Editorial

Editorial: Telling Stories

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

by Ho Chi Tim
I’ve always loved stories. This one is mine.
I started young with History, chancing upon the standard secondary-level history texts – Social and Economic History of Modern Singapore (Two Volumes – 1984) – in my nanny’s home while in primary school.
So I began reading about the founding of Singapore in 1819 by Sir […]

Talking Race in Singapore History

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

by Sarah Ismail
The Singapore History Gallery in the new National Museum of Singapore tells the Singapore story, or rather, the Singapore stories – as one of the gallery’s features is the use of multiple narratives to form an overarching meta-narrative to tell the island’s tale. Still, the flowing lines converge at points, sectioning history […]