Special Operations Forces in Malaysia'']  by Shamsul Afkar bin Abd  Rahman. June 2013 Thesis,  Master of Science in Defence Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Includes chapters on WW2. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofspecial1094534724 ''History of Special Operations Forces in Malaysia'']  by Shamsul Afkar bin Abd  Rahman. June 2013 Thesis,  Master of Science in Defence Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Includes chapters on WW2. Archive.org
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/  Sejarah Melayu: A History of the Malay Peninsula] includes a Digital Library and Gallery, including historical maps (mostly pre 1800)  sabrizain.org
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/  Sejarah Melayu: A History of the Malay Peninsula] includes a Digital Library and Gallery, including historical maps (mostly pre 1800)  sabrizain.org
*[http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/has-somerset-maugham-promoted-malaysia-more-than-shahrukh-khan/ Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan?] by Oscar the Grouch.  The short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo, written during the 1920s and 1930s, were typically concerned with the lives of the British imperial colonist. Includes details of a murder in 1911 in Malaya on which one of the stories is thought to be based. 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130114152847/http://www.maleisie.be/en/literature_william_somerset_maugham.html A list of the short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo] www.maleisie.be, now an archived webpage.  The short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo, written during the 1920s and 1930s, were typically concerned with the lives of the British imperial colonist.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20130114152847/http://www.maleisie.be/en/literature_william_somerset_maugham.html A list of the short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo] www.maleisie.be, now an archived webpage.  
:See Historical books online, below.
:See Historical books online, below.
*[http://moncurdg.com/2012/07/16/obsession-isolation-and-the-colonies/ “Obsession, isolation and the colonies”] July 16, 2012 moncurdg.com. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_federal_territories_of_Malaysia States and federal territories of Malaysia] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_federal_territories_of_Malaysia States and federal territories of Malaysia] Wikipedia
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedah  Kedah] Alternative name Quedah, it was visited by trading ships  in the time of the East India Company. “In the hope that Great Britain would protect what remained of Kedah from Siam, the sultan handed over Penang and then Province Wellesley (Seberang Perai)  to the British at the end of the 18th century. The Siamese nevertheless conquered Kedah in 1811, and it remained under Siamese control until transferred to the British by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909”.
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedah  Kedah] Alternative name Quedah, it was visited by trading ships  in the time of the East India Company. “In the hope that Great Britain would protect what remained of Kedah from Siam, the sultan handed over Penang and then Province Wellesley (Seberang Perai)  to the British at the end of the 18th century. The Siamese nevertheless conquered Kedah in 1811, and it remained under Siamese control until transferred to the British by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909”.
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***[https://anglicansabah.org/about/history-of-the-diocese/ History]
***[https://anglicansabah.org/about/history-of-the-diocese/ History]
*[http://roxborogh.com/REFORMED/malaysia.htm "The Presbyterian Church in Malaysia"] by John Roxborogh, from ''Christianity in Malaysia. A Denominational History'', edited by Robert Hunt, Lee Kam Hing and John Roxborogh, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk, 1992,  pages 75-106.
*[http://roxborogh.com/REFORMED/malaysia.htm "The Presbyterian Church in Malaysia"] by John Roxborogh, from ''Christianity in Malaysia. A Denominational History'', edited by Robert Hunt, Lee Kam Hing and John Roxborogh, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk, 1992,  pages 75-106.
:[https://www.star2.com/culture/2017/10/26/the-architectural-heritage-of-century-old-st-andrews-presbyterian-church-continues-to-inspire/ Rich built heritage of 100-year-old St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church] Kuala Lumpur star2.com. Includes photographs. [http://www.clacklinevalleyolives.com.au/pipeorgan/malaysia/KLStAndrews.html St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Kuala Lumpur]. St Andrew's was historically known as the ‘Planters Church’ or the ‘Scottish Kirk’ as  the planters of Selangor were mostly of Scottish stock. Includes a photograph
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20171228033412/https://www.star2.com/culture/2017/10/26/the-architectural-heritage-of-century-old-st-andrews-presbyterian-church-continues-to-inspire/ "Rich built heritage of 100-year-old St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church"] Kuala Lumpur. October 26, 2017. star2.com, now archived. Includes photographs.  
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028163855/http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/RaimyCheRoss.pdf "A Penang Kaddish: The Jewish Cemetery In Georgetown. A case study of the Jewish Diaspora in Penang (1830s-1970s)"] by Raimy Ché-Ross 2002. ttc.edu.sg, now an archived webpage.  ''The Penang Story''-International Conference 18-21 April 2002. Includes some transcriptions from tombstones.  
:St Andrew's was historically known as the ‘Planters Church’ or the ‘Scottish Kirk’ as  the planters of Selangor were mostly of Scottish stock. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210223063544/http://clacklinevalleyolives.com.au/Pipeorgan/Malaysia/KLStAndrews.html St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Kuala Lumpur]. ''Pipe Organs of Malaysia''</ref>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028163855/http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/RaimyCheRoss.pdf "A Penang Kaddish: The Jewish Cemetery In Georgetown. A case study of the Jewish Diaspora in Penang (1830s-1970s)"] by Raimy Ché-Ross 2002. ttc.edu.sg, now an archived webpage.  ''The Penang Story''-International Conference 18-21 April 2002. Includes some transcriptions from tombstones.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160319024855/http://www.malaysiahistory.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:tobacco-in-sabah&catid=47:economic-history  "Tobacco in Sabah"] by Danny Wong Tze-Ken 2011.  malaysiahistory.net, now an archived website. The industry commenced  1883, and was the main export from Sabah until 1914. However, estates shifted to rubber crops, which became the main crop in the State.  
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41491906 "The Plantation Rubber Industry in Malaya up to 1922"] by J. H. Drabble ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 40, No. 1 (211) (July, 1967), pp. 52-77. jstor.org. Register and read for free.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41491906 "The Plantation Rubber Industry in Malaya up to 1922"] by J. H. Drabble ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 40, No. 1 (211) (July, 1967), pp. 52-77. jstor.org. Register and read for free.
:[http://www.academia.edu/5509005/Planters_Estate_Health_and_Malaria_in_British_Malaya_1900_1940 "Planters, Estate Health & Malaria in British Malaya (1900–1940)"] by Liew Kai Khiun ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'', Volume 83, Part 1, June 2010, No. 298, pp. 91-115  academia.edu
:[http://www.academia.edu/5509005/Planters_Estate_Health_and_Malaria_in_British_Malaya_1900_1940 "Planters, Estate Health & Malaria in British Malaya (1900–1940)"] by Liew Kai Khiun ''Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'', Volume 83, Part 1, June 2010, No. 298, pp. 91-115  academia.edu
:[http://www.malaysiahistory.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:mad-ridley-and-the-rubber-boom "Mad Ridley and the rubber boom"] by Dr Loh Wei Leng and Khor Jin KeonG 2011.  malaysiahistory.net. The history of rubber in Malaya.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20160618143233/http://www.malaysiahistory.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:mad-ridley-and-the-rubber-boom "Mad Ridley and the rubber boom"] by Dr Loh Wei Leng and Khor Jin KeonG 2011.  malaysiahistory.net, now an archived website. The history of rubber in Malaya.
:Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCuJioeAyx4 A Rubber Plantation in Malaya, 1911 / La Cultivation du Caoutchouc en Malaisie, 1911] You Tube video.
*Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17lcwVUl00  Henrietta Estate Album]. Album of photographs of a Rubber Estate in 1920's / 1930's Malaya. You Tube video.
:Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17lcwVUl00  Henrietta Estate Album]. Album of photographs of a Rubber Estate in 1920's / 1930's Malaya. You Tube video.
*[http://www.malaysiahistory.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:tobacco-in-sabah&catid=47:economic-history "Tobacco in Sabah"] by Danny Wong Tze-Ken 2011.  malaysiahistory.net. The industry commenced  1883, and was the main export from Sabah until 1914. However, estates shifted to rubber crops, which became the main crop in the State.
*[http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/Echols/Travel-Literature-on-Southeast-Asia#MalayArchipelago Bibliography of travel accounts: Malay Peninsula] and additional [http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/Echols/Travel-Literature-on-Southeast-Asia#SecondarySources Secondary sources] Cornell University Library.
*[http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/Echols/Travel-Literature-on-Southeast-Asia#MalayArchipelago Bibliography of travel accounts: Malay Peninsula] and additional [http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/Echols/Travel-Literature-on-Southeast-Asia#SecondarySources Secondary sources] Cornell University Library.
*[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1570&context=lhapapers ''Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire''] by  Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir, University of Wollongong  2011. Mainly in respect of India, but also includes Malaysia and [[Singapore]].
*[http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1570&context=lhapapers ''Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire''] by  Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir, University of Wollongong  2011. Mainly in respect of India, but also includes Malaysia and [[Singapore]].
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:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00970/page/n1/mode/1up ''Books about Malaysia''] by National Library of Singapore 1964. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00970/page/n1/mode/1up ''Books about Malaysia''] by National Library of Singapore 1964. Archive.org
