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including the former '''British North Borneo''' and '''Sarawak'''.
'''Also see the Fibiwiki pages [[Straits Settlements]]''' and '''[[Malacca]]''' and '''[[Penang]]''' (Prince of Wales Island).
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 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). 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]].
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my Repositori Digital] Digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Book files are available as pdf downloads. Contains some books in English, although it does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue” appears to be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. A number of the English language books are in the category [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/111/browse Koleksi Peribadi]. [http://www.aseanlibrary.org ASEAN Digital Library] contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.
:'''Some downloads of books are sample pages only, but this may not be apparent from the catalogue entry. It is not known if this practice applies widely.This appears to be a frequent situation for books'''.
:Books available from NLM include (and others are listed later):
:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 ''Notes from the Sarawak Gazette 1909-1915''] by J C Moulton. Note some editions of the ''Sarawak Gazette'' are online from 1907, see below.
*[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.
:[https://archive.org/details/biostor-248428/mode/2up ''The Medical Book Of Malayan Medicine''] originally translated circa 1886 in Penang, edited by J D Gimlette and I H Burkill 1930. Published in ''The Gardens' Bulletin Straits Settlements'' October 1930 [Singapore: Botanic Gardens] 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], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2917 ''The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines''] by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. "This book is in the main an [enlarged] English edition of the author's work 'Landbouwdiekunde van Oost-Indië' published in 1919." Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Note, sample pages only. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002010015 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.*[https://archive.org/details/fieldbookofjungl0000hose ''The Field-Book of a Jungle-Wallah : being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak''] by Charles Hose. 1985 reprint, first published 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hose Charles Hose] He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884.
*[https://archive.org/details/diseasesandpests029745mbp ''Diseases And Pests Of The Rubber Tree''] by Arnold Sharples 1936 Archive.org
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/1/browse?rpp=100&order=ASC&sort_by=-1&etal=-1&type=subject&starts_with=R Books on rubber] Scroll down letter R. Pdf downloads, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org. A limited number of editions are also available on [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=Malayan&filtername=title&filtertype=contains&filterquery=malayan&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc Krishikosh] Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System, as pdf downloads. Also [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2047353 Malayan Agriculture 1924 Hand Book]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''], Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[httphttps://myrepositoriarchive.pnm.gov.myorg/handledetails/123456789/2441 plantersspeculat0000jame ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968. Pdf downloadArchive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available, but probably sample pages only, [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. The initial chapters cover his time in Malaya as a young man c 1908-1910 where his uncles were rubber planters. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160417185309/http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com], now an archived webpage.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart R. H. Bruce Lockhart] Wikipedia.
:[https://archive.org/details/returntomalaya006324mbp ''Return to Malaya''] R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910, see previous book.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3330 ''Singapore Patrol''] by Alec Dixon, 1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. '''Note''', sample pages only. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): ''Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya''. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19351206-1.2.71.aspx Review] ''The Straits Times'', 6 December 1935 gov.sg [http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17223115 Review] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (NSW) 14 Dec 1935. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001134916 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
*[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 [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/4303 ''Malayan Landscape''] by Katharine Sim with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt. 1946. Includes the Introduction and Contents. From elsewhere, the author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942. Not included in this extract is a final chapter regarding the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255993 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
*[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
*''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.
