Rearview Mirror Chronicles
di Keith Hockton
The White Rajahs – The World Shaker (Part Two)
Informazioni su questo podcast
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
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- The White Rajahs – The World Shaker (Part Two) · 1 h 2 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 194Send us Fan Mail James Brooke had become the first White Rajah of Sarawak, but winning a kingdom was one thing. Holding on to it would prove considerably more difficult. In this…
- The White Rajas - The Englishman Who Bought a Kingdom (Part One) · 56 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 193Send us Fan Mail In August 1839, a wealthy English adventurer sailed up a river in Borneo aboard his private schooner, carrying a letter of thanks and a few presents for a local…
- The Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part Two) · 49 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 192Send us Fan Mail October 1962. The world is holding its breath. American warships are enforcing a naval blockade around Cuba, Soviet missiles are being prepared for launch, and…
- The Cuban Missle Crisis - Thirty Seconds from Total Nuclear Annihilation (Part One) · 40 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 191Send us Fan Mail In October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear annihilation than most of us will ever fully appreciate. For thirteen extraordinary days, two superpowers…
- How the East India Company Took Penang: A Promise Betrayed · 37 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 190Send us Fan Mail In 1786, Francis Light raised the British flag over Penang and changed the history of the Malay Peninsula. But the deal behind it was far murkier than the…
- Gallipoli · 36 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 189Send us Fan Mail In April 1915, thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders approached an unfamiliar Turkish coastline in small boats. Most had never been under fire…
- The Knights Templar: The King, the Curse and the Lost Treasure · 52 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 188Send us Fan Mail They began as a handful of armed monks protecting pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem. Within two centuries, the Knights Templar had become one of the most…
- Bloomsbury Ley Lines - The Tangled Web · 11 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 187Send us Fan Mail The Bloomsbury Group were writers, artists, thinkers and intellectuals who helped reshape twentieth century culture. But behind the books, paintings and radical…
- Bloomsbury: Art, Obsession, and Ruin · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 57Send us Fan Mail They shattered convention with every stroke of the pen and brush—and tore through each other’s lives in the process. The Bloomsbury Group wasn’t just a circle of…
- Colour - What We Really See · 43 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 90Send us Fan Mail In the 1660s, Isaac Newton sat alone in the dark—and drove a needle behind his eye. Not out of madness, but to understand light. Centuries earlier, Homer…
- Fibonacci - The Man Who Gave Us Zero · 32 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 186Send us Fan Mail Fibonacci is famous for rabbits. But that's not why he matters. His real name was Leonardo of Pisa. In 1202, he did something that quietly reshaped civilization…
- The Year Summer Never Came · 30 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 185Send us Fan Mail In June 1816, a New England farmer woke to find snow falling on his summer crops. Ten thousand miles away, an Indonesian volcano had exploded, and what it threw…
- Civilization in a Glass - How Wine Built the World · 51 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 184Send us Fan Mail What gives a freedman the power to insult an emperor? The answer lies in a single sentence spoken over a glass of wine nearly two thousand years ago. Wine isn't…
- Trump Is Nero. You're the Crowd. · 17 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 183Send us Fan Mail Rome is burning, and the Emperor is on stage, singing. We all know the image. But what if Nero isn't history, what if Nero is now? In this episode, historian…
- Zulu — Shaka Zulu, Warrior King (Part Two) · 47 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 182Send us Fan Mail An outcast boy with no right to anything took a cattle-clan of a few thousand souls and, inside a single lifetime, forged it into a nation, one strong enough…
- Zulu - The Day of the Dead Moon (Part One) · 60 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 181Send us Fan Mail On a single afternoon in January 1879, in a corner of southern Africa most of the men fighting there could not have found on a map, the British Empire suffered…
- Would You Survive a Day in the 14th Century? · 60 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 179Send us Fan Mail How hard was it, really, just to stay alive in the fourteenth century? You wake up in an English village around 1350 and find out, one hazard at a time. The…
- The Durian: Four Hundred Years of Arguement · 12 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 180Send us Fan Mail They banned it from the trains. They barred it from the hotels. And still they called it the King of Fruits. For four hundred years the durian split every…
- History’s Strangest Questions: Was a Lord of the Realm Hanged for a Comma? · 10 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 178Send us Fan Mail In 1911, the British Crown knighted Roger Casement for exposing colonial atrocities in the Congo and the Amazon. Five years later, the same government hanged him…
- The Penang Riots of 1867 - George Town at War · 18 min · Stagione 1 Episodio 177Send us Fan Mail George Town, 1867. Beneath the British flag, another power ruled the streets. Secret societies commanded thousands of men. Money flowed through opium, gambling…
