{"id":419,"date":"2012-06-27T05:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2020-04-19T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:21:15","slug":"public-lecture-britain-malaysia-southeast-asia-past-present-future-nicholas-tarling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=419","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture &#8211; Britain, Malaysia and Southeast Asia: Past, Present and Future, by Nicholas Tarling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 6, No. 1 (2010): 77\u201393.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I want to thank Asia Pacific Research Unit (APRU), Universiti Sains\u00a0Malaysia (USM) and Professor Ooi Keat Gin for bringing me to Penang\u00a0again. It is always pleasant to be here. It is nearly fifty years since I first\u00a0came, and there have been many changes. There were, of course, no USM,\u00a0no APRU, and only, I fancy, a very small Ooi Keat Gin. But Penang has a\u00a0respect for its past, and much of what I saw then I can still see. And the past\u00a0goes back to the settlement of Georgetown and the building of Fort\u00a0Cornwallis. Rambling round them a historian finds evocative. Who was\u00a0there before? And why?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nicholas Tarling, who was awarded the LittD by Cambridge University in 1974, was a Professor of History at the University of Auckland 1968\u20131996, and is currently a Fellow of the New Zealand Asia Institute (NZAI) at the university. He has published many books and articles on the history of Southeast Asia, particularly, but not exclusively, on the role of the British. 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