sex and marriage 269–70
teenage activity 270
liberated 303–5
misinformation/news 251–3
Tin Pan Alley 257i
Verhoeven’s plan of 233i
wall 258i
watchtowers 289i
Weihsien children, on EHL 265–70
Weihsien mourns/buries EHL 297–300
Weihsien, praying for guards 272–3
Weihsien see also Weifang
Weissmuller, Johnny 90, 113
Wells, Allan, wins ‘for EHL’ 319
Wesley, John 122
West Ham United 111
Western Hills
EHLs’ honeymoon 169
missionary killed 169–70
White City 61
White, Theodore H., on China 172, 173, 174
Wildings, EHL visits 62, 124–7
Wills, Helen 102
World War I and athletics 20–1
‘World Wide Christian Patriotism’ 72
Xinhai Revolution 130
YMCA London, EHL preaches 122
Yuan Shikai 130
Yungting River 176
Yunnan, missionaries killed 154
About the Author
Duncan Hamilton is the author of Provided You Don’t Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009 he was awarded the William Hill again, for Harold Larwood, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and Biography of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the Yorkshire Dales.
Also by Duncan Hamilton
PROVIDED YOU DON’T KISS ME:
20 YEARS WITH BRIAN CLOUGH
HAROLD LARWOOD
A LAST ENGLISH SUMMER
THE UNRELIABLE LIFE OF HARRY THE VALET
THE FOOTBALLER WHO COULD FLY
IMMORTAL
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