Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist Dr Dan Gilfoyle discusses some of the stand-out images from the Colonial Office Library’s photographic collection, recently digitised and put online by The National Archives for its ‘Asia through a Lens’ project.
In this podcast, Dan focuses on images from the former British territories in the Malay Peninsula that eventually came to form the part of modern-day Malaysia.
The photographs in this part of the collection illustrate aspects of landscape, economic development and architecture in the states of British Malaya from the 1870s to the mid-20th century. Photographs include people from some of the ethnic groups which made up the population of the Malay Peninsula by the late 19th century.
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Kai Hendry
Thanks Daniel,
Where can I download the photographs of Singapore at this time?
Marion Downie (admin)
Kai, you can find photographs of Singapore from the same collection CO 1069 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/sets/72157631178208032/
Thanks