Barbara Anslow, author of the wartime diary Tin Hats and Rice, wrote many letters from Hong Kong in the 1940s, and she has sent some of them to David Bellis at the Gwulo Hong Kong history website. David says: The second half of the 1940s saw Hong Kong make a rapid recovery from the dark days of wartime. It's a [...]
I was in England for the new year, and I took the chance to visit Barbara Anslow, author of Tin Hats and Rice which was published five months ago. Barbara lives in a tiny village on the borders of Essex and Suffolk, with stocks on the green and a doll's-house shop next door to her timbered 17th-century house. Although she [...]
On Monday this week, Barbara Anslow gave a talk at the annual dinner of the Hong Kong Society in London. It was a fully booked event. In the photo above, she is signing copies of her book Tin Hats and Rice, which is the story of her time as a prisoner of war in Hong Kong from 1941 to 1945. [...]
This photo from Barbara Anslow was taken in December 1941, just hours before Hong Kong surrendered to Japan in the second world war. But the roll of photos was only developed in 1945, when she was released from three years and eight months of captivity in Stanley camp. Barbara tells her story in Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of [...]