The Brooke-Sarawak archive at Rhodes House Library, Oxford. (Research Notes). From: Borneo Research Bulletin | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Reece, Bob | COPYRIGHT 1999 Borneo Research Council, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When I began my research on Sarawak history in 1973 I naturally expected that I would find most of my materials in Sarawak. Such was the reputation of the Sarawak Museum that it seemed to me the first port of call in my work on the 1946 cession and its consequences. As its happened, I was disappointed to find that the archives consisted largely of one room in the Museum Office kept by the ever-helpful but apologetic Mr Loh Chee Yin. Apart from the newspapers of the immediate post-wa...

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