What a forgotten murder revealed about the uneasy world of Edwardian Hong Kong. On 14 December 1906, Hong Kong’s China Mail reported one of the colony’s most shocking murders. The victim was my great-grandfather, John Craik, Chief Clerk at the Whampoa Docks, brutally murdered in his own home. The explanation? Mistaken identity. Three generations later, […]
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Why did an entirely male Victorian Parliament begin giving married women control over their own property? The answer was not simply enlightenment. A family story from Murder at the Docks reveals the complicated relationship between women, money, debt and responsibility. Read the full story on The Missing Pages →
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Murder at the Docks is published today.A family story that waited 120 years to be told.Available now from Amazon, Waterstones, Foyles, Browns, AbeBooks, Barnes & Noble, Dymocks and others.
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Why nationalisation made sense in 1945 — and why it went wrong Britain emerged from the Second World War victorious — yet by 1950 it could look astonishingly shabby and antiquated beside places such as Hong Kong. Nationalisation was supposed to help rebuild the industries on which recovery depended. So was the idea fundamentally flawed
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