*National Library of Malaysia, currently (11 Oct. 2020) appears to have two digital websites, what perhaps may be termed an older, and a newer. It is unclear whether eventually all the content will migrate to the newer website, but currently there is content on the old website which goes not appear on the new.
*National Library of Malaysia, currently (11 Oct. 2020) appears to have two digital websites, what perhaps may be termed an older, and a newer. It is unclear whether eventually all the content will migrate to the newer website, but currently there is content on the old website which goes not appear on the new.
:[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my Repositori Digital] older website. A number of the English language books are in the category [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/111/browse Koleksi Peribadi].  
:[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my Repositori Digital] older website. A number of the English language books are in the category [https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/111/browse Koleksi Peribadi].  
:[https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome MyRepositori] Newer website. Many of the English books appear in Collections: Khazanah Warisan Negara/Malaysiana/Koleksi Khas/  [https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome/content/browse-content/collection/12 Koleksi Nadir] and [https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome/content/browse-content/collection/11 Koleksi Peribadi]. There are also some online English language newspapers in the collection Surat Khabar.
:[https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome MyRepositori] Newer website. Many of the English books appear in Collections: Khazanah Warisan Negara/Malaysiana/Koleksi Khas/  [https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome/content/browse-content/collection/12 Koleksi Nadir] and [https://upnih.pnm.gov.my/myrepo-public/welcome/content/browse-content/collection/11 Koleksi Peribadi]. There are also some online English language newspapers in the collection Surat Khabar. There is a note on the website: Users who are not in the PNM premises '''only get a preview display of 10 pages''' for copyright reasons.
:For both websites, book files are available as pdfs.  It does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue”  appears to be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. [http://www.aseanlibrary.org ASEAN Digital Library] contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.
:For both websites, book files are available as pdfs.  It does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue”  appears to be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. [http://www.aseanlibrary.org ASEAN Digital Library] contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.
:'''Some downloads of books are sample pages only, or even title page only, but this may not be apparent from the catalogue entry. This appears to be a frequent situation for books, although articles appear to be fully available'''.
:''' Downloads of books are generally sample pages only, or even title page only, (see previous comment) but this may not be apparent from the catalogue entry. This appears to be the general situation for books, and may even apply to articles'''.  
:Books available from NLM include (and others are listed later):
:Books available from NLM include (and others are listed later):
:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 ''Notes from the Sarawak Gazette 1909-1915''] by J C  Moulton. Older website. Also available on the [http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12499/17115 newer website]. This appears to be a new entry, not transfer from the older website. Unclear whether these are sample pages, or the whole file.
:*[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 ''Notes from the Sarawak Gazette 1909-1915''] by J C  Moulton. Older website. Also available on the [http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12499/17115 newer website]. This appears to be a new entry, not transfer from the older website. Sample pages only, the newer version has fewer pages.
::Note some editions of the ''Sarawak Gazette'' are online from 1907, see below.  
::Note some editions of the ''Sarawak Gazette'' are online from 1907, see below.  
:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2533 ''Malaya and Singapore Survey Directory of Churches and Missions in the Federation and Colony''] by  V A Chelliah, No date in catalogue but c 1948. Older website.
:*[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2533 ''Malaya and Singapore Survey Directory of Churches and Missions in the Federation and Colony''] by  V A Chelliah, No date in catalogue but c 1948. Older website. Introductory chapter only.
:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/809/browse Articles from ''Malaya in History''] including
:*[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/809/browse Articles from ''Malaya in History''] including
:**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2017 "Kelantan During World War 1"] by W E Pepys. An article from ''Malaya in History''  July 1960.
:**[https://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2058 ''Untapped Historical Source: Rest House Register Books''] by Robin W Winks. First page only of an article from ''Malaya in History'' April 1964. All older website.
:**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2031 ''The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917''] by C R Harrison,  1961. This is an article from ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961.  A Creeper is  variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930],  ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy''  by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"],  ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref>  or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref>
:**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2058 ''Untapped Historical Source: Rest House Register Books''] by Robin W Winks. Article from ''Malaya in History'' April 1964. All older website.
: Note this website in the past was often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
: Note this website in the past was often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sejarah Melayu Library] (abrizain.org) has an extensive collection of English language historical books to download as pdfs, with some to also read as text. Click on the titles for further details of the author and year published. If you prefer to read original images, look at the text version (if available), as for some books, it may be apparent they are available on websites such as Archive.org or Google Books.  Books available include
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sejarah Melayu Library] (abrizain.org) has an extensive collection of English language historical books to download as pdfs, with some to also read as text. Click on the titles for further details of the author and year published. If you prefer to read original images, look at the text version (if available), as for some books, it may be apparent they are available on websites such as Archive.org or Google Books.  Books available include
**An extensive collection of ''Journals of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (SBRAS) which became the '' Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (MBRAS). Click on individual journal issues, and the contents will be shown. These do not seem to be complete issues, but selected articles.
**An extensive collection of ''Journals of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (SBRAS) which became the '' Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (MBRAS). Click on individual journal issues, and the contents will be shown. These do not seem to be complete issues, but selected articles.
*[https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/collection/79/items?sort_by=publication_date&sort=asc&filter= Digitised books on “History, Culture & Heritage“] from National University of Singapore. Note however, some of the books listed are in fact not viewable.
*[https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/collection/79/items?sort_by=publication_date&sort=asc&filter= Digitised books on “History, Culture & Heritage“] from National University of Singapore. Note however, some of the books listed are in fact not viewable.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Singapore%29+AND+title%3A%28%22Blue+Book%22%29&sort=titleSorter  ''Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year…'']  broken range from 1873 to 1919, including  years not specifically mentioned 1907, 1908, 1910. Archive.org.  Very informative publications.
*''Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year…'' . See [[Singapore#Historical books online|Singapore- Historical books online]] for a range 1870-1938 from various sources. Very informative publications.
:For 1873, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/n3/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Civil Establishments , commencing with an Index] page 177, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/186/mode/2up Singapore] page 187, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Penang] page 209, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/222/mode/2up Malacca] page 223.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Colonial+Reports+-+Annual%22%29&sort=date Archive.org editions of ''Colonial Reports - Annual'' from 1908 onwards, to 1938] published by the Colonial Office. Includes Straits Settlements, Malay States and Unfederated Malay States.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zMxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1912], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cp5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JkLM6an5C7QC&pg=PP7 1919], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X6BDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1922], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cHJDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1924], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHNDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1925], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=23NDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 1926], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=15dDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1929],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZVDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1930], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fp1DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1931], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MpZDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP25 1932], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rltEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1936], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFxEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1937],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q11EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1938] Google Books.
