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Rearview Mirror Chronicles

Rearview Mirror Chronicles

著者: Keith Hockton
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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 Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar Lands At Deal - (Part One)
    2025/12/17

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    In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we return to the moment Julius Caesar steps onto the shores of Britain in 55 BC, a bold gamble at the very edge of the Roman world. Britain is not yet a conquest but a rumour, a place of shifting tribes, chariots on the beaches, and uneasy diplomacy. Caesar’s landings are about prestige and intelligence as much as warfare, and they bind Britain, loosely but permanently, to Rome’s ambitions.

    From there, we trace how Britain becomes entangled in the long collapse of the Roman Republic. Alliances are made, hostages taken, and client kings cultivated, while Rome turns inward through civil war, assassination, and the rise of emperors. Augustus hesitates, Caligula blusters, and Britain remains an unresolved question, known now, but not yet claimed.

    We end on the threshold of change. By AD 43, Britain is no longer beyond Rome’s reach, merely awaiting the moment when Claudius will finally act. Episode two begins there, when Rome returns, not to visit, but to conquer.

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    53 分
  • The Numerburg Trials and Beyond - Part Two
    2025/12/09

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    In Part One we watched Hermann Goring face the judges at Nuremberg, but Part Two is where the story really hits home. Because Nuremberg did not end in 1946, it launched a revolution, one that still shapes global justice today. It gave us the Genocide Convention, the tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and ultimately the International Criminal Court, a court designed to hold even presidents and generals to account.

    But here is the twist. The same world that created these rules often breaks them. The same nations that championed Nuremberg now dodge the ICC, ignore arrest warrants, and even blow up suspected drug boats in the Caribbean without credible intelligence or due process. If Nuremberg taught us that killing suspects is a crime, then what exactly are we watching unfold today?

    This episode asks a simple, uncomfortable question: does international law still mean anything, or have we slipped back into a world where the powerful decide what justice looks like?

    Short, sharp, and impossible to ignore. This is Part Two, and you will not want to miss it.

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    40 分
  • Christopher Marlowe, A Murder in Deptford
    2025/12/04

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    Christopher Marlowe was a genius, a heretic, and almost certainly a spy.
    In the shadowy world of Elizabethan London, where faith was treason and a careless word could mean death, Marlowe moved easily among informers, torturers, and men who vanished without trace. He wrote blazing poetry by candlelight and carried state secrets by day. He drank with killers. He argued with atheists. He lived on the edge of the gallows.

    In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we follow the brief, incendiary life of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s dangerous contemporary and perhaps his darkest mirror. From taverns thick with smoke and lies to the final violent afternoon in Deptford, this is a story of espionage, betrayal, forbidden ideas, and a death that still refuses to explain itself.

    This is not the tale of a quiet scholar.
    This is the story of a man who walked too close to fire, and paid the price.

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    46 分
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