Sir Humpy's blog

VER. 1 is here!

Over the past 8 years I've accumulated a lot of stuff on the history of science, and after seeing @raffleshitposting 's fantastic bibliography on Raffles, I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring and give it a go as well!

This biblio took about 2, 3 weeks to complete. In order to keep the project manageable, I've kept certain sections sparse for now, and I hope to add on to them in the future.

drawing his hair as individual strands makes it more effective at conveying his baldness

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Little weekend project

Cover image inspired by Matthew Oey's Reimagining Singapore's History: Essays on Pre-colonial Roots and Modern Identity

Compared to other figures I've worked on, there really doesn't seem to be much on Gillespie. Addtionally, unlike biographers of Raffles, there seems to be a collective agreement amongst Gillespie biographers that he was indeed a great man. Whether or not that is true - I'll leave it up to you to decide.

Most of the printed material came from the John Bastin Collection, which is currently housed in the Central Library at Bugis.

While I've elected to only include Tim Hannigan's book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java in this bibilio, every Raffles biography will have something to say about Gillespie, and usually it's nothing good.

Special thanks to Desmond Rainey and the Comber Historical Society for answering some queries I had on Gillespie.

Feel free to DM / Ask if I've left anything out

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An effort was made

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Sophia Raffles: Poor Tot's Baby is the most wretched looking I have ever seen

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( text source: Raffles and The British Invasion or Java )

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i will make smth serious eventually i swear

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sketch from 2021

( source of text: Curiosity perfectly satisfyed: Faraday's travels in Europe, 1813–1815 )

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sketch spread inspired by @raffleshitposting's tennis au

Left to right (top): sarah, faraday