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I was on HMS Windrush when it began to sink – lowering the lifeboats took so long people had to jump

Squashed under a bench in a lifeboat, clutching the teddy bear I’d snatched from my cabin and surrounded by some 60 other children and women, I watched the Empire Windrush, aflame from stern to stern, in awe. ....

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What I'm Reading: Auckland Writers Festival chief Kathleen Drumm

What I'm Reading: Auckland Writers Festival chief Kathleen Drumm
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How Hong Kong's unattached British servicemen found love between the wars: bar girls, brothels and 'down 'omers'

British servicemen in Hong Kong often started relationships with bar girls or prostitutes, putting them up in subdivided flats in the city. A number of these relationships led to happy marriages. ....

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