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===Historical books online===
*Also see [[Malaysia]]
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/DEPEO72XGPMIGNSWCPLDCB5FDO5TFASF ''Historical Memoir Relative To Prince Of Wales Island, In The Straits Of Malacca: And Its Importance Political And Commercial: Submitted To The Honourable The East-India Company, And The Government and Legislature Of Great Britain''] by Norman Macalister, Captain and late Commander of the Artillery upon Prince of Wales Island 1803. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Also available on [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/f5e4f6fb-33e2-4962-b8bd-90d18731dc56.aspx BookSG] National Library of [[Singapore]].*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000347B8 ''A short account of the settlement, produce, and commerce, of Prince of Wales Island in the Straits of Malacca''] by Sir George Leith, Major 17th Foot, and late Lieutenant Governor. 1805 British Library Digital Collection. [http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:278 SouthEast Asia Visions version] Cornell University Library.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vVbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Extract from Prince of Wales island Gazette [containing a memorial by C. Mackinnon, Head Surgeon, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company''<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1811 Google Books
*[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/d3fcc6e6-ba76-47a2-b7cf-613b34867aa1.aspx ''Annual Register and Directory 1821 Prince of Wales Island'' ] . This publication lists the British government and administrative departments, military personnel, organizationsorganisations, trades, church committees, etc, on Prince of Wales Island. Includes an index. Available to read online or download from BookSG, National Library of [[Singapore]].*[httphttps://sgebooksarchive.nlorg/details/b21949062 ''Official Papers on the Medical Statistics and Topography of Malacca and Prince of Wales' Island and on the prevailing diseases of the Tenasserim Coast''] by T M Ward and J P Grant 1830 Archive.sgorg. [https:/detail/d3fcc6e6-ba76-47a2-b7cf-613b34867aa1wellcomelibrary.aspx download] from the National org/item/b21949062 Wellcome Library of [[Singapore]version]with rotatable pages.
*''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]
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA402 "Chapter III Penang, or Prince of Wales’s Island"] pages 402-405
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=t5leAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ''De Zieke Reiziger: Or, Rambles in Java and the Straits. In 1852''] [The Invalid Traveller] by A Bengal Civilian [stated elsewhere to be Charles Walter Kinloch] 1853 Google Books.
*Penang, [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA718 page 718] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah &Co 1855
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IaBVAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Memorandum on the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca''] by John Crawfurd 1858 Google Books (Missing pages 12-3) Penang, [[Malacca]] and [[Singapore]]
*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/284/mode/2up "Penang"] page 284 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QBxJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca: Their Peoples, Products, Commerce and Government''] by John Cameron. 1865 Google Books
*[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. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035424 British Library Digital Collection with rotatable images]. [http://www.johnthomsonexhibition.org/biography/ Through the Lens of John Thomson : Biography]
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000008934 ''The China Sea Directory Volume I Supplement ... Directions for Malacca Strait'']. Compiled by Staff Commander John Cumins Richards Hydrographic Office, Admiralty 1876. British Library Digital Collection
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023301710#page/n7/mode/2up ''Prisoners their own warders: a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements, established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the year 1797''] by Major J. F. A. McNair, assisted by W. D. Bayliss. 1899 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HbknAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Slavery and the slave trade in British India; with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents''] Published 1841 Google Books
