I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see all the latest additions to the site.

General

• Victoria47 was christened in the HMS Tamar Bell in Hong Kong, and asks if anyone knows where the bell has ended up?
• The 1934 Jurors List is now online - thank you to everyone who helped type it up. (I'm now looking for volunteers who can spare half an hour to type up a page of the 1935 list.) Look at the number of people on the Jurors Lists around these years, there's a dip in 1932 then an unusually large jump in 1934. I wonder what changed in those years?
  • 1930 - 1,861
  • 1931 - 1,948
  • 1932 - 1,635
  • 1933 - 1,752
  • 1934 - 2,599
• pepepeterleo asks if anyone has information about a Scouts Jamboree/Rally he attended at Wah Yan College (Kowloon) in 1957/58
• The Hongkong Pictorial Postcard Co. [????-c.1905] was one of the early postcard publishers in Hong Kong

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I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see all the latest additions to the site.

General

• Andy is looking for good resources about the history of the indigenous Hong Kong villagers
• The Route TWISK Corruption Scandal in the 1950s
• Notes on the yacht Fantome II, and its visit to Hong Kong in 1923
• The shipyard Geo. Fenwick and Co. [1880-c.1911]
• The fisheries organisation during the Japanese occupation:
  

  HK Fish Marketing Org Group Photo, by Tsang/Lay Family Archive

Talk on 5 October, and other book news

On Monday evening, 5 October, I'll join May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn in the JC Cube theatre at Tai Kwun to give a joint talk about the recently published book, Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong. (The book will be on sale at the event with a special 30% discount.)

May and Christopher will share some of the colourful characters and other discoveries that they encountered during their detailed research for this project. I'll follow up by showing a selection of my favourite images from the book, focusing on several that surprised me. After the talk there is plenty of time for Q&A.

I'm looking forward to hearing what May and Christopher have to say, and also to showing you the images - JC Cube has tiered seating and an enormous screen that make it a great venue for showing off high resolution images.

Please visit the Tai Kwun website for more details and to book your seats.

The first reviews of the new book are also starting to appear.

South China Morning Post:

Written in an approachable style, the book is full of historical data, personalities and anecdotes that illuminate [Tai Kwun’s] history... At once informative and entertaining, it brings both Hong Kong’s judicial system and its early history to vivid life.

Asian Review of Books:

Anyone with a passing interest in the city and its colonial past will find something to enjoy in this book. For readers who know Hong Kong well, it might even help to <Read more ...>