:[https://seadelt.net/Singapore/Documents/ ''Colonial Reports - Annual. Straits Settlements''] for 1931-1932, 1934-1938 are available to download from seadelt.net "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term".
:National Archives of Singapore has  many editions catalogued as ''Straits Settlements Blue Books''. In  the [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/advanced-search Advanced Search] for the title use search term  Blue Books. All editions 1870-1938 appear to be available to read online (but download does '''not''' appear possible) and  additionally there is  [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/record-details/38a7dde8-f14a-11e3-a330-0050568939ad ''Colony of Singapore Blue Book 1946'']. Unfortunately the book reader is not easy to use. To increase size of font use your mouse wheel , and then an adjustment bar appears. To navigate to a particular page, use the thumbnails. The catalogue includes editions from 1867, but editions prior to 1870 do not appear to have been digitised. There is a Search option within each text, and the Search link previously mentioned also seems able to be used to search the texts of the entire collection using keywords.
:Reports from 1947 by Colonial Office (Great Britain)
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' are available on "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term", however  all years available appear to be  also available on other sites. Example [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=332 1932] Pdf. (Also 1888, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive.org, and 1922 available Google Books).
:*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Colonial+Office%29+AND+title%3A%28Annual+report+on+Brunei%29&sort=date ''Annual report on Brunei''] 1947 to 1952.   Archive.org
:Other editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4468 CO 277] 1867-1939, part of "Records of Local Bodies and Other Colonial Miscellanea" commencing with CO 277/1 for 1867. (Also CO 939/1 for 1946, for Singapore).
:*''Annual report on … the Malayan Union'' 1946-1947, ''Malaya'' 1948, ''Federation of Malaya'' from 1950. [https://archive.org/details/colonial-report-malaya-1946/page/n9/mode/2up  1946], [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Annual+report+on+the+Malayan+Union%29&sort=date  1947-1950], [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Annual+Report+on+the+Federation+of+Malaya%29&sort=date 1951 to 1956]. Archive.org
*''The Colonial Office List for ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
:*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Colonial+Office%29+AND+title%3A%28Annual+report+on+North+Borneo%29&sort=date ''Annual report on North Borneo''] 1947 to 1952.  Archive.org
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT]  with rotatable pages;  [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoog/page/n14 1881]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 1889]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003/page/23 1903]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 1904]; HathiTrust Digital Library  editions to 1925  viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009992447 B]
:*[https://archive.org/details/annual-report-sarawak-1947/page/n7/mode/2up  ''Annual report on Sarawak''] 1947 to 1952. Archive.org.
: In addition, ''Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
:* This series of publications also includes  ''Singapore'', see [[Singapore]].
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchableThe same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
*''The Colonial Office List for ...''. Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] for a broken range 1862-1920s.
:''Colonial Office List''  (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''  by T.M. Winsley 1938.  A [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/b037892f-77e2-4d3a-81dc-5c7b785dd5f1.aspx Limited preview] of this book, which however currently (2021/04/12) is quite extensive, including copies of photographs, is available online. eresources.nlb.gov.sg.  Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-singapore-volunteers-corps-1854-1937-being-also-an-historical-outline-of-volunteering-in-malaya.html ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''] Naval & Military Press</ref>  which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, owned by Ancestry, as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ80xl_tk4DCfanlUH4 ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps''].  
*''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''  by T.M. Winsley 1938.  A [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/b037892f-77e2-4d3a-81dc-5c7b785dd5f1.aspx Limited preview] of this book, which however currently (2021/04/12) is quite extensive, including copies of photographs, is available online. eresources.nlb.gov.sg.  Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-singapore-volunteers-corps-1854-1937-being-also-an-historical-outline-of-volunteering-in-malaya.html ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''] Naval & Military Press</ref>  which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, owned by Ancestry, as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ80xl_tk4DCfanlUH4 ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps''].  
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
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*[https://archive.org/details/MalayanPeninsul00Begb/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Malayan Peninsula, embracing its history, manners and customs of the inhabitants, politics, natural history &c. from its earliest records''] by Capt P J Begbie, Madras Artillery 1834.  [https://archive.org/details/MalayanPeninsul00BegbA/mode/2up Maps and images from the book]. Both Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0MwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books edition].
*[https://archive.org/details/MalayanPeninsul00Begb/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Malayan Peninsula, embracing its history, manners and customs of the inhabitants, politics, natural history &c. from its earliest records''] by Capt P J Begbie, Madras Artillery 1834.  [https://archive.org/details/MalayanPeninsul00BegbA/mode/2up Maps and images from the book]. Both Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0MwNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books edition].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8WVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc.''] by George Windsor Earl 1837  Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8WVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc.''] by George Windsor Earl 1837  Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish00martrich ''History of the British possessions in the Indian & Atlantic Oceans; comprising Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Sincapore, the Falkland Islands, St. Helena, Ascension, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Cape Coast Castle, &c., &c.''] by R Montgomery Martin  1837. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-108108/page/n1 "On the Ipoh or Upas Poison Used by the Jacoons and Other Aboriginal Tribes of the Malay Peninsula"] by Lieut. T J Newbold, page 427 ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 127''. 1837 Archive.org. The poison was administered by a blow-pipe.  
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-108108/page/n1 "On the Ipoh or Upas Poison Used by the Jacoons and Other Aboriginal Tribes of the Malay Peninsula"] by Lieut. T J Newbold, page 427 ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 127''. 1837 Archive.org. The poison was administered by a blow-pipe.  
*[https://archive.org/details/quedahorstraylea00osbo/page/n5/mode/2up ''Quedah; or, Stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters''] by Captain Sherard  Osborn RN. 1857.  Events in 1838. [https://archive.org/details/myjournalinmalay00osborich/page/n7/mode/2up ''My journal in Malayan waters: or, The blockade of Quedah''] by Captain Sherard  Osborn 2nd edition 1860. Both Archive.org. Reprinted in 1987 as ''The blockade of Kedah in 1838 : a midshipmanʾs exploits in Malayan waters''. "A narrative of the British blockade of the coast of Quedah to assist the Siamese to reconquer the province of Quedah which had been reclaimed by the Malay chieftains".
*[https://archive.org/details/quedahorstraylea00osbo/page/n5/mode/2up ''Quedah; or, Stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters''] by Captain Sherard  Osborn RN. 1857.  Events in 1838. [https://archive.org/details/myjournalinmalay00osborich/page/n7/mode/2up ''My journal in Malayan waters: or, The blockade of Quedah''] by Captain Sherard  Osborn 2nd edition 1860. Both Archive.org. Reprinted in 1987 as ''The blockade of Kedah in 1838 : a midshipmanʾs exploits in Malayan waters''. "A narrative of the British blockade of the coast of Quedah to assist the Siamese to reconquer the province of Quedah which had been reclaimed by the Malay chieftains".
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia: embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China with notices of numerous missionary stations and a full account of the Burman Empire'' by Howard Malcom
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia: embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China with notices of numerous missionary stations and a full account of the Burman Empire'' by Howard Malcom
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume I],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1  Volume II] 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinsouthea00malc_0 Tenth American edition [with deletions<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1855] Archive.org
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume I],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1  Volume II] 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinsouthea00malc_0 Tenth American edition [with deletions<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1855] Archive.org
*''Views in the Eastern Archipelago: Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, &c. &c. &c. from Drawings Made on the Spot by Captn Drinkwater Bethune, R. N. C. B. Commander L. G. Heath, R. N. And Others'' by J A  St. John 1847. [http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:140/ Text and images] seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu, but note the perspective looks odd when reading online. Perhaps a download may be preferable. [https://historyarchive.org/works/books/views-in-the-eastern-archipelago-1847 Images only] historyarchive.org. [https://www.scribd.com/document/21141187/Views-in-the-Eastern-Archipelago Transcription with images] scribd.com.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China,  1855 Archive.org.  The book appears to be translations  of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China,  1855 Archive.org.  The book appears to be translations  of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromsaraw00mcdoiala/page/n5 ''Letters from Sarawak : addressed to a child. Embracing the manners, customs and religion of the inhabitants of Borneo…''] by Mrs McDougall. Fourth Thousand. 1854 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromsaraw00mcdoiala/page/n5 ''Letters from Sarawak : addressed to a child. Embracing the manners, customs and religion of the inhabitants of Borneo…''] by Mrs McDougall. Fourth Thousand. 1854 Archive.org
