The Earliest Gold Dentistry in Scotland 🦷 Late Medieval or Early Modern Aberdeen was host to the earliest example of restorative dentistry yet known in Scotland. 📰 Read all about it in the latest A Whole Lot of History ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Join Lewis Ryder for an introduction to his new book 'Connoisseurs and Conmen', with opening remarks from Dr Erica Baffelli. Meet John Hilditch, the working‑class collector and unlikely architect of the Whitworth’s 1911 Japanese art exhibition. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/conno...

Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ has won the International Booker Prize 2026 for Taiwan Travelogue, translated by @linkinglionking.bsky.social, with the novel being the first book translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the award. 👇

The Pictish army of Bridei son of Beli, king of Fortriu, defeated that of Ecgfrith son of Oswiu, king of the Northumbrians, #OTD in 685. northages.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/t...

‘Adoration at the Emirates’, Emirates Stadium (2014) by Ed Gray edgrayart.com/shop/arsenal-matchday-arsenal-fc-benwell-road-islington-london-adoration-at-the-emirates/

New 'Special Section' in Transactions: 'Legacies of the Imjin War (1592–1598) in and beyond East Asia': bit.ly/4dmUfsh Japan’s invasion of the Korean peninsula was the largest armed conflict of the late C16th. Six articles explore the impact of war in East Asia and into the Hispanic Caribbean 1/2

#CFP At the Crossroads: Dunhuang and Its Global Connections (Singapore, January 8-10, 2027), due July 15. Conference seeks to advance new scholarship on Dunhuang as a dynamic node of religious, artistic, and intellectual exchange across Asia and beyond. #silkroad ari.nus.edu.sg/events/dunhu...

The original figures were installed in the 17th century and removed during renovation work in the 1820s. One was later discovered in the President’s Garden; the others remain unaccounted for. Read more: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinity...

🎈Happy 60th Birthday to Centre Point, opened #OTD in 1966. Seifert's Grade II listed modernist tower was described by E.Paolozzi as London's 'first pop art building', but perhaps it's most iconic moment came in Jan 1974 when housing protestors staged an audacious occupation of the empty building.

The Qing dynasty that ruled China from 1644 to 1912 is often portrayed as a land power obsessed with continental growth. But empires do not simply turn away from seas that lap at thousands of miles of coastline. The question is not whether the Qing cared about the ocean. It’s how they lived with it

Oxford, I bring glad tidings! There’s a charming secondhand bookshop, with a good range of the classics, beautiful windows and armchairs, newly installed in the Golden Cross, just off the market. Barker & Co, run by an earnestly eager pair of booksellers hopeful Oxford can help them thrive.

So pleased to be working with Queen Dr @periodeye.bsky.social on this project. Please spread the word!

So @devinfitz.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce a new program through @gettymuseum.bsky.social Connecting Art Histories initiative: “Prints across the Pacific, 1565-1815." (en español también)(1/7)

Here's a one-year job in History of Art at University of Oxford, @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social ; no restrictions as to area/period, closes on 3 June. Go for it, or tell someone you know who ought to www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN329/d...

Yeah well one of the country's major employment sectors is collapsing and no one seems to be TAKING ANY BLOODY NOTICE

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Hey Oxford: anyone seen our missing statues? www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Have you seen a missing statue? Trinity College has commissioned replacements for four deteriorating statues visible on top of its chapel. It is now appealing to the public to look out for three previous versions, possibly removed from the roof 200 years ago. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Please do not send me any more condensed books. Thank you.

There are only a few weeks left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Grants are tenable for between one and 24 months. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

JOB: 2 Postdoc Fellowships, Art & Religion, National Gallery London https://arthist.net/archive/52445

Heading off to the Transnational Japanisms conference soon & looking forward to the line-up of presenters. If you're not in London, it'll be live-streamed.

It's delightful that Endymion Wilkinson's authorial voice carries over from Chinese History: A Manual to his description of his personal library. chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/12/e...

