HK Cadets (and Michael D. and me)
Walter Meredith Deane (seated - George Hennessy of Newmarket is standing behind him) and Punch caricature of Cecil Clementi Smith when...
Gresson St. Affray in the Chinese-language media
Huge thanks to the young local history enthusiast who attended a talk I gave last November and has now ensured that the anniversary of...
Gresson Street Affray 100 years on
Back in Hong Kong, lovely winter weather here, and gearing up to commemorate the 100th anniversary of events that saw the massacre of...
British Nurses in Hong Kong in the early Twentieth Century
I'm delighted to post the first article on the 'Women's lives in early Hongkong' page, written by Diane O'Hare. In it she looks at the...
Getting the women and children out
Catching up with my podcast list, on 11th November HK Radio journalist Annemarie Evans interviewed Tony Banham for Hong Kong Heritage. ...
Five weeks
Back home now to a rather excessively cold UK (or so it seems to me - I think I must be getting too acclimatised). My five weeks in Hong...
'Family Life' & 'Scenes of Carnage'
The two talks I'm giving in Hong Kong this autumn are on rather contrasting aspects of material I've been uncovering. The talk at The...
In the UK - just -
But the United States will be waiting .... and waiting .... Books are finally available online. Unfortunately Hive.co.uk - that I'm...
Watford, Dublin, Hong Kong & London
Upcoming talks and book signings - check out list of events to date at https://www.socialhistoryhk.com/news-and-events
Praying for books, or the trials of a long-distance author
Well, you're invited to the Waterstones Watford UK launch .... Thursday 21st September 6.30 to 8 pm. Come and have a glass of wine with...
