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Hello! I'm Fiona (@fionally). Thank you, @ratuteragung, for inviting me to tweet on here this week. Let me start by telling you a bit about myself and what I’ll likely

@kamraslan British Empire's a very heated issue, hugely differing views from East to West and never the 'twain shall meet. My mother is British, my father Malay, I'm Malaysian. I

I'm Kam Raslan @kamraslan, your curator this week. I'd like to look at history telling through the museum experience, which for many is our introduction to the very notion of

Due to Britain’s wartime debt, the priority for the British colonial state after the Japanese interregnum in Malaya was to go back to pre-war levels of economic profit and political

Hi all, @ssgtstanleychia here. Thanks @ratuteragung for the kind intro. As my colleague @PostMalayism has just covered race & nationalism in Malaysia, this thread will be about public history: what

Despite the 1950s being the decade Malaya achieved independence, the British position in Malaya was arguably the best it had in decades. With the anti-imperial organisations dismantled, the agenda for

In January of 1930, the Chinese Affairs Department in British Malaya started releasing monthly reviews which intended to document every issue on the Chinese community. A major reason for this

The 1970s saw more exchanges between #Malaysia & #Iran but it was also a period of deep uncertainty for the Shah: with domestic & international opposition rising. Both were on

Good morning, it's Jarrah (@infiniteteeth). Today I'd like to talk in more detail about practices of writing in Java and nearby societies, with a particular emphasis on its material aspects