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Historical Articles

This section of the library provides a selection of articles. Authors are listed alphabetically in the Portuguese manner (e.g., da Silva under Silva).

Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção

The Shroud – A ghost story recounted to generations of Macanese.

Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção

The Burial at Sea – A cautionary sea yarn

Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção

Toot-Toot – What stutterers had to suffer

Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção
Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção

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Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção
Bernardino de Senna Fernandes d’Assumpção

Amaral and Mesquita A turbulent period in Macau when the governor was assassinated and Macau seriously threatened.

d’Assumpção, Henry
d’Assumpção, Henry

 

Memories of World War II– A personal account of the war years

Banham, Tony

Hong Kong War Diary – Click to see a list of all HK Volunteer Defence Corps members, or a list of just the Portuguese volunteers

Banham, Tony

Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941; UBC Press, 2003

Banham, Tony

We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong’s Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45; ISBN: 9622099602 Hong Kong University Press, 2009

Baptista, Filomeno
Baptista, Filomeno

Goodbye to All That Memories of post-war Hong Kong

Baptista, Marciano “Naneli”
Album of drawings
Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart
Monte Fort
Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart

An Unexampled Calamity The Hong Kong Plague of 1894

Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart
The Border Gate
Braga, Stuart
Braga, Stuart

Delivered From The Jaws Of Death article on Penha Church in Macau

Melania Dawn Cannon

 Experience, Memory and the Construction of the Past: Remembering Macau 1941-1945 Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Aug 2001

Collaço, Oscar
Correa, Frank

 Frank’s Story Short autobiography, including experiences during World War II

Correa, J Bosco
Correa, J Bosco
d’Eça, Nuno Loureiro

Adeus Macau

Fisher, Les

I Will Remember – Recollections and Reflections on Hong Kong 1941 to 1945 – Internment and Freedom ISBN 1-85741-038-6, Hobbs the Printers, Hampshire, Great Britain, December 1996. Diary of a POW in the Shamshuipo Camp

Gomes, Daniel R.

A Macanese Entrepreneur – Memories of some members of the Gomes family

Gosano, Luis Gonzaga “Luigi”
Gosano, Eddie

Memoirs of Dr Eddie Gosano Extract from his autobiography “Hong Kong Farewell”

Gosano, José “Zinho”

The Life and Times of Father José “Zinho” Gosano Memoirs of José “Zinho” Gosano – a sportsman, soldier, prisoner-of-war and priest

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Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

Ingrams, Harold

 

 Who are the true citizens? Extract from Hong Kong, pp 249-251, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1952

Machado, Leonor Sá

Maryknoll Convent School history

Muto, Chozo

The Omura Manuscript – Interactions of the Portuguese with Japan, from the Japanese viewpoint

Ozorio, Anne
Jorge Remedios

Our Bairro Reminiscences of childhood

Raquel de Carvalho Remedios

Bela Vista:  Recollections of a Wartime Childhood

Experiences at Shamshuipo and Sendai Camps Memoirs of a prisoner-of-war in Kowloon and Japanb

The Spy Who Never Came Back – The story of Pêro Covilhã, a spy sent by the King of Portugal to Africa

Peter the Cruel The tragic love story of one of the ancestors of the Eça family of Macau

Portugal’s Flag How the flag of Portugal evolved

Alex        Experiences of Alexandre Jorge “Alex” Alves at the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific

The Long March Account of prisoners-of-war being incarcerated at Shamshuipo

Wordie, Jason

Covert War Mission – An article on Sir Roger Lobo’s role in forestalling a Chinese takeover of Hong Kong

Wordie, Jason

The Past Master South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. – An article on the Hong Kong Legislative and Executive Councils, which mentions some prominent Macanese.

Wordie, Jason

Family Affairs Then and Now – Article on Jorge Forjaz’s Famílias MacaensesFamílias Macaenses

The Happy Valley Race Course Fire of 1918 – The disastrous fire which killed at least 9 Macanese.

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