Podcast #6 – A Beginner’s Guide to the Five Power Defence Arrangements (A Conversation with Euan Graham) 21 Mar 2021 The Five Power Defence Arrangements turn 50 this year. However, the FPDA, which brings together Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, is little known by the public…
Podcast #5 – The History of Singapore’s Fight Against AIDS (A Conversation with Roy Chan) 21 Mar 2021 AIDS is an illness that still carries social stigma and moral indignation. The situation was especially worse during the 1980s and 1990s when most patients died painful deaths and moral…
Podcast #4 – The Beginner’s Guide to the South China Sea dispute (A conversation with Collin Koh) 25 Feb 2021 The South China Sea dispute has gained increasing prominence in recent years, with China being especially aggressive with its claims. Today, we speak to Dr Collin Koh, Research Fellow at…
Reviews Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages During the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 25 Feb 2021 This book’s main contribution to the wide variety of existing scholarship on the Malayan Emergency is that it centres the voices who were affected most but featured least in previous…
Podcast #3 – What should Stamford Raffles’ place be in Singapore’s history?(A conversation with Faris Joraimi) 15 Feb 2021 In recent years, there has been a growing movement to confront the ugly history of colonialism. In particular, activists have targeted enduring symbols of colonialists & slave traders, such as…
Podcast #2 – Understanding the History of Disease Control in Singapore (A conversation with Loh Kah Seng & Hsu Li Yang 24 Jan 202128 Jan 2021 As Singapore and the rest of the world battle the covid 19 pandemic, the history of infectious diseases provides some lessons on how their spread is affected by social and…
Podcast #1 – Behind the History in Charlie Chan Hock Chye (A conversation with Sonny Liew) 24 Jan 202128 Jan 2021 In 2015, the graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye captured public attention when its grant was withdrawn by the National Arts Council. Despite this, the book gained…
Podcast Announcing the new Historyogi Podcast 6 Jan 202124 Jan 2021 I'm launching a new podcast series that will accompany the Historyogi Post newsletter. Named the Historyogi Podcast, the series will seek to highlight lesser known aspects of local and regional history…
Newsletter Issues Historyogi Post Issue 80 4 Dec 20205 Jan 2021 The 80th issue (XL Edition) of The Historyogi Post is out! Jurong's huge diamond, dragon & abandoned railwayThe one-legged White House roosterGoh Chok Tong takes office as 2nd PM in…
Forum Letters… Time to depend more on agencies for help instead of maids 3 Dec 2020 By Dhevarajan Devadas The difficulties that some families are now facing in hiring maids due to travel restrictions should prompt a rethink of Singapore's heavy dependence on them. There were…