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*''Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1878-1922.  Multiple volumes: [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Straits%20Asiatic%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Archive.org]. Restricted access Hathi Trust Digital Library may be available to viewers in North America and some other countries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100160169 A],  [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000525995 B] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007523175 C], including index volumes.
*''Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1878-1922.  Multiple volumes: [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Straits%20Asiatic%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Archive.org]. Restricted access Hathi Trust Digital Library may be available to viewers in North America and some other countries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100160169 A],  [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000525995 B] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007523175 C], including index volumes.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70623 ''Index To All The Journals Nos.1-86 Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society Vol.5 Pt.4 1927]'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70623 ''Index To All The Journals Nos.1-86 Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society Vol.5 Pt.4 1927]'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Journal%20Malayan%20Branch%29 ''Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''] Editions from Volume I 1923 to Vol. XXII 1949, including
*''Miscellaneous Papers relating to Indo-China: Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1886
:[https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto01rost/page/n21/mode/2up Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto01rost/page/n29/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto02rost/page/n23/mode/2up Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto02rost/page/n25/mode/2up Contents]. Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org
:''Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : Second Series. Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1887
:[https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/page/n25/mode/2up Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/page/n31/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap02rost/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap02rost/page/n7/mode/2up Contents] Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Journal%20Malayan%20Branch%29 ''Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''] Archive.org.  Editions from Volume I 1923 to Vol. XXII 1949, including
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25077/page/n15/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya''] by R.O. Winstedt. Published as ''Part I, Volume XIII'' March 1935.  
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25077/page/n15/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya''] by R.O. Winstedt. Published as ''Part I, Volume XIII'' March 1935.  
*Navigation
*Navigation
**[https://archive.org/details/b22011614/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British mariner's directory and guide to the trade and navigation of the Indian and China seas. Containing instructions for navigating from Europe to India and China, and from port to port in those regions, and parts adjacent: With an account of the trade, mercantile habits, manners, and customs of the natives''] by H M Elmore, late Commander of the Varuna Extra East Indiaman 1802 Archive.org.
**''The China Sea Directory''  by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
**''The China Sea Directory''  by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
***''The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore'' by J. W. Reed , R N  and J. W. King, R N. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nP4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1867] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164960 3rd edition 1886] Archive.org.
***''The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore'' by J. W. Reed , R N  and J. W. King, R N. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nP4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1867] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164960 3rd edition 1886] Archive.org.
***[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034776 ''The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong''] by J. W. Reed , R N  and J. W. King, R N.  1868. British Library Digital Collection.  
***[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034776 ''The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong''] by J. W. Reed , R N  and J. W. King, R N.  1868. British Library Digital Collection.  
**[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/684 ''Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra''] 1946 Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia, older website.
**[https://pbc.gda.pl/publication/37462 ''Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising Malacca Strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra''] by the Hydrographic Department , Admiralty 2nd edition 1934 (first edition 1924. Earlier editions were ''China Sea Pilot''). Pomeranian Digital Library, Gdansk University of Technology.  
*[https://archive.org/details/straitsofmalacca00thom_0 ''Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or Ten Years Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad'']  by J Thomson 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/straitsofmalacca00thom_0 ''Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or Ten Years Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad'']  by J Thomson 1875 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
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:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023134236 ''Malay Sketches''] by Sir Frank Althelstane Swettenham 5th edition 1921. First published 1895 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023134236 ''Malay Sketches''] by Sir Frank Althelstane Swettenham 5th edition 1921. First published 1895 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmalayaacc00swet ''British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya''] by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a [https://archive.org/stream/britishmalayaacc00swet#page/n472/mode/1up 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula]
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmalayaacc00swet ''British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya''] by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a [https://archive.org/stream/britishmalayaacc00swet#page/n472/mode/1up 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula]
*''The Selangor Journal: Jottings Past and Present''
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D3dWtARaSVYC&pg=PA21 ''Volume 1'', 1893], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YD5KT9qWC0YC&pg=PP7 ''Volume 2'', 1894], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=W92uKLfHbNkC&pg=PP3 ''Volume 3'', 1895], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EXuT5nne3w0C&pg=PP7 ''Volume 4'', 1896], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gbr4BMkTxbQC&pg=PR1 ''Volume 5'', 1897] Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/selangor-journal-1893v1/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 1'', 1893], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal00unkngoog/page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume 2'', 1894], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal03unkngoog/page/n4/mode/2up ''Volume 3'', 1895], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal01unkngoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Volume 4'', 1896], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal02unkngoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 5'', 1897] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptivedic00denngoog ''A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya''] by N B Dennys 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptivedic00denngoog ''A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya''] by N B Dennys 1894 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034CB6 ''A Trip across the Malay Peninsula with H.E. the Governor [Sir C. B. H. Mitchell<nowiki>]</nowiki> ... Reprinted from the "Singapore Free Press"''] by Major H E McCallum (Henry Edward) 1894. British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034CB6 ''A Trip across the Malay Peninsula with H.E. the Governor [Sir C. B. H. Mitchell<nowiki>]</nowiki> ... Reprinted from the "Singapore Free Press"''] by Major H E McCallum (Henry Edward) 1894. British Library Digital Collection.
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*[https://archive.org/details/kelantanstateofm00grah ''Kelantan a State of the Malay Peninsula; a handbook of information''] by  Walter Armstrong Graham 1908 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/kelantanstateofm00grah#page/n274/mode/1up Map of Kelantan]
*[https://archive.org/details/kelantanstateofm00grah ''Kelantan a State of the Malay Peninsula; a handbook of information''] by  Walter Armstrong Graham 1908 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/kelantanstateofm00grah#page/n274/mode/1up Map of Kelantan]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833  ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright  1908 Archive.org  [[Ceylon]], Malaya, [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833  ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright  1908 Archive.org  [[Ceylon]], Malaya, [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2024706 ''Rubber-Planter's Notebook''] by Frank Braham 1911. Pdf download KrishiKosh, Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Full title: ''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field''. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org.
*''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field by Frank Braham 1911.''. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023038106 ''The Far East revisited; essays on political, commercial, social, and general conditions in Malaya, China, Korea and Japan''] by  A. Gorton Angier 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023038106 ''The Far East revisited; essays on political, commercial, social, and general conditions in Malaya, China, Korea and Japan''] by  A. Gorton Angier 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org  
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:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo  ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires  signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo  ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires  signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7  ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7  ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org  
