Volume 83 Part 1, No. 298 June 2010

CONTENTS

 

Notes on ‘Sketch of the Land round Singapore Harbour, 7 February 1819’
- Marcus Langdon and Kwa Chong Guan

The Circumstances Surrounding the Untimely Death of Jan S. Timmerman-Thijssen, Governor of Malacca 1818-1823
- Diane Kraal

More than a Tea Planter: John Archibald Russell and His Businesses in Malaya, 1899-1933
- Wong Yee Tuan

Chinese Newspapers in Singapore, 1945-1963: Mediators of Elite and Popular Tastes in Culture and Politics
- Thum Ping Tjin

Britain, the Tunku and West New Guinea 1957-1963
- Nicholas Tarling

Planters, Estate Health & Malaria in British Malaya (1900-1940)
- Liew Kai Khiun

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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