History Man - Archive

CityLife's resident history expert sheds light on HK's past.

• The Peak Signal Station
• Policing the Peak
• A Pestilential Place
• Soldiers on the Peak
• The Border Area
• The Peak Hotel
• We Shall Remember Them
• Rickshaw Nostalgia
• Life at the Top
• Pipe Dreams
• Hong Kong’s Department Stores
• Hong Kong’s Very Own Mandarin
• Made in Hong Kong
• Kowloon Walled City
• Seated in the Past
• The Legacy of Sir Catchick Paul Chater
• St Stephen’s Civilian Internment Camp in Stanley
• Yersin and the Black Death
• The Ferocious Opium War General
• The Interpreter
• Enter the Irish
• A Taipan's Family Album
• The Legacy of Sir Henry Kellett
• VIP Visitors of the Victorian Era
• Deadly Defence of Honour
• Putting a Face to the Name
• The Gifted Amateur
• Long Live Victoria
• Cherry Brandy Diplomacy
• A Pioneer in His Time
• The Popular Governor
• High Seas
• The Opium Merchant's Daughter
• A Walk Down Pedder Street's Past
• Tee Time in the Colony
• The Grand Old Lady
• A Cut Above
• The Talented Dr. Noble
• Crashing the Hong Kong Club
• The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Murray House
• The fate of General "Chinese Gordon"
• The eccentric Governor of Hong Kong
• The story of Captain Caine
• Records of Hong Kong
• Crooked Street Names
• Graham Street Wet Market
• Statue Square
• The Five Clans
• Weihaiwei
• Queen's Road Central
• Pidgin English