We're inviting writers to review Prudence Leung Kwok Lau & Vanessa Winghei Yeung's 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 (CUHK Press, October 2026). If you're interested in reading this book ahead of its publication, please send an email to [email protected]. 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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NEWS: C20 Society and campaign group Save the National Glass Centre have submitted a joint listing application for the Sunderland venue, ahead of its closure on July 31st and threatened demolition. Crucially the building passed the 30 years threshold in Feb 2026. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

You've still got two weeks to enter the Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize, for £1,000 and publication in @burlingtoncontemp.bsky.social contemporary.burlington.org.uk/writing_priz...

Hong Kong History Day 2026 Hong Kong History Day 2026 Date: 5 Sep 2026 (Sat) Venue: Arts Complex, University of Bristol, 7 Woodland Road, United Kingdom Ticket: Non-student £8, Student £5 (Lunch and Hong Kong style refreshment included) Secure your spot: tinyurl.com/hkhchistday2...

The Piper Alpha Memorial window in the Toon's Kirk, Aberdeen. 38 years. Never forgotten

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 | Jennifer Eagleton on Booker Prize-winning 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, trans. Lin King: "... the act of consuming, exoticising, and fundamentally misunderstanding a colonised culture when one travels through it." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2026/07/05/t... 。。。

George MacDonald (1824–1905) encouraged Charles Dodgson (“Lewis Carroll”) to publish 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥. His own children’s #fantasy stories – 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯 & others – helped inspire JRR Tolkien & CS Lewis #BookWormSat #C19 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This represents the first account of the Toshakhana or Treasure House, a colonial institution appropriated from earlier Indian and Persian practice. I argue that instead of solidifying regard it produced indifference to the gift & giver. A dream come true to publish in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Just published in the "Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes" series: "The Cape Route and the Silk Roads" edited by Carmen Amado Mendes and João Paulo Oliveira e Costa. Read more here: brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Victor Mair (1943-2026) bryanvannorden.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Scotland's First Warriors is now open at @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social until 16 May 2027! In their exhibition, you can explore the first signs of organised warfare, from the Neolithic to the Romans, through over 200 objects, including our Beith Shield, on loan for this exhibition!

Victor Mair was really a brilliant man. He was the kind of person where, even if you disagreed with him, those disagreements that made you more knowledgeable and your arguments more thoughtful, because almost no one contained his level of expertise. He will be missed

oh no, a giant of the field - there is barely any topic where you wouldn't find some paper by Mair.

WANG Hui, editor of our established book series "Ideas, History, and Modern China" and the forthcoming "Library of Modern Chinese Thought," was recently awarded International “Antonio Feltrinelli” Prize for Moral and Historical Sciences. Congratulazioni, Hui! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Quincy Ngan - The Matter of Color in Early Modern China À paraître en mars aux Yale UP

The Linnaeus University (southern Sweden) is inviting applications for 5-6 fully funded PhD positions in the arts and humanities, including #history, #arthistory and #religiousstudies. International applicants without prior knowledge of Swedish are encouraged to apply.

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Your June reminder that if you're a UK-based holder of an Arts, Humanities or Social Science (SHAPE) degree, or equivalent, within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of your PhD, you are warmly invited to join the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network. 1/2

Over the weekend in the ARB: Sean Paterson reviews "China's Aristocratic Age" by Yuri Pines @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/chinas-arist...

48 hours left to submit your proposal for the AAH Conference 2027! We encourage proposals for sessions that engage with ideas in our Scope/Provocation and which will make for an exciting, topical, and thought-provoking event. Deadline: Wednesday 1 July 2026 Submit now: https://loom.ly/9GsU-w8

Dr Anke Hein et al recently published the findings of their project investigating archaeological material collected from north-west China in the 1920s and housed at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Read their findings in @antiquity.ac.uk doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Is this the most beautiful mosaic in Ravenna?

A sad piece of news not getting enough airtime on this channel. Juliet Gardiner not only an important writer of high-quality social history for wide consumption in her own right, but a very significant impresario as editor of History Today. And her memoir is a must-read for postwar historians.

On advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Call for Applications from the Early Medieval China Group! The Group will sponsor up to two panels on topics related to early medieval China that are to be proposed to #AAS in #Boston in 2027. More information below! #medieval #china #asianstudies #aas2027

Excellent essay, this, and super thorough. 54 years ago, the first essay topic I was set in Cambridge Oriental Studies was "The value of writing Chinese history by dynasties" (RIP Joseph McDermott). Got no memory of my answer but I'm sure what I wrote was mostly a) banal b) wrong

new book from Yuri Pines! Out 30th June!! #histbookchat #sinology

Nunc fluens facit tempus, nunc stans facit aeternitatum. The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity. — Boethius chinaheritage.net/journal/lao-...

Boutique Fleurs https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286477

I was privileged on Wednesday evening to be at the launch of the Genghis Khan exhibition at the Royal Armouries museum. If you are in Leeds for #IMC2026 don't miss it. Things of great beauty never seen out of Mongolia before. Lots on women and culture. #medievalsky #genghiskhan #Mongolia

Just three more days until Met Museum Raphael show closes. I was at the Met yesterday and went for one last viewing, and spent a very long time with this drawing of two apostles, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social's collection. Really think it's one of the most remarkable drawings I've ever seen

Rumour, intelligence and propaganda Ian Dubrowsky has spent five weeks delving into our Chinese Collections to support his research into industrial disasters and labour in Maoist China. 🔗Read more about Ian's experience as WongAvery Visiting Scholar: https://loom.ly/_pe2pSg

Announcing a new book series with DeGruyter Brill / @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Connected Worlds in Early Modernity Series Editors: Christina Lee & Julia Schleck brill.com/page/518510 Pls contact me - [email protected] - with questions &/or book proposals!

There's a £1k prize going for a previously unpublished essay of 1000–1500 word on South Netherlandish Art 1400-1800. Open to early career scholars worldwide (15 years from most recent post-graduate degree). Here's the details, and please spread the word: www.burlington.org.uk/jobs-noticeb...

Applications for the Mid-Career Fellowships are open. The programme supports individual research projects fostering public engagement and understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4f09Crd

Today is Septidi the 7th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cucumbers.#JacobinDay See today's page

Unmissable lecture for anyone interested in Pictish art. Professor Heather Pulliam of the University of Edinburgh delivers this year's Groam House Museum Annual Academic Lecture on monsters in Pictish sculpture. Online this Thursday 25 June at 7.30pm, tickets £3 members/students and £6 non-members.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

The APEX Awards are now open for applications. In partnership with @britishacademy.bsky.social and @raeng.org.uk and supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk, the scheme offers independent researchers the opportunity to pursue genuine interdisciplinary research. Find out more: royalsociety.org/grants/apex-...

Hydration break. 📸NMS

In the new episode of HENI Talks, Warburg Institute Director Bill Sherman explores the work of Charles Holden, the uncompromising architect of London’s first two modern skyscrapers, including Senate House. Watch now ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Je... @sas-news.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social

As many of you are aware, it's toasty here in Oxford. What's your recommended reading for cooling down? 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' for mysteries and icebreaker ships? 'The Living Mountain' for high altitude nature? 'The Wind in the Willows' for rowing boats on the river?

Out tomorrow: Very much looking forward to reading this.

Meet the Daoist deity Kuixing, who is the brightest star in the Plough or Big Dipper (part of the Ursa Major or Great Bear constellation). He is also known as the God of Literature and exams! 1/3

One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

My "Photography Archive" is now www.gregorylee.net/people-and-p.... I have also added a new page: The Plants and non-human animals photography archive – a selection of my recent photographs of birds, insects, other non-human animals and plant life' www.gregorylee.net/photographs-...

New book is out! Before and Beyond Pingcheng: The Xianbei in Inner Mongolia (4th-6th Centuries), edited by Annette L. Juliano & Judith A. Lerner. Link: pse.is/98r72s #China