A couple of days ago I had a very welcome call from Eddie Cody, nephew of John Delahunty, the only Irish HKP to lose his life in the Great War. Eddie has given me a huge amount of really useful material which I'm using in the forthcoming book (Answering their Country's Call - Hong Kong Police in the Great War). And it's magnificent to have such a close link to any of these men - just one generation! I think its perhaps more frequent in Ireland than elsewhere that the very lon

A couple of months ago, I again had the very enjoyable task of 'casting my eye' over David Bellis's latest book, Volume 5 of his Old Hong...

'All hands to the pumps!' was a frequent cry heard in Hong Kong in its earliest days, before the administration had its own fire brigade....

Sitting in the unique and delightful Gladstone'sLibrary on a rather grey day, I've been aware that tomorrow is 104th anniversary of my...

A couple of weeks ago I received a copy of the review written by Veronica Pearson, herself co-author of 'Women in Hong Kong', (OUP 1995)...

For some of Hong Kong’s more mechanically-minded policemen, the war presented an opportunity to work with that newest of technologies,...

On 29th November 1913, a group of four young men boarded the P&O steamer Nyanza in London, bound for Hong Kong and a career as colonial...

The quiet village of Vieille-Chapelle lies just a few miles south of the Belgian border. Its eight-hundred residents enjoy some pretty...

Kung Hei Fat Choi - its still the first day of CNY here in the UK, and just in time for the start of the Year of the Ox the excellent...

Friday 18th December 2020 turned out to be launch day for Women, Crime and the Courts. That took us by surprise, as the publisher had...