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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
Sliding Doors of History
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
What if history didn’t have to end the way it did?
What ifs, those tantalising counterfactuals, are more than thought experiments. They’re portals into the unknown, where a single decision, a missed arrow, or a failed winter campaign could have rewritten the world. What if Alexander the Great had lived just ten more years? What if Napoleon had turned back before the snows of Russia swallowed his army whole?
This isn't just speculation. It's storytelling with the brakes off. It’s history on a knife’s edge.
Join Keith as he dives into the pivotal moments where fate teetered, where one choice could have changed everything—from the rise and fall of empires to the lives we live today. These alternate paths aren’t just thrilling—they challenge how we see the past… and ourselves.
Because history isn’t finished. It’s full of ghosts whispering: What if?
For books written and published by Keith Hocton