Crime, Justice and Punishment
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong by May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, with photographs and pictures sourced by...
Unsinkable Constable O'Sullivan
I've just come across a nice little story about one of the three Police Constable O'Sullivans who was in the HKP in October 1897, Edmund,...
100 years ago today
100 years ago today the news of the Armistice was trickling through to Hong Kong ... telegrams were received, the papers published one...
Bobby Bear (aka Pipp) and other matters
An interesting weekend - especially intrigued about the Civil Affairs Units towards the end of WWII - British police often perilously...
A weekend in Durham and an Irish magazine article
I'm looking forward to the Police History Society conference this weekend - not a huge affair, but they have interesting line ups of...
I'm pretty happy, actually ....
Beginning to think it would never happen but whayhaaaaay!! the books are here! Yup, four boxes of books arrived at the UK distributor...
Hong Kong, Gladstone, Roosevelt and a genius commentator
Last Sunday, as I drove the 200 odd miles up the motorway to the incomparable Gladstone's Library near Flint, in north Wales, I listened...
Flying Books, Blood and Banknotes.
Thrilled - and rather relieved - to finally have books again. The first print run sold out earlier this year, which gave an opportunity...
Farewells, a find and a weekend
The sudden hike in temperature here in HK - typically '33 feels like 38' - is making my departure for temperate climes easier, but in...
Petitions, pay and play
Close to the end of the talk I gave on the Hongkong Naval Dockyard Police Force at the Maritime Museum back in February, I blithely...
