Darius Wainwright providing historical context for the U.S.'s new confrontational policy towards Iran.
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Darius Wainwright providing historical context for the U.S.'s new confrontational policy towards Iran.
Hey America, how’s that Board of Peace working out?
Isn't the major thesis of the John Adams HBO special that snowball fights are a gateway drug to open rebellion against a monarch?
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.
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There's a second page here with the contact details applicants might actually need.
Please circulate!
The UPEI history department will be hiring for a TT position in Canadian and Atlantic history. See the attached post for more information. Come work with us in Charlottetown!
The closing date is 13 March 2026. Queries and applications should be directed to Dr. Richard Raiswell.
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
Hoping we remain consistent in our plans and don’t capitulate. At its base, such a threat vindicates Carney’s Davos speech.
Trying to get my students to read as many different news sources about current events as possible, but I have to admit that the @theguardian.com has struck just the most satisfying chord of sassy.
I don't think I've ever heard anything more moronic and dangerous - and I used to have a day calendar of Bush-isms. Are the Americans that voted for this still proud of what they've done?
For Trump to presume that this will be remembered as anything other than deeply pathetic within the historical record is a masterclass in delusion.
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
Some Mapping Historical Hong Kong updates: we've been continuing to share data with the HK Spatial History team at HKBU. Good level of fidelity between the two databases, which bodes well for future data sharing. Their extensive roadmap is also going to greatly speed up our work on earlier decades.
One of my favourite outputs so far from the Hong Kong Spatial History Project. The product of a partnership between Kwong Chi Man's team at HK Baptist University and the archivists at the Hong Kong Public Records Office.
Having been reading quite a bit on the topic for an article I'm writing on amateurs in the U.S. consular and diplomatic branches... No. It's not a good thing.
Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...
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!
The studentship I did with the then HKHP was one of the most generous and supportive pathways through a PhD I could have imagined. Can't recommend this opportunity enough.
Legally speaking, if the US signs a treaty with another country, and then, during a conflict in which they aren’t belligerents, steals said treaty from said country. Is said country still required to honour the terms of it?
Nathan Cardon, Matthew Brown & Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social trace the flow of people/products/ideas concerning the bicycle's sports culture in a transatlantic triangle in the Journal of Sport History
muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
References to British opium smuggling: 5; to Western opium smuggling: 3; to American opium smuggling: 0
Americans used the war to establish themselves as active agents in the drug trade. Surely there's some connection here to Xi's ire about Trump's claims that China is flooding the US with drugs...
It's interesting that this article almost entirely elides - as was the historical tendency - American traders' explicit and significant hand in the opium trade. If we want to use the Opium War to understand this clash then we need to recognize that Americans were barely neutral and hardly blameless.
Our first video of the new series "Hong Kong History Academy" is out!
8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions.
Lecture 1: Swire and Hong Kong
Prof. Robert Bickers
Session one: Why did the British go to China?
youtu.be/1gl_ecm9Tz0
Choosing to read the potential increase in one dollar coin circulation as a sign Trump is warming to the U.S. becoming Canada's 4th territory.
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 “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."
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I've then combined the datasets so that all GPS points fall within the attributes table for the lots with which they align. The effect is that we can light up the lots that contain Carl Smith data and embed links to the archive, providing an alt. spatial/temporal means to search the index!
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Eric has also converted the dates into integer values so that we can isolate cards by date range, as many cover a few decades of history. I have then overlaid this data on the MHHK maps that fall within that date range (here's 1866).
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Exciting (for me) progress for this Friday's MHHK update. We've begun to experiment with integrating the Carl Smith Index Card collection for HK history. My colleague Eric Chow has been tokenizing the cards and appending GPS coordinates to recorded locations using the Google Maps API.
We are recruiting a Postdoc Research Associate (Oral History) at the Hong Kong History Centre at Bristol! Please feel free to circulate to any friends and colleagues, and/or get in touch if you're interested.
Wasn't totally satisfied with last week's map transformations, so I've been playing around with Thin Plate Spline transformations on the larger maps this week using the same reference points. Instantly better look, with much more accurate coastlines for Hong Kong and Kowloon.