The Swedish government is proposing to close the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and Stockholm’s Museum of Mediterranean, Near Eastern and Egyptian Art (the Medelhavsmuseet) due to financial reasons. Please consider signing this petition against the closure: kampanj.skiftet.org/s/DMb7s0nO

The Traprain Law Treasure was discovered by George Pringle, foreman of excavations on the titular hill in East Lothian, #OTD in 1919. Buried around the mid-5thC, it is the largest collection of late Roman hacksilver ever found. 📸National Museums Scotland

This looks fascinating. Looking forward to reading it.

*Call for Applications – Visiting Scholar at the Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections (MaP)* please see images for more details

A Page from AAS History: First Annual Meeting of the Far Eastern Association Cover page of the program for the first annual meeting of the Far Eastern Association April 5-7, 1949 The...

“A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings.” James Reid, elected Rector of @glasgow.ac.uk in 1971, gave his rectorial address #OTD, 28 April, 1972. The @nytimes.com called it the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address. Read it online at www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

April 28 2026 - UK New Book Cover Reveal - The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City - 27/8/26 - a retelling with many new sources of the story of Puyi, Wanrong, their tutors and the last days of the Forbidden City... paulfrench.substack.com/p/april-28-2...

(1/3) Excited to announce patrikpastrnak.bsky.social & I launched new 📚 book series “Court Cultures, 1000-1900” w/ degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-....

𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒—Jeff Tompkins: "Wai-yee Li is one translator who knows how to hook a reader. This is how she begins the introduction to her new version of Kong Shangren’s epic 1699 play 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑚 𝐹𝑎𝑛: ...." 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: chajournal.com/2025/09/12/f... 。。。。。

Are you a researcher looking for funding to cover expenses arising from a defined research project? Apply the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Learn more: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

🚨 New book give away!!! 🚨 As my book Connoisseurs and Conmen is out a week today I'm running a competition, for students, inspired by the book's subject, the trickster John Hilditch. The winner gets a free copy of the book. @h-materialculture.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

Pavillon de Cézanne à #AixenProvence (#BouchesDuRhône) Construction 4e quart XIXe siècle. Pavillon de Cézanne (cad. CZ 63) : inscr... Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00081100/aix-en-provence-pavillon-de-cezanne

Last chance to apply: Board of Trustees This is an opportunity to help shape the future of art history in the UK - supporting the discipline across higher education, schools, museums, and the wider cultural sector. 📅 Deadline: Fri 17 Apr loom.ly/oOfeOjA

📸 D.78721.LIN Pen and ink drawing of a pair of boots, ?Inner Mongolia. Artist: Edith King, c.1930s. 🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/photographs/371992/

Join us for an event, jointly organised by Westminster's Contemporary China Centre and Birmingham City University's Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts Asia, on the role of ‘mass-art’ in the contemporary context. Sign up is free but required! www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

New book alert from a stellar gender historian - we had the privilege to hear Shi Xia give a talk on the last chapter last June in Paris and her analysis of the politics of exclusion at stake in 1920s Chinese feminism was just ✨💫 www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

From the current issue "Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 1900" by Thoralf Klein (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Paperback of Máel Coluim III book is now available to pre-order from publisher: birlinn.co.uk/product/mael...

The latest issue of our #OpenAccess journal Bamboo and Silk is out now! Find out more: brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Oh please sign! The East Asia museum is one of the world's greatest.

Join Peter Kornicki, Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge, on 23 April for a lecture as he explores the dynamic relationship between manuscript and print cultures in Edo‑period Japan. Details: tinyurl.com/ras-260423

There are two news items to share about the @echistsocreview.bsky.social First, we will no longer be posting on X\Twitter. Second, we have updated our notes to authors so that everyone is aware of our policy regarding AI. #econhist #scholarship

If you care about saving Stockholm's Östasiatiska museet, one of the world's great museums of East Asian art, from closure, please consider signing/circulating this petition (also refers the equally threatened Mediterranean Museum, but covers both institutions): kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

📣 Assistez à la journée d’étude "Le mandchou, langue des empereurs Qing (1644-1911) : nouvelles recherches historiques, linguistiques et en humanités numériques" Jeudi 16 avril 2026, à partir de 9h. À l'#EFEO et en ligne. En savoir plus : https://swll.to/j2PSBmt

Largely ignored by the world’s media, Scotland’s astronauts have returned safely too

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl