Liberation 70: A Book on WW2
Liberation 70 by All Things Bukit Brown Publishers: Singapore Heritage Society and Ethos Books Date Of Publication: 5 December, 2015 The Singapore Heritage Society (SHS) and All Things Bukit Brown (atBB) are pleased to announce their plans to publish a collection of essays and poems, mined mainly from oral history and family archives, which looks at the Second World War (1942-1945) and the impact in Singapore from the perspective of those interred at Bukit Brown Cemetery. The book commemorates the 70th anniversary of […]
Dedicated to Bukit Brown
An update on this post as Jing Xiang has completed his Masters thesis Abstract : Housed within Bukit Brown Cemetery are the many tombs of pre-independent Singapore pioneers with syncretic elements of a multicultural milieu. It remained a largely forgotten site except to families who visit the burial ground especially during the annual Qing Ming (tomb sweeping) festival. In 2011, the state announced plans to redevelop Bukit Brown. Civil society groups, who saw the site as one rich in biodiversity […]
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