Britain's Acquisition of Hong Kong

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Hong_Kong

Note that the name `Kowloon' is now applied not just to the area south of Boundary Street ceded in 1860 but to the whole peninsula up to the line of hills clearly visible on the relief map below, which also shows the still limited built-up areas and recent reclamation along the coasts.

The picture below is a view of Hong Kong Harbour in 1870, with Hong Kong Island on the left, and Lantau, not yet under British control,  on the horizon. The artist, John Stobart (1929-2023), presumably worked from contemporary photographs and/or drawings

Patrick Hase, former Hong Kong administrative officer and historian of the New Territories both before and since the British takeover, talks about his research methods and the fading away of traditional village culture in an interview  by another Hong Kong historian, John Carroll