A Splendid Little Colony: British Singapore 1819 - 1963


The return of the British in late 1945


The local population greeting the return of the British to Singapore at the end of the war.

The fall of Imperial Japan and the return of the British to Singapore brought about mixed feelings. The immediate euphoria was quickly replace by a quiet realisation that the island was moving inexorably from the colonial era towards a new dawn ushering in independence and nationhood.


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