*[http://nlirepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/1478 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya'']  by Hermann Norden 1923. Link to a pdf, DSpace, National Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02352 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya'']  by Hermann Norden 1923. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/ National Library of India Collection. [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea015 Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] version which is a better quality scan.
*[https://archive.org/details/tidemarksbeingso00toml ''Tide Marks, Being Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923''] by H. M.  Tomlinson 1924 Archive.org   
*[https://archive.org/details/tidemarksbeingso00toml ''Tide Marks, Being Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923''] by H. M.  Tomlinson 1924 Archive.org   
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures'']  by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition  1915. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures'']  by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition  1915. Archive.org.
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*[https://archive.org/details/diseasesandpests029745mbp ''Diseases And Pests Of The Rubber Tree''] by Arnold Sharples 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diseasesandpests029745mbp ''Diseases And Pests Of The Rubber Tree''] by Arnold Sharples 1936 Archive.org
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/1/browse?rpp=100&order=ASC&sort_by=-1&etal=-1&type=subject&starts_with=R Books on rubber] Scroll down letter R. Pdf downloads, Repositori Digital,  National Library of Malaysia.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/1/browse?rpp=100&order=ASC&sort_by=-1&etal=-1&type=subject&starts_with=R Books on rubber] Scroll down letter R. Pdf downloads, Repositori Digital,  National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org. A limited number of editions are also available on [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=Malayan&filtername=title&filtertype=contains&filterquery=malayan&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc Krishikosh] Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System,  as pdf downloads. Also  [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2047353 Malayan Agriculture 1924 Hand Book]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org.  
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''],  Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''],  Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/last-of-the-creepers/mode/2up "The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917"] by C R Harrison,    an article from pages 19-27 ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961  (Malayan Historical Society). Archive.org. A Creeper is  variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930],  ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy''  by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"],  ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref>  or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref> Includes mention of the medical work carried out by Dr.Malcolm Watson which benefited the rubber plantation industry.
*[https://archive.org/details/plantersspeculat0000jame ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available, but probably sample pages only, [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/details/plantersspeculat0000jame ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available, but probably sample pages only, [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932.  The initial chapters cover his time in Malaya as a young man c 1908-1910 where his uncles were rubber planters. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541  Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and  [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417185309/http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com], now an archived webpage.  
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932.  The initial chapters cover his time in Malaya as a young man c 1908-1910 where his uncles were rubber planters. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541  Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and  [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417185309/http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com], now an archived webpage.  
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*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 ''Singapore Patrol''] by  Alec Dixon,  1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''', sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): ''Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya''. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19351206-1.2.71.aspx  Review] ''The Straits Times'', 6 December 1935 gov.sg [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17223115 Review] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (NSW) 14 Dec 1935. Searchable, but not viewable on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001134916 HathiTrust Digital Library].  
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 ''Singapore Patrol''] by  Alec Dixon,  1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''', sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): ''Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya''. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19351206-1.2.71.aspx  Review] ''The Straits Times'', 6 December 1935 gov.sg [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17223115 Review] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (NSW) 14 Dec 1935. Searchable, but not viewable on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001134916 HathiTrust Digital Library].  
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital,  National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library]. [https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital,  National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library]. [https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176  ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Malay Peninsula, page 176  ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books. For  all editions of this publication to 1940, see [[Indian Army#Historical books online| Indian Army - Historical books online]].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iDRGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA164 "Malaya 1938-1939"] page 164  ''Memories of Malaya'' by June Meyer 2007. Description of a rubber estate in the north of Malaya. Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iDRGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA164 "Malaya 1938-1939"] page 164  ''Memories of Malaya'' by June Meyer 2007. Description of a rubber estate in the north of Malaya. Google Books.
*[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d33bd0c3-28e9-4875-8b27-9cd12f353e49.aspx ''Handbook of the Automobile Association of Malaya, Dec. 1939''] eresources.nlb.gov.sg
*[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d33bd0c3-28e9-4875-8b27-9cd12f353e49.aspx ''Handbook of the Automobile Association of Malaya, Dec. 1939''] eresources.nlb.gov.sg
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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524315 ''Malayan Landscape''] by Katharine Sim  with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946.  The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942.  The final chapter is about the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation  from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524315 ''Malayan Landscape''] by Katharine Sim  with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946.  The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942.  The final chapter is about the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation  from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/NotesOnJapaneseWarfareOnTheMalayanFront/page/n1/mode/2up ''Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front''] Information Bulletin no. 6, 9 January 1942 by [USA] War Department, Military Intelligence Division. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/NotesOnJapaneseWarfareOnTheMalayanFront/page/n1/mode/2up ''Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front''] Information Bulletin no. 6, 9 January 1942 by [USA] War Department, Military Intelligence Division. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library.  Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the [[Western Front]].
*Malayan Civil Service
:Purcell was also the author of ''Malaya : Outline of a Colony'' 1946, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003009266 . Also  available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006530445 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
**[https://archive.org/details/kelantan-ww1-pepys/mode/2up "Kelantan During World War I"] by W E Pepys, an article from ''Malaya in History'' July 1960 (Malayan Historical Society), pages 36-39. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library.  Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the [[Western Front]].
*:Purcell was also the author of ''Malaya: Outline of a Colony'' [1946], available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003009266 . [http://www.ppas.gov.my/dokumen/kol-digital/1/Malayan-Outline-Of-A-Colony.pdf Initial pages of the book to page 15] ppas.gov.my. Also  available to search but not view [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006530445 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm  Sejarah Melayu  [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list  to T.   
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm  Sejarah Melayu  [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list  to T.   
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35260 ''Malaya and its History''] by Sir Richard Winstedt, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and Reader in Malay, University of London. 2nd edition, revised 1951, first published 1947. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35260 ''Malaya and its History''] by Sir Richard Winstedt, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and Reader in Malay, University of London. 2nd edition, revised 1951, first published 1947. Archive.org
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:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalaya0000wins/page/n7 ''A History of Malaya''] by Sir Richard Winstedt. Revised and enlarged 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalaya0000wins/page/n7 ''A History of Malaya''] by Sir Richard Winstedt. Revised and enlarged 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by  C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes a some chapters about Malaya. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)].
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by  C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes a some chapters about Malaya. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)].
