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U DBA Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett 1952-1990 Hull History Centre: Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett U DBA Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett 1952-1990 Biographical background: David Kenneth Bassett was born on 14 May 1931 at Rhymney, Monmouthshire and was educated at Rhimney Grammar School and then at University College, Cardiff between 1948 and 1951. He went to the School for Oriental and African Studies in London between 1952 to 1955, where he worked mostly on the records of the East India Company and then submitted his thesis 'The factory of the East India Company at Bantam 1602-1682'. Much of this research material is in the collection and the papers are mostly relevant for any study of the English presence in Java in the seventeenth century. In 1956 David Bassett was appointed to an assistant lectureship at the University of Malaya in Singapore and this became a full lectureship in the following year. He held a visiting lectureship in the School of Oriental and African Studies between 1960 and 1961 and then was transferred to the Kuala Lumpur campus in Malaya, being promoted in 1964 to senior lecturer. In 1965 he was appointed to a fellowship in history at the Centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull. During his career Dr Bassett prepared many papers on the history of South East Asia and much of his research and teaching materials are in the collection. In 1976 he was appointed director of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies, a post he resigned in 1988 with the appointment of Professor King. In 1989 he died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Custodial History: Donated by the Estate of Dr David Bassett in 1989 Description: This research collection comprises Dr Bassett's doctoral thesis work including drafts and a copy of the finished product, research subject files, his completed articles and conference papers, copies of original documents transcribed, records relating to Java in the seventeenth century, mostly of the East India Company and conference material including the papers and correspondence of other academics working in the field. A more detailed description of the papers is as follows: thesis presented London 1955 (1952-1955), including drafts, research notes, correspondence and the final version entitled 'The factory of the English East India Company at Bantam (Java), 1602-1682'; subject files on the history of South-East Asia from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (1957-1989), containing notes used for the compilation of lectures on a very wide span of topics and countries, but covering particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, Vietnam and Burma, the Philippines, Thailand, Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei plus the draft of a book on early spice plantations; articles and conference papers (1957-1990), including copies of all his published material, drafts, some correspondence with Dr Peter Carey, reviews, conference papers as well as copies of Occasional Papers out of the Centre for South-East Asian Studies including the memorial paper to David Bassett himself; copies of original documents and page 1 of 59 Hull History Centre: Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett typescripts of secondary source material (circa 1957-1989,) including Acheh records 1612-1643, English records from Bantam, Java, 1619-1690, Bantam trade statistics 1607-1696, English shipping in Indonesia 1624-1707, Sumatra factory records 1763- 1782, English shipping to China, Borneo, Sulu and the Celebes, the British in the Malacca Straits and Straits Settlement records 1769-1795, notes on British policy towards the Malay states in the eighteenth century, council minutes from Fort William Calcutta, Riau and Dutch reports 1769-1790, extracts from the Dagh register, English East India Company records relating to Malacca, Penang and Java, English country traders, records relating to seventeenth-century Java, copies of original correspondence, Celebes factory records, China records, marine records, lists of cargoes and ships' stock, letter books and court minutes of the East India Company, copies of a number of British Library manuscripts relating to the East India Company in Bantam and other places and some bibliographical notes; correspondence, notes and papers from conferences (1972-1987), including correspondence with Dr Peter Carey of the Asian Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford. Arrangement: U DBA/1 Doctoral thesis, 1955 U DBA/2 Subject files U DBA/3 Articles and conference papers U DBA/4 Copies of original documents relating to Java in the 17th century U DBA/5 Conferences, and other writers' papers and correspondence Extent: 19 boxes Related Material: Papers of Professor M Jaspan [U DJA], Dr G Marrison [U DGM] and Dr H Parkin [U DPN] all of the Centre for South East Asian Studies Access Conditions: Access will be given to any accredited reader page 2 of 59 Hull History Centre: Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett U DBA/1 'The Factory of the English East India Company at 1955 Bantam, 1602-1682': a thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by David Kenneth Bassett, BA, (Wales), April 1955 Presented in the University of London, at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Typescript, A4, pp. iv, 458. Abstract: Between the Amboina massacre in 1623 and the foundation of Penang in 1786, the history of English activity in the East Indies is known only in the barest outline. This void has engendered and encouraged the belief that between those years the English East India Company felt very little interest in trade in South-East Asia and that Great Britain was finally roused from this indifference by the loss of the first colonial empire in America and the challenge to build a new one in the East. Thus the inability of the English Company to oust the Dutch Company from the gains it had made has been taken as a sign of lack of interest. This thesis seeks to correct this impression so far as the Seventeenth Century is concerned: it is a study of the English settlement at Bantam in Java, successively as Presidency and Agency, the seat of English government in the East Indies until 1682. An attempt is made to describe the efforts of the English Company to continue its trade in the South Seas after the Spice Islands had been lost, and to re-assess the significance of the earlier period of Anglo-Dutch conflict (1600-1623) in the light of subsequent events. The decisive role of the Bantam Agency in forming and implementing policy in the Far East has necessitated the inclusion of a chapter on that topic and much of the information it contains is either completely new or contradicts existing accounts. 12 files U DBA/1/1 File. Doctoral thesis: early chapters, notes and c.1955 correspondence including: 1) Note from Robert Oxford, with attached quarto sheets, together with a review of K.N. Chaudhuri: 'The English East India Company: the study of an early joint-stock company, 1600- 1640' (Cass: London, 1965). 4 typed sheets + 9 ff. Ms. in DKB's hand 2) Chapter 1: The years of apprenticeship, 1600-1613. Ts., 46 ff., fcp. 3) Chapter 2. (No title: events of 1613 - 1620). Ts., 44 ff., fcp., + 5 ff. of another draft + ms. 1 f. notes 4) Chapter 3: Batavian interlude, 1620 - 1628. Ts., 27 ff., fcp. 5) Chapter 4: The Batavian Presidency: problems of administration and supply. Ts., 43 ff., A4 (carbon copy) page 3 of 59 Hull History Centre: Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett U DBA/1/1 + a letter of Colin E. Franklin of Routledge & Kegan cont Paul, publishers, London, 5 December 1960 6) Chapter 5: The pepper trade, 1628 - 1653. Ts., 45 ff., A4 7) Chapter 6: A period of stagnation, 1652 - 1659. Ts., 12 ff. = 24pp. A4 8) Bantam, 1628 - 1652: investment and administration. Ts., 8 ff. = 16pp. A4 9) Bantam, 1628 - 1653: the pepper trade. Ts., 10 ff. = 20pp. A4 10) Tabulated statistics of shipping to Bantam, from October 1658 to March 1681/2. Ts., 22 ff., double foolscap, carbon copy 11) Summaries of documents from March 1658 to March 1675. 43 typed slips, 10 x 16.5 cm 1 file U DBA/1/2 File. Doctoral thesis: preface and early chapters c.1955 Including: 1) Preface, including list: Factors, Presidents and Agents at Bantam + Chapter 1: The years of apprenticeship, 1600 - 1613. Ts., vi, 19 ff., A4, with another draft vi, 16 ff., A4 2) Chapter 2: The drift towards war, 1614 - 1620,. Ts., ff. 17-24, A4 3) Stock received at Bantam, 1658/9 - 1681, and shipping. Ms. tables and notes 13 ff., fcp. 1 file U DBA/1/3 File. Doctoral thesis: drafts including: c.1955 1) Preface. Ts., 4 ff., fcp + 1 carbon copy 2) Chapter 1: The years of apprenticeship, 1600 - 1613. Ts., 47 ff., A4 3) Chapter 1: another draft. Ts., 46 ff., fcp, carbon copy 1 file U DBA/1/4 File. Doctoral thesis: drafts and notes c.1955 Including: 1) Chapter 2: A question of alternatives, 1613 - 1619. Ts., 32 ff., fcp, with Ms. emendations 2) Chapter 2: another draft. Ts., 44 ff., carbon copy. fcp 3) Shipping problems. Ts., 6 ff., A4 + Ms. notes, 7 ff. 4) Chapter 3: old draft, part only. Ts., ff. 17-43, A4 5) Coromandel, Bengal, Surat. (Mostly 1630's and 1640's). Ts., 13 ff., fcp 1 file page 4 of 59 Hull History Centre: Papers of Dr David Kenneth Bassett U DBA/1/5 File. Doctoral thesis: draft, notes and correspondence c.1955 including: 1) Chapter 1: The years of apprenticeship, 1600 - 1613. Ts., 46 ff., fcp., carbon copy 2) Chapter 2: (no title). Ts., 44 ff., fcp., carbon copy 3) Chapter 2: notes. Ms., 8 ff. 4) Chapter 4: The Bantam Presidency: problems of administration and supply.
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