Researching History: Libraries in Hanoi, Vietnam

by Mok Mei Feng

There are several libraries in Hanoi, like university libraries and institute libraries. Over the summer, I visited three of them.

Vien Han-Nom (Institute of Han-Nom Studies)

183 Dang Tien Dong street

http://www.hannom.org.vn/

Opening Hours: Mon-Thurs—0830-1145 hrs, 1400-1615 hrs; Friday—0830-1145 hrs

The Vien Han-Nom houses manuscripts dating from around the fourteenth century to circa. 1945. As the institute’s… »

The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History

Tangent Special Issue, 6 (2), 2007, edited by Loh Kah Seng
Synopsis
In this special issue of Tangent, the twelve contributors will examine an oft untold side of history. What follow are our reflections on ongoing or recently-completed research into Singapore’s history after World War Two. We write of our engagements with the “makers” and “keepers” of… »

Researching History: List of Academic Exercises (Honours) - 1970s

Compiled by Ho Chi Tim
The following is a list of academic exercises completed by honours students graduating from AY (academic year) 1970/1971 to 1979/1980. Aside from showcasing student works which may otherwise go unnoticed, we also hope that such a compilation will aid historical research and stimulate ideas for further study.
This list hopes to continue… »

Researching History: List of Academic Exercises (Honours) - 1980s

Compiled by Ho Chi Tim
The following is a list of academic exercises completed by honours students graduating from AY (academic year) 1980/1981 to 1989/1990. Aside from showcasing student works which may otherwise go unnoticed, we also hope that such a compilation will aid historical research and stimulate ideas for further study.
This list hopes to continue… »

Researching History: List of Academic Exercises (Honours) - 1990s

compiled by Hu Wen
The following is a list of academic exercises completed by honours students graduating from AY (academic year) 1989/1990 to 1998/1999. Aside from showcasing student works which may otherwise go unnoticed, we also hope that such a compilation will aid historical research and stimulate ideas for further study.
This list hopes to continue to… »

Researching History: List of Academic Exercises (Honours) - 2000s

compiled by Ho Chi Tim and Hu Wen 
The following is a list of academic exercises completed by honours students graduating from AY (academic year) 1999/2000 to the present. Aside from showcasing student works which may otherwise go unnoticed, we also hope that such a compilation will aid historical research and stimulate ideas for further study.
This list hopes to continue… »

Researching History: List of Dissertations (Post-Graduate)

Compiled by Hu Wen and Ho Chi Tim
The following list of dissertations (Ph.D. and Masters) is an overdue idea we finally got down to making it happen. There are various objectives in putting such a record together. One is to aid historical research in providing a useful inventory for the undergraduate and postgraduate history student… »

Researching History: An Amateur Historian’s First Forays into Fieldwork

by Fathie Abdat
As an undergraduate in the National University of Singapore striving to get the highest classification for a “paper” degree, I honestly thought that the historical discipline simply entailed getting books from a nearby library, sieving out relevant information, and reshaping them into a coherent form.
After graduating with the basic degree, I decided to… »

Researching History: British Library in London

by Dinesh Sathisan

Over the summer vacation, I spent two weeks at the British Library (BL) looking at microfilm reels of old Tamil newspapers published in Malaya in the 1930s. This was a memorable trip because the day after I arrived in London, the police had found two cars with bombs set to explode at the… »

Researching History: Archives in Japan

by Fumihito Yamamoto

One of the bigger obstacles for non-Japanese historians researching in Japan is language. Although I have seen many non-Japanese researchers researching Japanese archives, most of them are fluent in the Japanese language. It looks that people who have high ability at Chinese language and also minimum Japanese language ability can do historical research… »