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*[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.
*[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 1914. Archive.org. 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://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
*Limited text from [httphttps://myrepositoriarchive.org/details/dli.ernet.527344/page/n1/mode/2up ''Men of Malaya''] by Clive Dalton , (elsewhere stated to be the pseudonym of Frederick S Clark).pnm1942.govChapters titled Francis Light, Thomas Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, Andrew Clarke, Hugh Low, Frank Athelante Sweetenham. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.my*[https:/xmlui/handlearchive.org/123456789details/4303 dli.ernet.524315 ''Malayan Landscape''] by Katharine Sim with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946. Includes the Introduction and Contents. From elsewhere, the The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942. Not included in this extract is a The final chapter regarding is about the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Repositori mirror from Digital, National Library of Malaysia. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255993 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University accessIndia.
*[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]].
