1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts Art & Photography Marlene crosses the Atlantic to

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she is an adjunct lecturer for LASALLE College of the Arts

MGIMO University (Moscow)

1819 & Before: Singapore's Pasts Art & Photography Marlene crosses the Atlantic toDescription About the Editor The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffless establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapores