by Site Admin | Jun 2, 2021 | Miscellaneous
The first issue of +65 published by the Founders’ Memorial surrounds the theme of “Home”. The first issue of +65, an annual, free-of-charge journal published by the Founders’ Memorial, has been released with the theme of “Home” and the various...
by Site Admin | Dec 1, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Four of these from the National Library’s rare materials collection are being featured on four stamps. Four maps of early Singapore from the National Library’s rare materials collection will be featured on four stamps that SingPost has launched. They each come...
by Site Admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Miscellaneous
The National Library Singapore’s latest Web series continue to feature rare materials of historic significance from its collection. What do sleepy Sembawang Road shophouses have to do with London’s hot international stock markets? The answer – “ulu” rubber...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 19, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Installations and interactive activities planned for Our Telok Ayer Stories. Take another look at Telok Ayer through a different lens. As part of Car-Free Weekend, media publisher Our Grandfather Story is having installations and interactive activities...
by Eleanor Yap | Jan 16, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Try an immersive bicycle tour and retrace fictional character Tan Ah Huat in the 1920s. Get on a bicycle and go back in time to the 1920s and experience those times through a unique storytelling tour called “Trails of Tan Ah Huat, Singapore 1920s” by Let’s Go...
by Eleanor Yap | Sep 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
NLB is looking for a number of materials dated before 1970. Celebrating its 50thanniversary this year, the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) is calling for donations of historical materials related to Singapore’s past and has launched an oral history video...
by Eleanor Yap | Dec 11, 2014 | Inspiring Figures
A senior recounts her past through her book, and comes out of it with a little more understanding. BY: Eleanor Yap The eldest daughter in the family of six, Lee Ali had a tough childhood. Her parents were poor and illiterate, and they found work and housing where they...
