Insight - really an 'all the historical stuff in one place' page
(some of which is reachable through other links on the site)
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Newmarket, Newmarket & its HKPs - policemen featured in PHKIH
Co. Cork Family Trees - the two 'strands' of Newmarket men
St Michael's graves - so many ended their days in Hongkong
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Crimes & the men Canton Road, 1923 - a violent shoot-out in Yaumatei & the who police them medals awarded afterwards
Felix Villas murder, 1930 - an unsolved crime. PDF on link or also available through Gwulo
Crimes in Hong Kong, 1918 - Patricia O'Sullivan talking with Annemarie Evans for Hong Kong Heritage RTHK - podcast
Gresson St Affray Centenary - with Annemarie Evans on the anniversary of the siege -podcast
Gresson St. Siege 100 years on - SCMP marks the anniversary with this article by Stuart Heaver
Also at Gresson Street - some of the many others involved in the 1918 Wanchai siege. (PDF)
Henry "Kid" Marriott - Dockyard policeman and noted boxer, a hero of Gresson St - article by Richard Morgan (PDF)
Patrick Frances Boulger - of the HKP who was in charge of Cheung Chau P/Station when attacked by pirates (PDF)
Cheung Chau carnage - SCMP article on the pirate raid and its aftermath
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More HK history Hong Kong Fire Brigade at 150 - a Hong Kong Heritage podcast exploring its history
Nursing in Hong Kong - British nurses here in the early part of the 20th century by Diane O'Hare (PDF)
The perils of nursing in HK - a newspaper article from 1913 lamenting the treatment of nurses (PDF)
Cadets: the start of HK's Civil Service - RTHK Hong Kong Heritage, the first 7 Cadet officers, podcast
Henry Ernest Wodehouse - HK's 7th cadet, long time Magistrate & Coroner, father to novelist & librettist, PG Wodehouse - podcast
HK celebrates St Patrick's Day - a 'then & now' article for
St Patrick's Day 2019 in SCMP
Celebrating the Peace 1919 - when all HK was festooned with red lanterns to celebrate the end of the
Great War. Gwulo article
Forged in Fire - fire fighting before the establishment of the Fire Brigade. SCMP article.
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Women, Crime and the Courts
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'Invisible Women' - SCMPost Magazine featured excerpts from Women, Crime & the Courts as its cover story for Sunday 28th March 2021. Wonderful illustrations by the acclaimed Adolfo Arranz.
Click the link (above) for pdf, with the cover itself here.
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