The British landed on the then barren island of Kong Hong in 1841 as they were hastily mustering military forces in the area for yet
Month: August 2019
The West in Hong Kong (2019)
1841 – British violence, 1997 – Chinese peace. 2019 – Western violence… 2019 – Red peace. Cannons and muskets, Ancient culture. Self-defense… Even Marx was impressed.
Duddington…
Duddington… Waiting quietly, Shining brightly. Centre of events… Splendid isolation. Wyles, Welland. Wylebroke… Wilebroc. Mary Ann, James. Thomas… And the rest. Adrian Chan-Wyles (23.8.2019) – Torquay
When Deng Xiaoping Scared Thatcher! (1982)
Margaret Thatcher met with Deng Xiaoping in Beijing in 1982 – and he was quite forceful with her. He reminded her that she was not
Franco-British Exhibition (1908) – ‘White’ City Indeed…
I was looking through an attic recently, and I came across this old postcard preserved in a plastic wallet and dated to Edward VII. The
The Tragedy of Durant – How Will Durant lied About Soviet Russia (1933)
Will Durant (1885-1981) was a White, Christian, bourgeois American with slight leftist-leanings, whose historical academic output must be treated as idiosyncratic and the product of
