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===Historical books online===
*Also see [[Malaysia]]
*[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 19141919, including years not specifically mentioned 1907, 1908, 1910. 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.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://seadeltbooks.netgoogle.com.au/Documentsbooks?id=zMxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1912], [https://books.google.com.au/books?IDid=445 1922Cp5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1917] and , [https://seadeltbooks.google.com.netau/books?id=JkLM6an5C7QC&pg=PP7 1919], [https:/Documents/books.google.com.au/books?IDid=332 1932X6BDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1922] "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term", [https://books.google. Pdfscom. Also 1888au/books?id=cHJDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1924], 1904[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHNDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1925], 1907[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=23NDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 1926], 1908[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=15dDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1929], 1910 which are also available on Archive[https://books.google.orgcom.:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for au/books?id=bZVDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1930], [https://seadeltbooks.google.com.net/Documentsau/books?IDid=fp1DAQAAIAAJ&pg=445 1922PP9 1931] and , [https://seadeltbooks.net/Documentsgoogle.com.au/books?IDid=MpZDAQAAIAAJ&pg=332 PP25 1932] "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term", [https://books.google. Pdfscom. (Also 1888au/books?id=rltEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1936], 1904[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFxEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1937], 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive[https://books.google.com.org)au/books?id=Q11EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1938] Google Books.
: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.
:''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).
*''Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca: Viz. Pinang, Malacca, and Singapore, with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca'' by T J Newbold 1839 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OQ8PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2E0PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
