Topics H-I
Hong Kong History
‘Empire’ Drifters: The Macanese in British Hong Kong, 1841-1941. PhD Thesis by Catherine S Chan University of Bristol, July 2019
Foundation of the suburb of Ho Man Tin by Frank Soares Interview of his grandson Frank Correa
Goodbye to All That by Filomeno (“Meno”) Baptista. Memories of post-war Hong Kong
The Happy Valley Race Course Fire of 1918 by Roy Eric Xavier – The disastrous fire which killed at least 9 Macanese.
History of Hong Kong by GB Endacott. This standard history was first published in 1958, and re-issued in 1995 with four new chapters. It is now very dated, but no other general history of Hong Kong has so far been written to supersede it. There is occasional reference to the Portuguese community.
Hong Kong Farewell Memoirs by Eddie Gosano. Greg England (Publ.) Special Limited Edition 1977. (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong). Read Extract
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps: List of Portuguese members of the HKVDC – Some thoughts on the contribution of the Portuguese community to Hong Kong.
List of Portuguese residents in Hong Kong, with their addresses and occupations, extracted from the HK Almanacks [sic] 1846.
Lusitano History – 150 years of the Lusitano Club in Hong Kong.
The Past Master by Jason Wordie Hong Kong Legislative and Executive Councils
The Portuguese in Hongkong and China: their beginning, settlement and progress during one hundred years, by JP Braga. Macau, Fundação Macau, 1998 – First published 1944, revised by Barnabas HM Koo, University of Macau, 2013 ISBN 978-99965-1-037-3IMG. This important book, only half completed at the time of the author’s death, throws much light on the early history of the Macanese community in Hong Kong.
The Portuguese Community in Hong Kong : an illustrated history, volume 1: 2007, volume 2: 2010 by António Pacheco Jorge da Silva, Conselho das Comunidades Macaenses and Instituto Internacional de Macau – These important books do much to record and celebrate the people who over several generations came from Macau to make a new life in the nearby British colony.
Portugueses em Hong Kong by Luis Andrade de Sa, Fundação Oriente : Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1999. In Portuguese. – The Portuguese in Hong Kong An English translation of this important book has been made by Alberto Guterres, but is yet unpublished.
The Private Life of Old Hong Kong. Western Women in the British Colony 1841-1941 by Susanna Hoe Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1995
The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) by Filomeno (“Meno”) Baptista
The Sorry Treatment of our War Heroes by Anthony Correa – The contrast between the treatment of British and Portuguese ex-servicemen.
An Unexampled Calamity, by Stuart Braga – The terrible plague that ravaged Hong Kong in 1894
Who are the true citizens? by H Ingrams
Eddie Hyndman. Website dedicated to Eddie Hyndman by Isabella Palmer