Singapore’s first truly public institutions for swimming were | NLB Singapore

Singapore’s first truly public institutions for swimming were only established in the early 1930s, based on then-modern ideas of what swimming is. But, in fact, people in Singapore have always swum wherever they could access water. Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow Jesse O'Neill traces the history of swimming and bathing in colonial Singapore, from the foundation of the British settlement until the outbreak of war in 1942.

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Pools, Pagars, Baths and Standpipes: The Landscape of Bathing in Colonial Singapore
Tue, 23 Aug 2022
4 pm – 5 pm
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