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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
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
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Latest Episodes
History’s Strangest Questions: Was The Great Stink of 1858 Real?
In the boiling summer of 1858 London nearly collapsed under the weight of its own filth. The Thames became an open sewer, Parliament could barely function through the stench, and thousands had already died from cholera. Out of this ...
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Who Owns The Koh-i-Noor Diamond?
The Koh i Noor is not just a diamond. It is a trail of blood stretching across centuries.Murder, betrayal, empire, conquest, assassinations, collapsing kingdoms, and one tiny stone that still has the power to ignite arguments across half...
The Flying Tigers - The Hump Crews
The Flying Tigers became legends. The shark mouths. The dogfights. The mythology of fearless American pilots diving through the skies above China and Burma. But behind the glamour lay another war almost nobody remembers.This is the story...
History’s Strangest Questions: Who Was the Last Survivor of the Crimean War?
Can a war last more than a century by accident? Why do some of history’s strangest stories sound completely impossible, yet turn out to be true? And how do forgotten laws, bizarre misunderstandings, and tiny historical footnotes sometimes becom...
The Last Letters of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette still haunts history. Not because of the diamonds, the silk gowns, or the myth of “Let them eat cake”, but because beneath the powdered image was a real woman slowly being destroyed by revolution, propaganda, fear, and public h...