*The campaign in Malaya against the Communist terrorists, also known as the Malayan Emergency.
**[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1950-vol94vol95/page/307/mode/2up "Some Account of an Operation in the Malayan Jungle"] by Lieutenant-Colonel K H Clark RAMC page 307 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 94 1950'' Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1951-vol96vol97/page/n381/mode/2up "Experiences in a Field Surgical Team working in Pahang State Malaya January-July 1950"] by Geoffrey J Hadfield and A J Heber page 360 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 96 June 1951'' Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/junglegreen009665mbp/page/n9/mode/2up ''Jungle Green''] by Arthur Campbell  1954, first published 1953. Archive.org.  Campbell served with the [[12th Regiment of Foot|Suffolk Regiment]].
**[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0354142/page/n3/mode/2up ''Army Operations in Malaya, 1947-1960''] prepared for the  [USA] Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defence September 1964. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/malayassecretpol0000comb ''Malaya's secret police, 1945-60 : the role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency''] by Leon Comber 2009 reprint, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
**[https://archive.org/details/malayanscoutssas0000durk ''Malayan Scouts SAS : a memoir of the Malayan Emergency, 1951''] by J C Durkin 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8788/page/n1/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya and her Neighbours, Volume One''] by F J Moorhead 1957. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8788/page/n1/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya and her Neighbours, Volume One''] by F J Moorhead 1957. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenkhersonese0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Golden Khersonese : studies in the historical geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500''] by Paul  Wheatley. 1961. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenkhersonese0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Golden Khersonese : studies in the historical geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500''] by Paul  Wheatley. 1961. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalayaa00kenn ''A History of Malaya, A.D. 1400-1959''] by J Kennedy 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.  
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalayaa00kenn ''A History of Malaya, A.D. 1400-1959''] by J Kennedy 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.  
:[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderns0000treg ''A History of Modern Sabah (North Borneo, 1881-1963)''] by K G Tregonning 1965. A revised second edition of the book first published in 1958 under the title ''Under Chartered Company Rule''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The British North Borneo Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/north-borneo-tregonning/page/n1/mode/2up ''North Borneo''] by K G Tregonning 1960. A volume in the Colonial Office's series ''The Corona Library'', published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderns0000treg ''A History of Modern Sabah (North Borneo, 1881-1963)''] by K G Tregonning 1965. A revised second edition of the book first published in 1958 under the title ''Under Chartered Company Rule''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The British North Borneo Company.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishinmalayaf0000treg/page/n5 ''The British in Malaya : the first forty years, 1786-1826'']  by K G Tregonning 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishinmalayaf0000treg/page/n5 ''The British in Malaya : the first forty years, 1786-1826'']  by K G Tregonning 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernm0000treg/page/n5 ''A History of Modern Malaya''] by  K G Tregonning 1967.  Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernm0000treg/page/n5 ''A History of Modern Malaya''] by  K G Tregonning 1967.  Archive.org Lending Library.
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*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Malaya and Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Malaya and Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sunsetofempirein00tayl/page/n5 ''Sunset of the Empire in Malaya: A New Zealander’s Life in the Colonial Education Service''] by T.K. Taylor 2007. He was appointed by the Colonial Office and worked in Malaya 1946-1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sunsetofempirein00tayl/page/n5 ''Sunset of the Empire in Malaya: A New Zealander’s Life in the Colonial Education Service''] by T.K. Taylor 2007. He was appointed by the Colonial Office and worked in Malaya 1946-1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb3-malaya/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire.  Series B Volume 3. Malaya'', in three parts] edited by A J Stockwell 1995, originally published by HMSO. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org]. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
:[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb8-malaysia/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 8 Malaysia''] edited by A J Stockwell  originally published by The Stationery Office (TSO) 2004. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org]. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1941, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], Hong Kong, Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], Hong Kong, Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership  those outside the Indian Empire, including the Straits Settlements, is available on [[Findmypast]], category  "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].
* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership  those outside the Indian Empire, including the Straits Settlements, is available on [[Findmypast]], category  "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/kellywalshshandb00sing ''Kelly & Walsh's Handbook of the Malay Language for the use of Tourists and Residents''] Sixth edition 1919 Archiv.org
*[https://archive.org/details/kellywalshshandb00sing ''Kelly & Walsh's Handbook of the Malay Language for the use of Tourists and Residents''] Sixth edition 1919 Archiv.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aab3248.0001.001.umich.edu ''An English-Malay Dictionary''] by Rev. W G  Shellabear 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aab3248.0001.001.umich.edu ''An English-Malay Dictionary''] by Rev. W G  Shellabear 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ve-mm/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Vocabulary of Malay Medical Terms''] by P N Gerrard. First edition 1905, reprinted 1933. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b21505019 ''Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness''] by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891. The author lived at the Cape of Good Hope.
*[https://archive.org/details/b21505019 ''Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness''] by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891. The author lived at the Cape of Good Hope.
====Fiction====
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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023257854 ''The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya, 1600-1605''] by A Hale 1909. Archive.org. This book was classified as a novel in a review when issued, but it was stated “In the Malayan part of the book…[there] seems to be first hand knowledge of the legends, custom and intimate life of the Malayans”, and it was “written… with… learning”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160616121345/http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th-july-1909/28/novels ''The Spectator'' Archive: 10 July 1909, page 28], archived page.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023257854 ''The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya, 1600-1605''] by A Hale 1909. Archive.org. This book was classified as a novel in a review when issued, but it was stated “In the Malayan part of the book…[there] seems to be first hand knowledge of the legends, custom and intimate life of the Malayans”, and it was “written… with… learning”<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160616121345/http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th-july-1909/28/novels ''The Spectator'' Archive: 10 July 1909, page 28], archived page.</ref>
*''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be other Malayan stories in  other volumes. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library.  [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s.
*''The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham'' [https://archive.org/details/completeshorts01maug Volume I] Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460655 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553314 Volume III]. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be other Malayan stories in  other volumes. (See External links, above.) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Short+Stories%29+AND+creator%3A%28Somerset+Maugham%29&sort=-date Other ''Short Stories'' editions] mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library.  [https://archive.org/details/fareasterntales00maug ''Far Eastern Tales''] Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s. The stories include [https://archive.org/details/completeshortsto01maug/page/184/mode/2up "The Letter"] page 184 ''The complete short stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Volume 1 East and West'', published 1953 New York. Archive.org Books to Borrow. The plot for this  story is considered to have been based on a murder in 1911 in Kuala Lumpur, details of which are given in newspapers of the period and also in  ''Out East in the Malay Peninsula'', the memoirs of Dr. G.E.D. Lewis, published 1991.<ref>[http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/has-somerset-maugham-promoted-malaysia-more-than-shahrukh-khan/ "Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan?"] by Oscar the Grouch.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunners00fordiala ''The Gun-Runners''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1900 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunners00fordiala ''The Gun-Runners''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1900 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
:[https://archive.org/details/jewelledlizard00fordiala ''The Jewelled Lizard''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1908 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers, with a Sumatra setting.
:[https://archive.org/details/jewelledlizard00fordiala ''The Jewelled Lizard''] by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1908 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers, with a Sumatra setting.
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including the former British North Borneo and Sarawak.

