Almost every year history undergraduates at the honours level at the National University of Singapore (NUS) undertake research and write a thesis. This volume presents five outstanding graduation essays prepared during the 2008/2009 academic year selected and edited for publication under the Society’s Mubin Sheppard Memorial Fund.

Contents

Foreword by Dr Cheah Boon Kheng
Introduction by Bruce Lockhart and Lim Tse Siang

1. Relocated and Redefined: The History of Evicted Datuk Gongs in Singapore by Chiew Jing Wen
2. Enabling the Singapore Story: Writing a History of Disability by Victor Zhuang Kuan Song
3. The Proclamation of Independence Memorial in Malacca: History, Memory and Silences by Eisen Teo
4. Under the Skin: Anxieties of the Domestic Realm in the Maria Hertogh Controversy by Christina Wu
5. The Imperial Locomotive: A Study of the Railway System in British Malaya 1885-1942 by Lim Tse Siang