Hong Kong History Podcast

The Hong Kong History Podcast are recordings of conversations between two Hong Kong resident neighbours, who share a fascination with Hong Kong’s intriguing and complicated history but with an emphasis on Hong Kong’s story as a major port.

Recent Episodes

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Episode 14 : The small details: Edgar Goodman RMLI

The English historian Edward Thomson once wrote of the “enormous condescension of posterity” towards those of us – overwhelmingly most of us – who are not movers and shakers. Yet it is those lives, humdrum and invisible though they often are, that actually make moving and shaking possible. In being moved and shaken, it’s we nobodies who actually do the moving and shaking.

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Episode 13 : How names can tell us a story, Part 1: Kwok Acheong

Almost wherever you are there will be streets named after town worthies, or national eminences, or significant entities and events. Sometimes, particularly in larger towns, the names can reveal additional historical detail. What the main trades were and where they concentrated, for example.

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Episode 12 : Historians and Hong Kong: A most colonial ‘Colonial’

Over around a century and a half Hong Kong’s story has been told by professional and amateur historians. A few names became scores following the explosion in Hong Kong studies after the 1970s. Today there are as many and more netizens and bloggers. We don’t often know much detail about any of the handful of colonialist pioneers of the 1890-1960 period. 

Podcast Hosts

Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies

Host

Stephen Davies has been in Hong Kong on and off since 1947 and his fascination with navigation and its history began with service in the Royal Navy in the early 1960s. He taught at the University of Hong Kong until 2022 when he retired, though he continues to actively research and publish.

DJ Clark

DJ Clark

Host

DJ Clark is a multimedia journalist and lecturer based in Hong Kong. He has been working in Greater China for 15 years during which time he has developed a keen interest in the history of the area. More on DJ at his website www.djclark.com