This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Stories of pig kings, slavery, and the rise and fall of nations. Annabel Gallop makes a persuasive argument for bringing Indonesian and Malay history into the digital age and making historical, intricately detailed manuscripts available to all.

Annabel Teh Gallop is Lead Curator for Southeast Asia at the British Library, London, responsible for the Indonesian and Malay collections. She was brought up in Brunei and studied at Bristol University and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, where she obtained her Ph.D. with a thesis on Malay seal inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia. Her main research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and the art of the Islamic book in Southeast Asia.

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