Artificial Collection of South-East Asian Manuscripts 18th century-1967

Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826

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This letter, written by Raffles from Bencoolen, is to The Marquess of Lansdowne. Lansdowne was a key supporter for the abolition of slavery and for free trade within the House of Lords. These inclinations contributed to Lansdowne's support for Raffles' efforts to increase British influence in South East Asia. From the description of [Letter from Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles to Lord Lansdowne], 1820 April 15. 1820. (Broken Bow Public Library). WorldCat record id: 499218763 Fro...

Jaspan, M.A.

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Mervyn Aubrey Jaspan was born in Johannesburg in 1926 and graduated with a degree in sociology and anthropology from Natal in 1948. Fieldwork undertaken in the following year on a Zulu-speaking tribe of South-Western Natal became his BSc thesis at Oxford in 1951. After a temporary post at Manchester and a research fellowship at Exeter he was appointed in 1955 to the chair of sociology at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His papers in the Brynmor Jones Library date fr...

Hooykaas C fl 20th century Professor, South-East Asian scholar

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Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull

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The South-East Asian collection in the Brynmor Jones Library began alongside the foundation at Hull University of a Centre for South-East Asian Studies in the early 1960s. The Centre was administered by a Board of South-East Asian Studies chaired by Professor J Wilson of the Economics Department and the acquisition of South-East Asian research materials was vastly helped by the involvement of the librarian, Philip Larkin. In 1968 Mervyn Jaspan was appointed to the chair ...