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Robert Bickers
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Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net .. more

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Robert A. Bickers is a British historian of modern China and colonialism. He is currently a professor of history at the University of Bristol. Bickers is the author of six books and editor or co-editor of three more. .. more

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Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social · Dec 13
New platform, so here's an introduction. I’m a historian of modern China and of British colonialism working at @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I’ve written six books, edited eight more, and run various projects, on the Chinese Maritime Customs, on Tianjin, on creative & heritage work closer to home.

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Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social · 3h
A new article, and his first, out today from @klalexcheung.bsky.social who @viviankonghk.bsky.social and I co-supervise here in the @hongkonghistory.bsky.social

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Chinese villagers at the colonial urban periphery: improvement schemes, landed property and indigeneity in Hong Kong, c. 1890s–1930s | Urban History | Cambridge Core
Chinese villagers at the colonial urban periphery: improvement schemes, landed property and indigeneity in Hong Kong, c. 1890s–1930s
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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 5h
It was a great honour to have had Prof. Elizabeth Sinn visit us yesterday. She shared with us her decade-long research on the colorful life of Ho Amei (何崑山), a cousin of Ho Kai and an enterprising figure who climbed the social hierarchy in colonial Hong Kong in the late 19th century.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10h
John M MacKenzie, the founding editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Inperialism series that i have the honour of co-editing, has sadly passed away. Our tributes here:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/09...
Celebrating the life and contribution of John M MacKenzie - Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...
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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 11h
Third post from our students: Charleigh Hebbard on the students of CAYDA, the Caribbean & Young Dominions Association incl Nigerian Supreme Court judge Anthony Aniagolu
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Black and white photograph of Nigerian Supreme Court justice Anthony Aniagolu in regalia

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 2d
HPHK blogpost from Dr Catherine S. Chan.

//In colonial Asia, the interweaving of native dogs with ‘white’ societal constructions of ‘race’ and ‘class’ was inseparable from two developments: rabies and the introduction of Victorian dog fancy.//

hphk.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/09/15/g...
Tong gau outside a house in Penny’s Bay. HPHK: Nigel Spry Collection, DM3263-1-4-10 In 1921 Shanghai, a shih-tzu poses at a gathering with a group of foreigners and Eurasians (credit: Hutchinson family Collection, Hn05-078, Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol