If you've got time for some reading over the Christmas holidays, can I interest you in one of Gwulo's articles? I've listed the year's articles below to give you some ideas.
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2010 ARTICLES:
A History of Hong Kong
Andrew Craig-Bennett's 39-part history of Hong Hong is by far the largest single piece of work on this site. Here is Andrew's introduction:
This short history of the place known in English as Hong Kong is intended, above all, to be fun to read.
It can claim no sort of historical merit – it is anecdotal, it is discursive, it relies heavily on secondary sources and whilst it does have a few dates, it is woefully short of statistics. Click here to continue reading.
Old Photos
- Aerial photos: Hong Kong from above
- 1898 The Albany
- c.1900 View over Garden Road
- c.1900 View over Sai Ying Pun
- c.1910 Dragon boat racing off North Point (?)
- 1910s View of The Peak
- c.1915 Buildings on the Peak
- 1906 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
- 1906 Ships & buildings showing typhoon damage
- 1907. Tennis in Hong Kong
- 1912: Farewell to the Queue
- c.1920 Crashed trams on Arsenal Street
- 1920s Repulse Bay Globe-trotter
- Praya East Reclamation Railway
- c.1927 View over Central, Tamar, and harbour
- 1930s Pottinger Street
- c.1935 Des Voeux Road Central
- 1950s Dragon Boat Race at Aberdeen
- 1950s Norman Lawson's photos
- c.1955 View of HK from harbour
- 1952 View down the Peak Tram line and over Central
- Sirmio
- c.1966 view of Central
Jurors Lists in the 1890s & 1900s
- Untapped history - can you help?
- Four men to every woman
- A model citizen: Hong Kong, 1894
- The disappearing assistant
- It's 1900, and you live in a mess!
- The 1903 purge of Portuguese jurors
Wartime & Military
- Mount Davis Battery [1912- ]
- Jubilee Battery's third searchlight
- Wartime bunker and shelters near Tai Tam Gap
- Wartime Cooking Area C, above Quarry Bay
- Wartime stoves - two more areas found
- The Hongkong News (1941-5)
- Japanese tunnel under Braemar Hill AOP
- War Crimes in Hong Kong
- Route Twisk [1953- ]
- RASC, Hong Kong 1953-4
Places around Hong Kong
- Aberdeen Dockyards [1859-1970]
- LongJin (aka 'Lung Tsun') Pier / Kowloon City Public Pier [1875-1942]
- Roman Catholic Cathedral (1st location, Wellington St.) [????-1886]
- Pedder's Wharf (post-1886) [1886-1894]
- Hongkong Hotel, North Wing [1892-1926]
- National Tavern
- TST Post Office (3rd location) [1934- ]
- Marine Lot 111
- Cemeteries in Hong Kong
People
Amoy / Xiamen
- A brief history of international Amoy
- Old Amoy city
- Amoy's International Settlement
- Tunnels under Amoy
- Kulangsu Island
Other