Here are some more photos taken by the Jesuits in Taiwan, ca. 1960s.

#photography #Taiwan

Writer's block? Always remember Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 29 December 1931: ‘Not a word have I written, and I’ve 4 books surging in my head, and shall be 50 next month, and how am I ever to write them? And does it matter if I don’t? Why not give up writing & lavish my days in joy?’

From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997 Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...

Thrilled to see this fine article on the Girl Guide movement in late colonial HK by Tracy Leung, @hongkonghistory.bsky.social PhD researcher, published by the Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

desperately searching for this painting that i've been shown in various art history lectures over the years - it's probably 18th/19th century and depicts art from different ancient cultures all lined up in the order of value that european collectors supposed it to have. does anyone know the title?

One month to go before registrations close.

Excited to announce the latest addition to the programme: Prof Madeline Y. Hsu (University of Maryland, College Park) and Prof Su Lin Lewis (Bristol) will join the teaching team for the Hong Kong History Summer School!

www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s...

Call for Applications: University of Bristol Hong Kong History summer school, for either undergraduate or grad students—an opportunity to conduct primary-source research in Hong Kong from June 14 to July 4. Apply by May 1.

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Smearing Sussex (and Me): Responding to Nigel Biggar’s Latest Attack in The Spectator The University of Sussex, Feb 2026, taken by the author. Alan Lester The Spectator has published an article by Nigel Biggar smearing the University of Sussex as repressing students who ‘don&#…

Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar.

If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share

We're hosting the CHA this year at UPEI in June. It's going to be a blast. It overlaps with the ACSC and the CCHA. Our wee campus is about the become the historical profession's version of a clown car.

I canvased hard locally to have this postcard from a family trip c.2001 on the programme cover.

Three-year Lectureship in the History of Modern China - please share widely!

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

#China #Skystorians #History

York History Department - Academic Jobs Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

Good news for the weekend! Four posts in History at York:

Lecturer (Modern Middle East after 1800)

Lecturer (Medieval History c.1100-1450)

Lecturer (Modern China)

Associate Lecturer (Modern British History and Public History)

Find out all about them here:
features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Patrick Hase x John Carroll: History and Hong Kong’s New Territories | 夏思義與高馬可對談——殖民地歷史與香港新界 YouTube video by Hong Kong History Centre

We can now revisit all four panel discussions of Hong Kong Day 2025 (6 September 2025)

Here is the first panel:
Patrick Hase x John Carroll
Colonial Hong Kong and New Territories
youtu.be/3vtk9SnXig8

Map of the British empire in the 20th century, prior to decolonisation. Canada, significant portions of Africa, India, Australia, NZ etc in red, with areas not then (20th c.) colonised by British depicted in white, with blue oceanic background.

The 20th-century globe, as 'colonised by immigrants'.

The 5th of February YouTube video by John Finnemore

It’s the 5th of February. Time for a song. youtu.be/WJBrAIVrK-4?...

Book stall, pedlar, and shoppers, Hong Kong, c.1938 (Photo courtesy of Historical Photographs of China Project, Hutchinson Family Collection, reference Hn-d044)

'We understand Hong Kong as a subject providing a wide range of opportunities, as a city and a territory with a distinctive past that has never been more alive.'

Excellent write up on the @hongkonghistory.bsky.social in the latest @iias.bsky.social newsletter

For more pp.38-40 👉 brnw.ch/21wZEyV

Our latest quarterly round up: a busy three months in the life of the Hong Kong History Centre here at the University of Bristol @hongkonghistory.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

with a song about extraterritoriality, and the wonderful 'Someone in a Tree' about witnessing history in the making; www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoK...

Speaking of thrillers, I heartily recommend this trilogy by @eadbrookes.bsky.social

Continue introducing our network of ECS, we have Dexter Tse sharing with us his reflections on his academic journey and current doctoral project on “Piracy and British Shipping in Hong Kong, 1900-1945”.

Read:
tinyurl.com/5n78d9ea

Great to see about 60 people showing up in History Salon last Saturday. A stimulating presentation on the Anglo-Chinese negotiation and experience in archival research by Gary Cheung, a veteran journalist and independent researcher, followed by bites of home-made egg rolls😋. What a wonderful day!

Accusation in the Mirror? Distinguishing Scholarship From Propaganda Alan Lester The Truth About Empire, a collection of essays for a public readership by fourteen leading historians of British colonialism that I edited and introduced, was the subject of Alexander M…

And here’s my response to an attempt to infiltrate this historical propaganda into a serious scholarly journal (albeit a Russian Empire - focused one): alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...

‘Since January 2025, I have collaborated with Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based NGO, and started a public history campaign titled ‘Malaysia Unbound: Transregional Histories through Documents’…

Continue introducing our network of ECS, we have Yuan JIN sharing with us on her academic journey and current project on the Kowloon Waterworks system in Hong Kong.

Full text see:
tinyurl.com/4pwk72vf

And .. the Hong Kong History Centre here is also accepting applications for our Visiting Scholar Scheme
Come visit us here @uobrishistory.bsky.social
www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/24/v...

PhD Studentship: Hong Kong History Centre Studentship at University of Bristol Find a PhD Studentship: Hong Kong History Centre Studentship on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

Come join us, or please share the opportunities to: this 4-year Hong Kong History Centre PhD studentship is for projects focusing on any historical period
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ731/p...

PhD Studentship: Hong Kong History Centre Studentship (pre-1950 history) at University of Bristol Discover a PhD Studentship: Hong Kong History Centre Studentship (pre-1950 history) on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

Come join us, or please share the opportunities to: our great 4-year PhD studentships are now advertised. This one is for pre-1950 history
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ727/p...

The articles for "Who Belongs in the Empire" have now been published together as a special issue in Itinerario alongside the highly relevant special issue "Hidden Economies of Slavery." Check out both open-access collections now!

Please share: 2 fully funded 4 year PhD studentships for autumn 2026 entry at the Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social here at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

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! 🙂