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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
The Ninth: A Legion Erased
They marched into the mists of Scotland… and something in those mists did not let them return.The Legio IX Hispana had once been Rome at its most ruthless. Veterans of slaughter in Hispania, men who had learned to kill without hesitation...
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Marks That Outlive Us - Tattoos and the Stories We Carry
Tattoos are not really about ink. They are about memory, identity, and the quiet human need to leave a mark.Across thousands of years, people have chosen to carve meaning into their own skin, sometimes as an act of devotion, sometimes of...
Vietnam, The War That Broke America
We step into the shadows of Southeast Asia, where beauty and violence sit side by side, and something begins to break. Vietnam is no longer a distant conflict. It is the place where power is tested, and found wanting.This is not a story ...
The Emergency: Fear, Fire, and the Making of Modern Malaya
It doesn’t begin with a declaration of war. It begins with unease.In the humid aftermath of the Second World War, British Malaya looks stable on the surface, plantations hum, the Union Jack flies once more, and the machinery of empire cr...
Secrets of the Freemasons
They’ve been blamed for everything from world domination to hiding the Ark of the Covenant—yet they still can’t agree on who brings the biscuits to the meeting.The Freemasons: part medieval guild, part secret society, part boys’ club wit...