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*''The Burney Papers''. Cover the period 1825 to 1849. See [[Thailand]].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8WVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc.''] by George Windsor Earl 1837 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-108108/page/n1 "On the Ipoh or Upas Poison Used by the Jacoons and Other Aboriginal Tribes of the Malay Peninsula"] by Lieut. T J Newbold, page 427 ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 127''. 1837 Archive.org. The poison was administered by a blow-pipe.
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia: embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China with notices of numerous missionary stations and a full account of the Burman Empire'' by Howard Malcom
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume I],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 Volume II] 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinsouthea00malc_0 Tenth American edition [with deletions<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1855] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/elephantseladan00hubbgoog ''Elephant & Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States''] By Theodore R Hubback 1905 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/ThreemonthsPaha00Hubb ''Three Months in Pahang in Search of Big Game : A Reminiscence of Malaya''] by Theodore R Hubback 1912 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/malaytinfieldsmi00stokrich ''Malay Tin-fields; mining position broadly reviewed''] by Ralph S. G Stokes1906 Stokes 1906 Archive.org Reprinted from the ''Straits Times''
*[https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_42706_guttaperchaofthemalaypeninsula1907 "Gutta-Percha Trees of the Malay Peninsula"] by J S Gamble, ''Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Bulletin of Miscellaneoue Information'' No 4 1907. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/inmalayforests00maxwrich ''In Malay Forests''] by George Maxwell 1907 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/malayforestsin00maxwrich 2nd edition 1911] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023151933 ''British North Borneo : an Account of its History, Resources, and Native Tribes''] by Owen Rutter 1922 Archive.org
:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures''] by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition 1915. Archive.org.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
*''The War in Malaya'' by Lt-Gen A E Percival 1949. Available as a pdf download from [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu Library], refer above. Located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35260 ''Malaya and its History''] by Sir Richard Winstedt, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and Reader in Malay, University of London. 2nd edition, revised 1951, first published 1947. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofma0000chee/page/n5 ''Bibliography of Malaya, being a classified list of books wholly or partly in English relating to the Federation of Malaya and Singapore''] by H R Cheeseman 1959. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a WW2 Bibliography.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalayaa00kenn ''A History of Malaya, A.D. 1400-1959''] by J Kennedy 1962. Archive.org Lending Library. Before you can borrow this book, you must register. Only one person at a time is able to borrow the book, so you perhaps may need to wait until the book is returned.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishintervent0000park/page/n7 ''British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877''] by C. Northcote Parkinson 1964. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinmalayaf0000treg/page/n5 ''The British in Malaya : the first forty years, 1786-1826''] by K G Tregonning 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernm0000treg/page/n5 ''A History of Modern Malaya''] by K G Tregonning 1967. Archive.org Lending Library.
* ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam'' by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975. Contains one chapter on Malaya from [https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick/page/100 page 101]. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishinmalaya10000butc/page/n5 ''The British in Malaya, 1880-1941 : the social history of a European community in colonial South-East Asia''] by John G Butcher 1979. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromsouthch00alle ''Tales from the South China Seas : images of the British in South-East Asia in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1984. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/savagewarsofpeac00char/page/n5 ''The Savage Wars of Peace : Soldier's Voices, 1945-1989''] by Charles Allen 1990. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], Hong Kong, Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
