History: An Introduction: Internet Sources

Historical Street maps of Singapore provided by Onemap Singapore from 1954 to 2009

Archives Online

NLB's one stop search engine for newspapers to books to archival material.

Online encyclopedia on Singapore maintained by the National Library Board (NLB).

Portal listing resources about Singapore by National Library Board (NLB)

"Cinemas of Asia is the Journal of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, NETPAC" (Website)

Collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library (includes books, journal articles, photographs, images, maps, etc.).

Bibliography of English language monographs (including translations) of pre-World War II descriptions of life in Southeast Asia by travellers, adventurers, explorers, colonial officials, missionaries, and other foreign residents.

Collection of digital resources from University of Hawaii. Some content about Singapore and Malaysia (access restricted to University of Hawaii's users).

'The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library.' Represented in this online collection are a selection of maps and books from this Collection. -- Website.

This website contains scanned copies of Islamic manuscripts (some relating to Southeast Asia). It is monitored by Jan Just Witkam, Emeritus-Professor of Paleography and Codicology of the Islamic world in Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

A searcheable catalogue of films collected by the Asian Film Archive. These titles are available for reference viewing at library@esplanade.

Film archive - Preview available online - Includes films about Singapore.

"Institut National de l'audiovisuel". Preserves audio-visual materials. Preview available online.

"Archives Wiki is sponsored by the American Historical Association. It is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world." (Main Page)

CyArk is "non profit organization with the mission of: digitally preserving cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling, and other state-of-the-art technologies." (CyArk website).

The Internet Archive was founded [in 1996] to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format, such as Internet sites and other cultural digital artifacts (i.e. movies, interviews, images, etc.).

Contains pictures of Singapore

UK government's archives. Previously known as Public Records Office. Have records about Singapore.

Documents about U.S. foreign policy available online. Includes documents about Singapore

Prepared by Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State (Released 2012). "This guide aims to provide a road map for researchers seeking to go beyond documents included in the Foreign Relations of the United States series to archival resources housed both in Washington and in various locations around the country."

The Library of Congress has an ongoing project of archiving websites. It covers general elections in some Southeast Asian countries.