Newspapers are an invaluable source of evidence of what happened and the prevailing public opinion on an issue. With digitisation, many newspapers are available online, but the layout and design aspects of a daily paper are not captured. Neither are ephermeral aspects such as advertisements. Older issues (more than 1 year) of English-language newspapers in Singapore are available in microfilm only.
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