PART I HISTORY AND THE GATES
Encounters at the Gates: Loh Kah Seng
Walls, Gates and Locks: Reflections on Sources for Research on Student Political Activism: Huang Jianli
Archival Records in the Writing of Singapore History: A Perspective from the Archives: Kwa Chong Guan and Ho Chi Tim
PART II FRONT GATES
Traversing the Boundaries of Historical Research: From the Singapore River to the Kra Canal: Stephen Dobbs
Seeking the Bukit Ho Swee Fire: Loh Kah Seng
Research on Rural Associations in the Early Phase of Nation-building in Singapore: C. C. Chin
An Insider’s Research into Buddhist History: Jack Chia Meng Tat
Archaeology and its Role in the Construction of Singapore History: Derek Heng
The National Museum as Maker and Keeper of Singapore History: Kevin Y. L. Tan
PART III SIDE GATES
Perils and Prospects of Researching the Maria Hertogh Controversy: Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Making and Keeping the History of the US Involvement in Singapore: S. R. Joey Long
The United States, the Cold War and Countersubversion in Singapore: P. J. Thum
Writing Diplomatic History: A Personal Journey: Ang Cheng Guan
Digging up the Past in Singapore, Mainland China and Taiwan: Research into the Overseas Chinese Merchants in the China-Singapore Trade: Jason Lim
PART IV MEMORY GATES
Singapore Memories: Remembering, and the Makers and Keepers of Singapore History: Ernest Koh Wee Song
Oral History as a Product of Malleable and Shifting Memories in Singapore: Kevin Blackburn
The Women I Met: Lai Ah Eng
Researcher Positionalities, Moral Gatekeeping and Knowledge Production: Some Thoughts on Doing Research on the Samsui Women in Singapore: Kelvin E. Y. Low
A Diaspora at War: National and Transnational Narratives of Singapore’s Second World War: Ernest Koh Wee Song
A Personal Journey in Search of Art and Society in Singapore: Lim Cheng Tju
Coming to Terms with Relocation and Loss: Interviews on Diminishing Memories: Eng Yee Peng
Film and the Making and Keeping of Singapore History and Memory: A Dialogue with Martyn See and Tan Pin Pin
The ‘Detention-Writing-Healing’ Forum, 2006: A Public Oral History of Former Leftists: Michael Fernandez and Tan Jing Quee
