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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

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