Have you ever wondered who founded the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in Singapore in 1875? How about the life and daily snapshots of English missionary works in Singapore during…
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Prof Kernial S. Sandhu became ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s fourth and longest serving Director from 1972-1992. During his 20 years at the institute, Professor Sandhu transformed it into one of the…
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Taj al-Salatin (The Crown of Kings) was written around 1603 in Aceh by Bukhari al-Jauhari and its objective was to underscore guidelines for just kingship and good governance in tandem…
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Francois Valentijn (1666-1727) was a Dutch Protestant minister who arrived in the Dutch East Indies in 1685 in the employ of the Dutch East India Company where he served mainly…
Continue readingReference McNair, J. F. A. and W. D. Bayliss (1899). Prisoners their own warders: a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements established 1825, discontinued 1873,…
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Published in 1947, A History of the Educational Policy of the Straits Settlements with Recommendations for a New System Based on Vernaculars was originally a thesis submitted to the University…
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In 1847, a landmark scholarly journal — Journal of the Indian Archipelago & Eastern Asia (JIAEA) — was published in Singapore. At that time, scientific and literary knowledge was mainly…
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The Chinese in Singapore: Past and Present (新加坡华人: 从开埠到建国) was published in 1994 for the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations by a local publisher, the Educational Publishing House. It…
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Pantun Champor-Bawor (A Variety of Malay Quatrains) was published in 1908 by the local Batu Gantong Press. These quatrains were compiled by Chan Kim Boon (1851-1920), well-known for his Baba Malay…
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Finding Francis: A Poetic Adventure is a slim tome that recounts Eriko Ogihara-Schuck’s quest to find the lost poet, Francis P. Ng. Francis wrote F.M.S.R., a poem that was regarded…
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