Also see the Fibiwiki pages Straits Settlements and Singapore and Malacca and Penang (Prince of Wales Island).

Records

There has been some registration since 1859[1]. Marriage registration has been in place in Malaysia since the late 1800s[2].
It seems likely that records may be divided according to the current states and federal terrorities, so you would probably need to know geographical location.
  • Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See Singapore - Newspapers for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
  • Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in other publications, such as The Directory & Chronicle for China etc or The London and China Telegraph, or The London and China Express, refer Historical books online below.
  • MyRepositori, website of the National Library of Malaysia, see Historical books online below, includes some historical Malaysian newspapers in English, although titles and dates are unclear, but include The Malay Mail and the Sunday Mail 1940s and 1950s. There is a Search which includes a Full Text Search, but you must select this option.
  • BACSA have published the following books, which are available at the British Library as noted:
    • Ipoh and Taiping: War Graves and Graves of Europeans in the Cemeteries in Ipoh and Taiping, Perak, Malaysia by Justin Corfield, 2000. 108pp, 27 illustrations and plan. UIN: BLL01009531255
    • Kota Bharu (Malaysia): European Graves in the Jalan Hamzah Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 1999. 24pp, 23 illustrations and plan. UIN: BLL01009531507
    • Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): St Mary's Cathedral and the Jalan Birch Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 2000. 24pp, 5 illustrations. UIN: BLL01009531254
    • Christian Cemeteries and Memorials in the State of Malacca by Alan Harfield ; Dutch translations by José Parrett. 2002 revised edition 214 p, previously published 1979 and 1984. 1979 title includes and Rasak New Village. UIN: BLL01007448800 (2002); (UIN: BLL01010549113 1979; UIN: BLL01007448766 1984). The 2002 edition is available online, see Malacca.
    • Christian Cemeteries of Penang & Perak by Alan Harfield 1987. 195 p. UIN: BLL01011842779
    Penang Western Road Cemetery : graves of Europeans in the Protestant Section by Justin Corfield. Variant Title: Penang, Malaysia : graves of Europeans in the Protestant Section of Western Road Cemetery c 1999. 77 p with map. UIN: BLL01009531508
    • Seremban, Malaysia: Graves in St Mark's Churchyard, and the Anglican Section of the Seremban Cemetery by E Beavington and Justin Corfield, 2000. 56pp, 11 illustrations. UIN: BLL01009531270
    • Teluk Anson (Malaysia): European Graves in the Jalan Anderson Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 2000. 20pp, 14 illustrations and plan. UIN: BLL01009531506
For more details about the books currently available, and also those out of print, see BACSA - See also.
BACSA have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
  • Epitaph : the Northam Road Protestant Cemetery, George Town, Penang by Marcus Langdon. [2017] Publication Details: Penang, Malaysia : George Town World Heritage, [2017] “Includes bibliographical references". UIN: BLL01018374502 .
  • Taiping, Malaysia : Commonwealth war graves cemetery. Publication Details: [Stockport] : [Lane], [1995] On cover: This register is a memorium dedicated to those men who were killed in the defence of Malaya or who died as prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War. UIN: BLL01008833921
  • Names and particulars of Australians killed in action in Borneo or who died while prisoners of war, or, who died while P.O.W. on the Sandakan Death March's and who are buried in the Labuan War Cemetery, North Borneo, Malaysia compiled by James McClelland Research 1991. UIN: BLL01007227307
  • British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935) by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01012672115 . History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
  • See Malacca and Dutch for records for researching those with Dutch ancestry.
  • Civil Service Lists are very useful if you are researching a government employee, but some may only contain more senior employees.
Some Colonial Office Lists are available online, refer Historical books online below.
Details of Government of Malaya Lists are set out in Government Lists page 30 Bibliography of Malaya (Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library). The best collection of these Lists available in the UK appears to be at Cambridge University Library which holds, according to its catalogue,
  • Straits Settlements Civil Service List 1883-1884, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1896-1917, 1920-1921
  • Federated Malay States Civil Service List 1904-1905, 1908-1916, 1918-1919
  • The Malayan Civil List 1921-1940. (Example of an entry from the 1925 Malayan Civil List.[3])
The British Library also holds some editions, as does SOAS Library, University of London.
  • There are Colonial Office files at the National Archives Kew relating to British Malaya. There is a finding aid, a published book (in thirteen volumes) Index to British Colonial Office files pertaining to British Malaya : 1838-1955 compiled by Paul H Kratoska 1990, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006673270 (English language edition) (12 v. in 13).

Military Operations

Civil Service

For an account of the varied duties of a Civil Servant from the 1920s, see The Memoirs of a Malayan Official by Victor Purcell, 1965. Available online, refer Historical books online, below.

External links

See Historical books online, below.
  • States and federal territories of Malaysia Wikipedia
    • Kedah Alternative name Quedah, it was visited by trading ships in the time of the East India Company. “In the hope that Great Britain would protect what remained of Kedah from Siam, the sultan handed over Penang and then Province Wellesley (Seberang Perai) to the British at the end of the 18th century. The Siamese nevertheless conquered Kedah in 1811, and it remained under Siamese control until transferred to the British by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909”.
    • Perak was visited by trading ships in the time of the East India Company. There was a British Resident from 1874. The capital is Ipoh.
    • Terengganu Wikipedia. Alternative name Tringaney. Terengganu's location by the South China Sea ensured that it was on trade routes from ancient times , and it was visited by trading ships in the time of the East India Company. The terms of the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 saw power over Terengganu transferred from Siam to Great Britain. A British advisor was appointed to the sultan in 1919, and Terengganu become one of the Unfederated Malay States.
  • St. Mary's Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur, an Anglican Church consecrated 1895. Photograph by DBHKer 2008. Flickr.com. Originally called Church of St Mary the Virgin. History: The Anglican Church of St. Mary the virgin, now an archived webpage.
  • The Anglican [Church of England] Diocese: West Malaysia The Bishop of West Malaysia is also Archbishop of South East Asia, who is located at Kuala Lumpur. anglicancommunion.org
  • "The Presbyterian Church in Malaysia" by John Roxborogh, from Christianity in Malaysia. A Denominational History, edited by Robert Hunt, Lee Kam Hing and John Roxborogh, Petaling Jaya, Pelanduk, 1992, pages 75-106.
"Rich built heritage of 100-year-old St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church" Kuala Lumpur. October 26, 2017. star2.com, now archived. Includes photographs.
St Andrew's was historically known as the ‘Planters Church’ or the ‘Scottish Kirk’ as the planters of Selangor were mostly of Scottish stock. [4]
"Planters, Estate Health & Malaria in British Malaya (1900–1940)" by Liew Kai Khiun Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 83, Part 1, June 2010, No. 298, pp. 91-115 academia.edu
"Mad Ridley and the rubber boom" by Dr Loh Wei Leng and Khor Jin KeonG 2011. malaysiahistory.net, now an archived website. The history of rubber in Malaya.
"Spreading the word: using cookbooks and colonial memoirs to examine the foodways of British Colonials in Asia, 1850-1900" by Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir, University of Wollongong. From The Routledge History of Food 2015 (pp. 131-155)
"Mrs Beeton in Malaya" by Janice Loo. BiblioAsia Volume 9 Issue. 3 October-December 2013. ywca.org.sg

Maps

  • 1929 Motoring Map of Malaya Pages can be rotated if required. National Library of Malaysia.
  • Also see some Maps in Historical books online, below.

