{"id":567,"date":"2020-02-04T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=567"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T16:28:19","slug":"karl-hack-and-singapores-bicentennial-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Karl Hack and Singapore&#8217;s bicentennial celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Hack published a book chapter and gave two papers in Singapore in 2019 as part of its bicentennial celebrations: 200 years form Sir Stamford Raffles landing on Singapore and founding it in its modern guise.<\/p>\n<p>The papers were on \u2018Special Branch and identifying communists\u2019 at the National Museum of Singapore in November, and on \u2018British Grand Strategies and Southeast Asia\u2019 at the National University of Singapore-Rise of Asia Museum workshop at Haw Par Villa Singapore in December. The chapter on \u2018We Shall Meet again: Britain\u2019s return to Singapore 1945-46\u2019 is in <i>200 Years of Singapore and the United Kingdom<\/i> edited by Tommy Kohn and British High Commissioner for Singapore Scott Wightman. Karl was born at Changi, Singapore and worked in the city for more than a decade, so this forms part of his ongoing relationship with Singapore as his second home, and Southeast Asia as a region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Hack published a book chapter and gave two papers in Singapore in 2019 as part of its bicentennial celebrations: 200 years form Sir Stamford Raffles landing on Singapore and founding it in its modern guise. The papers were on \u2018Special Branch and identifying communists\u2019 at the National Museum of Singapore in November, and on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=567\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Karl Hack and Singapore&#8217;s bicentennial celebrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-events","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}