1/2 Two new posts, one on visualisingchina.net/blog, on Shanghai's former First World War Memorial (shown below as it never was): visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...

Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there 😉 Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! 🙂

On our blog, a new post Dr Yorgos Moraitis introduces his new book on Robert Hart: visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...

I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."

Out now with @oxunipress.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social with thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk .... Joseph Stalin banned it, but was it too sexy or just too noisy?

Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October 🙂

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

Our Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social is looking for a Senior Research Associate (postdoc) with oral history skills and a record of research in the history of Hong Kong: tinyurl.com/hkhcpostdoc2...

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we, the family of Andrew West, confirm his peaceful passing on 10th July 2025. The BabelStone legacy will be continued by colleagues and friends. corp.unicode.org/pipermail/un...

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for notification of the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall (1933-2025), a great historian of India and Empire, and a pioneering President of the Royal Historical Society. His last book is going to press so there is more of his work still to appreciate.

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Congratulations!

Bristol welcomes you to a day of talks and conversations about Hong Kong's history aorganised by @hongkonghistory.bsky.social : 6 September.

Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: Graduate Conference 2025 25-26 June 2025 21 papers by PhD students and young scholars from Europe, North America, Asia and Britain and a keynote speech by Gina Tam. What a wonderful feast of ideas and research insights! Full programme: tinyurl.com/2sbzdkpu

"We wanted to use collective making to open up a space to acknowledge the challenges of migration, but to simultaneously explore a range of other stories." Erika Hanna (@erikahanna.bsky.social) on the process of creating a new processional art piece for the 2024 St Patrick’s Day parade in Bristol.

'Intimate Subjects includes some irresistible case studies that illustrate the myriad ways in which touch was navigated and examined in the period.' Dr Simeon Koole's (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) book, Intimate Subjects, is reviewed in this week's @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's arrived! 'Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War' has been marshalled into print at @manchesterup.bsky.social by Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter

I think this is a kind of ritual: in the square hole of the coin there's a bell. the public is encouraged to throw coins at the bell, and if they succeed at hitting it they will have a year of good luck. I have seen a similar thing done at a temple , as part of a wishing well

The central (pontoon) part of the Guangji Bridge (广济桥 or 廣濟橋), Chaozhou (潮州), 1870-1900 Bridge of boats. Maxwell Family Collection Mx01-142 hpcbristol.net/visual/Mx01-... #bridge #chinesehistory #chaozhou #guangdong #boats #chinesearchitecture #oldbridges #oldchina #history #historyinpictures

It's great to see Simeon Koole's wonderful and important book Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age reviewed in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4.... I really can't recommend Sim's book highly enough - it's a stunning piece of historical scholarship.

A 1930s novel of manners with evocative descriptions of Old Beijing offers surprisingly timeless observations about what it means to be an expat in China. Read @jeremiahjenne.com's archive pick of the month: Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge buff.ly/YzW8ei3

A British right wing culture war magazine, The Critic, has published an attack on me for the objections I make to historical misinformation. Here’s my response: alanlester.co.uk/blog/a-lesse...

First view of my article has just been published open access with Itinerario for our forthcoming special issue on race, identity, and imperial belonging in East Asian port cities. Keep an eye out for articles as well by Catherine Ladds, Catherine Chan, and Bernard Keo!

Happy St Patrick's Day! 💚 To celebrate, Dr Lucy Wray (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) has curated an exhibition on College Green exploring what it means to be Irish in Bristol Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, read more about the exhibition which runs until 31 March 👉 bit.ly/4icgn8C

a fascinating the tuneful new thread from @jonhowlett.bsky.social

Today's photograph is from the Malcolm Rosholt Collection. Rosholt (1907-2005) lived in China from 1931 to 1937. He was a reporter in Shanghai, covering the Sino-Japanese wars in Shanghai in 1932 and in 1937. If you'd like to find out more, see: hpcbristol.net/collections/... Ro-n0047; Ro-n0310

A nice surprise to wake up today to the news that Modern China in Flux is out online ahead of print, and that it's been made open access! Modern China in Flux collects essays that explore Chinese society through the underlying framework of network analysis, leveraging digital methods to do so.

Our friends at OutStories Bristol are holding an LGBT+ history day at M-Shed on February 22nd! #LGBTHistoryMonth #LGBTHistoryMonth2025 More information here: outstoriesbristol.org.uk/2024/12/22-f...

Super excited about this family history workshop I'm organising on May 31 at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social. This in-person Cantonese workshop will lead participants to explore their family's past in HK & share tools that one can use to collect material relating to their family history. #hkhist

Onlookers around the wayward torpedo, dubbed the 'Red Herring', Hong Kong, 1932 (1/2) Hagger, F. Collection FH01-229 hpcbristol.net #royalnavy #royalnavyhistory #hongkong #Chinesehistory #oldchina #historyinpicture #facesinhistory #oldhongkong

We're looking forward to the book, Tom Hanks and all -- great to have you back, Jon, 22 years after you first walked up those steps

Welcome to our latest quarterly round up. We have continued to host a fascinating and thought-provoking series of talks, online and in-person, that attract a diverse audience from within and importantly from outside the university. Check out more on: www.hkhistory.net/2025/02/12/n...

The Miscellaneous Collection contains a large variety of photographs, from the aerial maps of Chinese cities to exercising with dumbbells. If you'd like to find out more, see: hpcbristol.net/collections/... (Bh-d03; Bi-s126) #Chinesehistory #Chinaphotos #historyphotographed

F. Hagger was an Electrical Artificer in the (British) Royal Navy in the 1930s, serving on H.M.S. Medway on the China Station. The well captioned photographs document the ship's trip out east and stopovers in Weihai, Hong Kong, Chefoo (Yantai) and Shanghai. ⛵ See: hpcbristol.net/collections/...

A sea-salty February selection of photographs from the 25,000 online via @vischina.bsky.social kicks off today

Looking forward to this roundtable on Hong Kong and Global History! It starts with a talk by David Clayton of Uni of York, followed by responses from @uobrishistory.bsky.social's @sulinlewis.bsky.social, Simon Potter & @bickers.bsky.social. This'll be hybrid, so join us in person/on zoom on 24 Feb!

If you are new to the HPC platform and don’t know where to start, why not try out our ‘lucky dip’ function. This allows you to view a random sample of material from across our different collections and to find yourself with unexpected people in unexpected places. 😀 hpcbristol.net/explore

This project located, digitalized, archived, and published online photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands outside that country. If you’d like to find out more, please follow the link to the site below: hpcbristol.net (3/3)

The photographs presented on this platform cover over a century of modern China's history, and a very wide range of places, communities and themes. They represent the work of a 2006-2021 HPC project based in the Department of History at the University of Bristol. (2/3)

Hello from the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) and happy Lunar New Year! For our new followers please allow me to introduce the HPC platform below. (1/3)

Very happy that my newest article has just appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.bsky.social). In it, I explore the beginnings of the Chinese long-distance telephone network in the early 20th century. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Graduate conference in Hong Kong history here in Bristol, 24-25 June

I received the printed edition of “China 1800s: Material and Visual Culture” today and it’s even more impressive than I expected - incl. an incredible no. of images, and price £40 (free online doi.org/10.48582/pma... )