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:''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).
: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).
*''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://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 First published 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]; See [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]: In addition, ''Directories online#Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''|Directories online - 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.:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyckbroken range 1862-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 searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres1920s.:''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 (2021/04/04) 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://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.
