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RafflesCore Part 2

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Welcome back everyone!!!

I’m posting the second ever edit I made of Sir Stamford Raffles, a thrilling quickly-paced colourful edit 🍭💗

It features many different pictures and statues of the man himself, even including a rare illustration of Sir Raffles, that’s probably from a cigarette card or postcard 💌❣️

(It’s the last image that appears in this edit, if you’re wondering) 🤍

I hope you all enjoy it!!!

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I found several copies of

"The History of Java";

An important book written by

Sir Stamford Raffles himself!!!

If you didn't know, Java is a region in Indonesia, it was a British Colony from 1811-1816, and it was governed by none other than Sir Raffles! 🇬🇧☕️🫖☀️✨

(In 1816, Java was handed back to the Dutch)😔💔

The first two books shown in this video, are reprints from the 1970s, of the two volumes of his book! 🥹🎩📚❣️

They contain the fancy illustrations of life in 1800s Java!! 🌺🌸🌿🪷💕

The last book shown here, is a HUGE 1990's reprint, containing the entire text, but with no illustrations sadly 😅😎📕📗📘📙💥

I was quite lucky to find multiple copies of this awesome detailed book at the National Library Building at Bugis, Singapore 🇸🇬💗

However, these books unfortunately were only meant to be kept inside the library, as they weren't available for loan 😢❤️‍🩹📖🌀

But don't worry though....🪄✨

I still got the online versions to read!! Although it will never beat the feeling of actually having the real book in your hands, in my opinion!

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(Here's the link to the digital copy of Sir Raffles' book, that I found on the Internet Archive:)

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Here’s my fancy

Sir Raffles edit…

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For now, I’ll be posting stuff here that’s from my Instagram page

But it’s alright because RafflesCore is glorious!!!