by Jo Hodgkin | Mar 30, 2023 | A Good(ish) Man in Burma
Advice for invaders: when planning to take over a sovereign state, it’s a good idea to frame it as a ‘rescue mission’. At the height of the imperial era, the British knew this well. By 1885, when they were getting ready to take over Upper Burma, a...
by Jo Hodgkin | Mar 14, 2023 | A Good(ish) Man in Burma
The day Harold Fielding Hall died was not short on drama. Just hours before drawing his final breath, he wrote, or dictated, a new will which left everything to the four year old daughter of his cousin. His wife and children were to receive nothing. It’s a bit of a...
by Jo Hodgkin | Mar 10, 2023 | A Good(ish) Man in Burma
In July 1905 a remarkable short story appeared in Temple Bar Magazine. Its author, Harold Fielding Hall, was well known for his book on Burmese society and religion, The Soul of a People, which was on the way to achieving almost cult status among Edwardian readers....