Jobs - The University of York
Three-year Lectureship in the History of Modern China - please share widely!
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#China #Skystorians #History
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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 UKโs 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/
20.02.2026 16:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by Hong Kong History Centre
Patrick Hase x John Carroll: History and Hong Kongโs New Territories | ๅคๆ็พฉ่้ซ้ฆฌๅฏๅฐ่ซโโๆฎๆฐๅฐๆญทๅฒ่้ฆๆธฏๆฐ็
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
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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'.
12.02.2026 12:16 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by John Finnemore
The 5th of February
Itโs the 5th of February. Time for a song. youtu.be/WJBrAIVrK-4?...
05.02.2026 07:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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 ๐ brnw.ch/21wZEyV
04.02.2026 15:02 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
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
04.02.2026 15:49 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
with a song about extraterritoriality, and the wonderful 'Someone in a Tree' about witnessing history in the making; www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoK...
29.01.2026 10:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Speaking of thrillers, I heartily recommend this trilogy by @eadbrookes.bsky.social
14.01.2026 17:11 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โSince January 2025, I have collaborated with Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based NGO, and started a public history campaign titled โMalaysia Unbound: Transregional Histories through Documentsโโฆ
05.12.2025 07:23 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Visiting Scholar Scheme 2026/27ย โ Hong Kong History Centre
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...
03.12.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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
25.11.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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...
29.10.2025 08:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Objectively the best Medieval Summer School out there ๐ Please consider sharing and, even better, applying! ๐
23.10.2025 10:19 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The student union at SSEES in London held an Andropov Pop Off Party to mark his passing.
11.10.2025 07:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Andy West obituary
Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages
I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka ้ญๅฎ, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
09.10.2025 07:03 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD โScience and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."
30.09.2025 16:10 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Out now with @oxunipress.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social with thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk .... Joseph Stalin banned it, but was it too sexy or just too noisy?
29.09.2025 11:07 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A day in the life of Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor
And then there was this
27.09.2025 07:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A woman holds a book with the title โElectric Wind:An Energy History of Modern Britainโ. She is smiling.
A small ginger, white and tabby cat curls up in a box of books with the title โElectric Windโ. She looks happy.
Electric Wind is here! Thank you for the surprise post @manchesterup.bsky.social ! Available for pre-order and in all good bookshops from 14 October ๐
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CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
๐คฉ Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk ๐คฉ @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
24.09.2025 07:44 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
historian | japanese empire, environment, borderlands | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Mostly history, literature, & arts here; desperately trying not to post political content yet here we are now.
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Researching the British Council and soft power in the twentieth century
Associate lecturer at @mhafhs.bsky.social; Rettig Fellow. History PhD on the Swedish Empire & identity from St Andrews. Swedish & Sami History, history of empire, science and knowledge. Also expect baking, crocheting and cats ๐
Historian of communication flows currently at Universitรคt Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.โs famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
historian | Humboldtian | professor | FRSC | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution
latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023).
Historian of 20thC French & US Empire| Human rights, Citizenship, Race & Gender at the University of Glasgow
Author of Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (CUP, 2021).
Historian. Research interests: photography, knowledge, and the Balkans.
