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Robert Bickers @bickers

Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job.

Joined August 2008
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Robert Bickers@bickers
16 Aug 2024
1/9 My chapter in this book ed by @aljhlester looks at a monument, which in plain sight in London captures a moment of British violence in China: a Royal Marine bayonetting a Chinese soldier.
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Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
25 Nov 2025
๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐’๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐ƒ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ: hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/hkhโ€ฆ
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RT @JeremiahJenne: My latest Archive pick for @chinabksreview is Peking Picnic, a 1930s novel of manners featuring evocative descriptions oโ€ฆ
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Vivian Kong@viviankonghk
16 Apr 2025
Happy to see paperback of my book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1900-45 is out. It's now only ยฃ29.99 (before the 20% discount)! Really pleased that the book's received positive reviews on various outlets,eg H-Diplo, AHR & Journal of Social History. #hkhist
Cambridge University Press - History@cambUP_History
12 Apr 2025
Save 20% on new paperbacks in #History #europeanhistory #britishhistory #asianhistory #asianstudies #intellectualhistory #historyofideas #20thcentury #europeanhistory ๐Ÿ“š cup.org/3EgJmcF
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Visualising China@vischina
28 Feb 2025
February is a short month and there are lots of fascinating maritime themed photos in our collection. I've selected two running up photos to conclude this month ๐Ÿ˜ FH01-176: Sampans in a typhoon shelter, Hong Kong JC01-48: A picturesque view of a junk with a setting sun, HK
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Visualising China@vischina
6 Feb 2025
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, Yantai and Shanghai โ›ต see hpcbristol.net/collections/hโ€ฆ
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Visualising China@vischina
6 Feb 2025
If you would like to see more maritime related photographs, why not check out our Hagger, F. Collection? hpcbristol.net/collections/hโ€ฆ
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Visualising China@vischina
6 Feb 2025
February theme: Maritime โš“๏ธ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธ Island Pastimes: Two Royal Navy men rowing, Weihai (ๅจๆตท), 1932 FH01-066 Hagger, F. Collection hpcbristol.net/visual/FH01-0โ€ฆ
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Vivian Kong@viviankonghk
5 Feb 2025
Really looking forward to this panel discussion on HK and Modern Global History, featuring a paper by David Clayton of @YorkHistoryDept, and followed by responses by @UoBrisHistory 's @sulinlewis, @bickers, and @simonjpotter!
Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
5 Feb 2025
On 24 Feb, we will have Prof. David Clayton delivering a talk on his latest research, exploring HKโ€™s place in modern global history. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion featuring historians from the UoB. Hybrid event, register: tktp.as/EETOKO
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The Historical Journal@HistoricalJnl
14 Jan 2025
๐Ÿ“ขOut now on #firstview! Zardas Shuk-man Lee (@saintmarys) on 'The Indian National Army and the Making of Indian Nationalism in Japanese-Occupied Malaya' #India #Spiritual #Lectures #AntiColonial ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘‰Read open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/โ€ฆ
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Joseph Seeley@JosephASeeley
27 Dec 2024
Steel was the ultimate prestige product for socialist states. For the transnational story of steel in Maoist China, check out this new multilingual study by @hirako13, now available on Cambridge Core. And it has footnotes rather than endnotes!! (big plus) cambridge.org/core/books/makโ€ฆ

Making Mao's Steelworks

Cambridge Core - Economic History - Making Mao's Steelworks

cambridge.org
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Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
25 Nov 2024
First History Salon in 2025! Prof. John Carroll will share with us on his current research on โ€œThe Metropolis of the Eastโ€:ย  Tourism and Postwar Recovery in Hong Kong. Please register: tktp.as/ENQXPM
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In this post @YUTONG48033240 introduces some of the themes of her newly published @UrbanHistoryCUP article doi.org/10.1017/S09639268240โ€ฆ

Visualising China@vischina
18 Nov 2024
A new post from @YUTONG48033240 Yutong Wang on informal settlements and policing in 1930s Shanghai visualisingchina.net/blog/20โ€ฆ
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Visualising China@vischina
18 Nov 2024
A new post from @YUTONG48033240 Yutong Wang on informal settlements and policing in 1930s Shanghai visualisingchina.net/blog/20โ€ฆ
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Robert Bickers@bickers
2 Oct 2024
Areas we're looking for include: history of any of the following: economy, technology, environment, science or medicine; complementing existing expertise in the Hong Kong History Centre and aligning with areas of international excellence within the department and wider faculty.
Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
2 Oct 2024
Come join us! Senior Lectureship (Assoc. Prof) in Modern East Asian History @uobrishistory and @hongkonghistory We need expertise in the study of Hong Kong, and weโ€™re looking for scholars working in some specific areas Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJZ906/seniorโ€ฆ hkhistory.net
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A reminder: closing date for this post is 13 November. Please get in touch if you have any queries
Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
2 Oct 2024
Come join us! Senior Lectureship (Assoc. Prof) in Modern East Asian History @uobrishistory and @hongkonghistory We need expertise in the study of Hong Kong, and weโ€™re looking for scholars working in some specific areas Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJZ906/seniorโ€ฆ hkhistory.net
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Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
28 Oct 2024
A very enjoyable History Salon in the stylish building of Royal Photographic Society@Paintworks last Saturday. Billys inspiring talk on his AI-assisted articulation of the images of Tiger Balm Mansion, followed by Kelvinโ€™s contextualisation of Aw Boom Hawโ€™s business empire.
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Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
23 Oct 2024
We had a great panel discussion yesterday on archive, speaking about the reaching out and gathering story from people, the skewed view of archives, the experience of connecting the people...
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Vivian Kong@viviankonghk
2 Oct 2024
This panel discussion on 'Building Collections' is part of the exciting programme accompanying the 'Realms of Memory' exhibition at the Bristol Photo Festival at the @The_RPS this winter. Taking place at @UoBrisHistory at 3:30-5 on Oct 22 - come join us! @UoBArtsMatter @bickers
Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory
2 Oct 2024
๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐…๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ | ๐€ ๐‡๐จ๐ง๐  ๐Š๐จ๐ง๐  ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž ๐๐š๐ง๐ž๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง Why build an archive? What are the challenges? Details and registration: tktp.as/EISOQE
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A post by me on @vischina on a find that wasn't a find
Visualising China@vischina
9 Sep 2024
A new blog from @bickers on a Shanghai photograph album, almost ... visualisingchina.net/blog/20โ€ฆ
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