{"id":25683,"date":"2020-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/03\/10\/associate-professor-peter-borschbergs-lecture-at-the-royal-geographical-society-institute-of-british-geographers-rgs-ibg\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:27:23","slug":"associate-professor-peter-borschbergs-lecture-at-the-royal-geographical-society-institute-of-british-geographers-rgs-ibg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/03\/10\/associate-professor-peter-borschbergs-lecture-at-the-royal-geographical-society-institute-of-british-geographers-rgs-ibg\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Peter Borschberg\u2019s Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: ‘Trading Port’ by Rui Kang from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On 17 February 2020, Associate Professor Peter Borschberg (NUS History) addressed the fellows and members of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) on the topic of \u201cSingapore\u2019s Longer History\u201d.<\/p>\n

Most visitors to Singapore will know about Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and how he established a British trading post on the island in 1819. There is limited knowledge and information about Singapore\u2019s history before that. A\/P Borschberg\u2019s lecture demonstrated that Singapore had a much deeper history that existed pre-1819. Singapore\u2019s strategic location and potential as a trading hub was identified long before Raffles arrived. Singapore also fulfilled different roles and functions for various establishments across the centuries.<\/p>\n

The session was chaired by the President of RGS-IBG, Rt Hon. Baroness Lynda Chalker and attended by about 850 people at the Ondaatje Lecture Theatre in London. We congratulate A\/P Borschberg on his successful and informative presentation.<\/p>\n

Watch a snippet of A\/P Borschberg\u2019s lecture here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to watch the full lecture (accessible only to members of the RGS): http:\/\/www.rgs.org\/onlinelectures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 17 February 2020, Associate Professor Peter Borschberg (NUS History) addressed the fellows and members of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) on the topic of \u201cSingapore\u2019s Longer History\u201d. Most visitors to Singapore will know about Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and how he established a British trading post on the island in 1819. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":25684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28635,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions\/28635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}