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*[http://www.dutchburgherunion.org/ Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon] - Website contains much information including journals containing various family history [http://www.dutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2040%20No%202%20-%201950%281%29.pdf Example]
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] also includes many online publications, refer below, including ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1930 (broken range).
*[https://specialcollections.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14604 Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka] Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. Includes images.
*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers.
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030223/plus/10.html "Rubber, rain and rat snakes"] by Michael Speer c 2003 sundaytimes.lk The author was born in Ceylon in 1938 and after the war, from 1946, his father managed rubber plantations, as a PD (periadurai or "big master") until the family left in 1959.
*[http://www.aisls.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ceylon-photograph-guide-2014-edition.pdf "A Guide to Locating Photographs of Colonial Ceylon"] Compiled by Benita Stambler, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, November 2014. aisls.org
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130818/education/trinity-kandy-has-been-looking-to-the-end-since-its-beginning-57997.html "Trinity Kandy has been ‘Looking to the End’ since its beginning"] by Sujitha Miranda August 18, 2013 sundaytimes.lk. Includes history of the school. [http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=101841 "The Trinity College Kandy Archives"] by Nanda P Wanasundera April 19, 2014. island.lk
===Historical photographs and images online===*''A series of fifteen Views of Ceylon illustrative of Sir J.E. Tennent's work, from sketches made on the spot by Capt C. O'Brien, late Assistant Surveyor General, Ceylon'', London 1864. Lithographs by Jonathan Needham . Available online from the British Library, but separately, not as collection. Examples are [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001584u00000000.html Town and lake of Kandy] plate 1; [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001593u00000000.html Peacock Hill, Coffee Estate - Gampola in the distance] plate 10; [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001595u00000000.html Nuera Ellia] plate 12. Use Jonathan Needham as the search term in the Search at the top of the web pages for these images to locate the remaining images.
*University of Cambridge Digital Library contains the [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rcs Royal Commonwealth Society Collection] which contains many images/collections of Ceylon including
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-A/1 Faviell Collection of Ceylon Railway views, 1867] relating to the construction and opening of the Colombo-Kandy line.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-B/1 Views of Ceylon] circa 1860-circa 1899. Classmark: Y303B “This is an important collection whose subjects include the Colombo-Kandy railway construction; the tea industry; views of Colombo;” etc. See Contents for details
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-P/1 Ceylon 1886] Classmark: Y303P
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-F/1 Plumbago in Ceylon] c 1886. Plumbago or graphite was an important mineral export from Ceylon.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-QM-00002/1 The Royal visit to Ceylon, April 1901] Classmark: QM 2
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-FISHER-00001/4 Fisher Volume I : Outward journey and Ceylon October-December 1907] Classmark: Fisher 1
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/instructionsfro00maetgoog ''Instructions from the Governor-General and Council of India to the Governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665''] Translated by Sophia Pieters. [The Government of Netherlands India]. 1908 Archive.org
