Title
One Hundred Years of Singapore (2 vols)
Year/Period
1921
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Refer to parts.
Accession No.
2014-00023
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of CapitaLand Limited (Singapore), from the Raffles Hotel Museum Collection
This is the two-volume text, ‘One Hundred Years of Singapore’, published in 1919. It was written to promote assert British imperial achievement, one hundred years after Raffles had set up a trading settlement in Singapore. The book covers history, government, law, military, education, science, commerce, sports, and others. It largely focuses on the European community, and personalities such as Sir Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar. It is dedicated to ‘the Merchants and the Factors and the long-forgotten Writers/Who sowed the seed of Empire in a rudely furrowed sod’.
