Join this month's HistoriaSG talk titled Recovering the Complex Legacies of Kampong Melaka and Kampong Bengkulu: Two Forgotten Neighbourhoods of Early Communities by Dr Imran Tajudeen, assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. The live stream on the National Museum of Singapore's Facebook page shines a light on the two urban wards – Kampong Melaka and Kampong Bengkulu – which appear in several maps of colonial Singapore but were not reflected in the Raffles Town Plan (aka the Jackson Plan) of November-December 1822.
Further discover what actually developed in colonial Singapore within and beyond the colonial grid of representation and, through the micro-histories of the two neighbourhoods, and reconsider the conventional narratives and framing of the colonial city, particularly the present assumptions about the Jackson Plan.