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Historical books online
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*[https://archive.org/details/barbarianeyelord00napi/mode/2up ''Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China, 1834, the prelude to Hong Kong''] by Priscilla Napier 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1798051 "Note on the Island of Hong-Kong"] by A R Johnston .HM Deputy Superintendent of Trade, an article from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 14. January 1, 1844'' Archive.org
**''China Sea Directory Volume III. The Coasts of China from Hong Kong to the Korea etc'' Edited by Captain Charles J Bulloch, RN. [https://archive.org/details/chinaseadirecto00offigoog 1874] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164986 2nd edition 1884] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongillustra00warn/mode/2up ''Hong Kong illustrated : views and news, 1840-1890''] by John Warner 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Plague
**[https://archive.org/details/1915480.med.yale.edu/page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong ... Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. August 1894''] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1097_00000441-189703000-00001/mode/2up "The Plague. The Recent And Present Outbreaks In Hong-Kong and India"] by Edward F. Willoughby ''The American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' March 1897. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/b21297496/page/n7 ''Report on the causes and continuance of plague in Hongkong and suggestions as to remedial measures''] by WJ Simpson 1903 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E8C ''A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton''] by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double. This company had an agent in Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial0000hahn/page/n7 ''China to Me : a Partial Autobiography''] by Emily Hahn 1944. [https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial00hahn 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/chinatome00hahn 3rd file] 1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. [http://www.librarything.com/work/144031/reviews/86980107 About the book] librarything.com. "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongepilogue0000morr/mode/2up ''Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire''] by Jan Morris. Second edition 1993, first published 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00came/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of Hong Kong''] by Nigel Cameron 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon00wels/mode/2up ''A History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh 1993. USA title [https://archive.org/details/borrowedplacehi00wels/mode/2up ''A Borrowed Place : the History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenboymemorie00boot/mode/2up ''Golden boy : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by Martin Booth 2005, first published 2004. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/gweilomemoriesof0000boot/mode/2up ''Gweilo : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by Martin Booth. The author was born 1944. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
 
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/taipannovelofhon00clav/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tai-Pan; a novel of Hong Kong''] by James Clavell 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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