Historical books online

Books about Malaysia by National Library of Singapore 1964. Archive.org
  • National Library of Malaysia, currently (11 Oct. 2020) appears to have two digital websites, what perhaps may be termed an older, and a newer. It is unclear whether eventually all the content will migrate to the newer website, but currently there is content on the old website which goes not appear on the new.
Repositori Digital older website. A number of the English language books are in the category Koleksi Peribadi.
MyRepositori Newer website. Many of the English books appear in Collections: Khazanah Warisan Negara/Malaysiana/Koleksi Khas/ Koleksi Nadir and Koleksi Peribadi. There are also some online English language newspapers in the collection Surat Khabar. There is a note on the website: Users who are not in the PNM premises only get a preview display of 10 pages for copyright reasons.
For both websites, book files are available as pdfs. It does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue” appears to be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. ASEAN Digital Library contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.
Downloads of books are generally sample pages only, or even title page only, (see previous comment) but this may not be apparent from the catalogue entry. This appears to be the general situation for books, and may even apply to articles.
Books available from NLM include (and others are listed later):
Note some editions of the Sarawak Gazette are online from 1907, see below.
Note this website in the past was often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
  • [Digital] Sejarah Melayu Library (abrizain.org) has an extensive collection of English language historical books to download as pdfs, with some to also read as text. Click on the titles for further details of the author and year published. If you prefer to read original images, look at the text version (if available), as for some books, it may be apparent they are available on websites such as Archive.org or Google Books. Books available include
    • An extensive collection of Journals of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SBRAS) which became the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS). Click on individual journal issues, and the contents will be shown. These do not seem to be complete issues, but selected articles.
  • Digitised books on “History, Culture & Heritage“ from National University of Singapore. Note however, some of the books listed are in fact not viewable.
  • Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year… . See Singapore- Historical books online for a range 1870-1938 from various sources. Very informative publications.
Archive.org editions of Colonial Reports - Annual from 1908 onwards, to 1938 published by the Colonial Office. Includes Straits Settlements, Malay States and Unfederated Malay States.
Colonial Reports - Annual. Straits Settlements for 1931-1932, 1934-1938 are available to download from seadelt.net "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term".
Reports from 1947 by Colonial Office (Great Britain)
Volume I,Volume II 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. Tenth American edition [with deletions] c 1855 Archive.org
Sketches of our life at Sarawak by Harriette McDougall [1882?] Archive.org. Incorporates (some of/all?) the previous book.
Volume 1, Contents; Volume 2, Contents. Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org
Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : Second Series. Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1887
Volume 1, Contents; Volume 2, Contents Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org
Malay Sketches by Sir Frank Althelstane Swettenham 5th edition 1921. First published 1895 Archive.org
British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula
  • The Selangor Journal: Jottings Past and Present
Volume 1, 1893, Volume 2, 1894, Volume 3, 1895, Volume 4, 1896, Volume 5, 1897 Google Books
Volume 1, 1893, Volume 2, 1894, Volume 3, 1895, Volume 4, 1896, Volume 5, 1897 Archive.org
India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Balata: occurrence, geographical distribution, and cultivation of rubber plants; manner of obtaining and preparing the raw material, modes of working and utilizing them, and statistics of commerce by William T Brannt 1900 Archive.org
"The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East" page 219 The India Rubber World April 1, 1903 Archive.org
"Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States" page 225 The India Rubber World April 1, 1904 Archive.org.
Three Months in Pahang in Search of Big Game : A Reminiscence of Malaya by Theodore R Hubback 1912 Archive.org
Also see above for the 1959 Bibliography by H R Cheeseman.
An illustrated guide to the Federated Malay States edited by Cuthbert Woodville Harrison, Malayan Civil Service. 3rd edition 1920. Archive.org. Missing the Map. 1923 edition Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia, older website. Probably sample pages only.
Malaysia and Indo-China : Information for Visitors to British Malaya, Dutch-Indies (Java, Bali, Sumatra etc.) Siam, French Indo-China. Published by Thos. Cook & Son, Singapore 1926. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia, older website. Probably sample pages only.
Federated Malay States from page 159 c 1900? and British North Borneo, page 378 Further incidents in the life of a mining engineer by E T McCarthy 1920 Archive.org.
The Origins of British Borneo by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
The Medical Book Of Malayan Medicine originally translated circa 1886 in Penang, edited by J D Gimlette and I H Burkill 1930. Published in The Gardens' Bulletin Straits Settlements October 1930 [Singapore: Botanic Gardens] Archive.org.
A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine by John D. Gimlette ; edited and completed by H. W. Thomson ; with a foreword by Malcolm Watson. 1939. MyRepositori, National Library of Malaysia.
R. H. Bruce Lockhart Wikipedia.
Return to Malaya R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910, see previous book.
  • Singapore Patrol by Alec Dixon, 1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. Note, sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya. Review The Straits Times, 6 December 1935 gov.sg Review The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) 14 Dec 1935. Searchable, but not viewable on HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on HathiTrust Digital Library. About the author shakariconnection.com
  • Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information published by League of Nations. "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean" includes Malay Peninsula, page 176 First Year 1924, 2nd Edition HathiTrust Digital Library; "Asia" page 193 1937 edition. Google Books. For all editions of this publication to 1940, see Indian Army - Historical books online.
  • "Malaya 1938-1939" page 164 Memories of Malaya by June Meyer 2007. Description of a rubber estate in the north of Malaya. Google Books.
  • Handbook of the Automobile Association of Malaya, Dec. 1939 eresources.nlb.gov.sg
  • British Rule In Eastern Asia: A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic development in British Malaya and Hong Kong by Lennox A Mills 1941. Issued under the auspices of the Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations International Research Series. File 1 some missing pages noted; File 2 Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
  • Men of Malaya by Clive Dalton , (elsewhere stated to be the pseudonym of Frederick S Clark). 1942. Chapters titled Francis Light, Thomas Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, Andrew Clarke, Hugh Low, Frank Athelante Sweetenham. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Malayan Landscape by Katharine Sim with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946. The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942. The final chapter is about the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front Information Bulletin no. 6, 9 January 1942 by [USA] War Department, Military Intelligence Division. Archive.org
  • Malayan Civil Service
    • "Kelantan During World War I" by W E Pepys, an article from Malaya in History July 1960 (Malayan Historical Society), pages 36-39. Archive.org
    • The Memoirs of a Malayan Official by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the Western Front.
    Purcell was also the author of Malaya: Outline of a Colony [1946], available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003009266 . Initial pages of the book to page 15 ppas.gov.my. Also available to search but not view HathiTrust Digital Library.
  • The War in Malaya by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the Sejarah Melayu [Digital] Library located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
  • Malaya and its History by Sir Richard Winstedt, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and Reader in Malay, University of London. 2nd edition, revised 1951, first published 1947. Archive.org
Also see A History of Malaya by R.O. Winstedt published as Part I, Volume XIII March 1935 of the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, above.
A History of Malaya by Sir Richard Winstedt. Revised and enlarged 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45 by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
  • North Borneo by K G Tregonning 1960. A volume in the Colonial Office's series The Corona Library, published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archive.org
A History of Modern Sabah (North Borneo, 1881-1963) by K G Tregonning 1965. A revised second edition of the book first published in 1958 under the title Under Chartered Company Rule. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The British North Borneo Company.
The British in Malaya : the first forty years, 1786-1826 by K G Tregonning 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.
A History of Modern Malaya by K G Tregonning 1967. Archive.org Lending Library.
The Savage Wars of Peace : Soldier's Voices, 1945-1989 by Charles Allen 1990. Archive.org Lending Library.
British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 8 Malaysia edited by A J Stockwell originally published by The Stationery Office (TSO) 2004. bdeep.org. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Fiction

  • The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya, 1600-1605 by A Hale 1909. Archive.org. This book was classified as a novel in a review when issued, but it was stated “In the Malayan part of the book…[there] seems to be first hand knowledge of the legends, custom and intimate life of the Malayans”, and it was “written… with… learning”[10]
  • The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham Volume I Archive.org Lending Library. Volume II, Volume III. Archive.org. The Volume III Preface indicates some of the stories are set in Malaya "written long before the Second World War"; there may be other Malayan stories in other volumes. (See External links, above.) Other Short Stories editions mainly from the Archive.org Lending Library. Far Eastern Tales Archive.org Lending Library. The short stories appear to have been written mainly in the 1920s-1930s. The stories include "The Letter" page 184 The complete short stories of W. Somerset Maugham, Volume 1 East and West, published 1953 New York. Archive.org Books to Borrow. The plot for this story is considered to have been based on a murder in 1911 in Kuala Lumpur, details of which are given in newspapers of the period and also in Out East in the Malay Peninsula, the memoirs of Dr. G.E.D. Lewis, published 1991.[11]
  • The Gun-Runners by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1900 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.
The Jewelled Lizard by W. Dingwall Fordyce c 1908 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers, with a Sumatra setting.
Dingwall Fordyce also wrote "The Adventures of Babi. A pet mongoose in Sumatra", a chapter in Wide World Magazine, 1911, and Our Secret Society c 1910. However, it is unknown if the setting for the latter is also Malaysia/Indonesia.

References

  1. Malaysia Civil Registration FamilySearch Wiki.
  2. Esslemont, Don. BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer) Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List 18 Mar 2008, now an archived webpage, which quotes a source of information which is no longer available as a webpage.
  3. Saw, Winson Captain Edward Pratt, 3rd & 9th Devonshire Regiment and ASC Great War Forum 19 August 2021 first image. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  4. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Kuala Lumpur. Pipe Organs of Malaysia
  5. History of the Dutch in Malaysia by Dennis De Witt. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015564894
  6. A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya Naval & Military Press
  7. Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930, Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.
  8. Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World", The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber by John Tully 2011. Google Books
  9. "The Planter’s Life" by Christopher Hale, January 2013.
  10. The Spectator Archive: 10 July 1909, page 28, archived page.
  11. "Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan?" by Oscar the Grouch.