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Welcome to our quarterly roundup!
Across the summer we paused our public programmes of events, and Centre members focused on their research and writing, and taking a breather on vacation.
But, we never stand still. At the beginning of August, …
《香港歷史學堂系列》
第一堂
太古集團與香港
畢可思教授
太古這間原本在英國利物浦不知經傳的貿易船運公司，何以會來到中國、最後在香港落地生根、並成為叱咤風雲的龍頭企業？這一堂，畢可思教授為我們回顧這間英資大行的發展軌跡。這是一個企業的歷史，更是香港全球化的歷史。
第一節
英國人為何來到中國
“Hong Kong History Academy”
Lecture 1
Swire and Hong Kong
Prof. Robert Bickers
How did Swire, once a modest trading and shipping company from Liverpool, find its way to China and transform into …
As you will find below, in this, the third quarter of our third year of Centre activity, we have hosted a number of academic talks and public-focused events, reflecting our commitment to advancing scholarly debates, and engaging with the broad …
Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History, organised by the Hong Kong History Centre, is to be held on 25-26 June 2025 at the University of Bristol. This conference aims to provide a platform for emerging scholars to present innovative …
Welcome to our latest quarterly round up.
This January we marked the tenth anniversary of the launch in January 2015 at the University of Hong Kong of our Hong Kong History Project, predecessor to the Hong Kong History Centre. On …
Hong Kong History Centre was founded in University of Bristol in 2022. What does the Centre want to achieve? What is its main focus? Prof. Robert Bickers, Co-Director of the Centre will share with us his visions in the last …
On 6th November 2024, we had our fourth meeting of Network of Early Career Scholars on Hong Kong History. An enjoyable afternoon with Ryan Iu (University of Bristol) exploring the Hong Kong Chinese and elite network within both local and …
Hong Kong History Centre, Society for Hong Kong Studies, and the Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences have co-organized ‘Hong Kong History Day 2024’ on 14th September 2024. More than a …
Our Research Director, Prof. Ray Yep, attended the Annual Conference of Academy of Hong Kong Studies in Education University of Hong Kong last week (6-8 March 2024). A great opportunity to introduce the development of the Centre to friends in …
And we were on tour in Japan last week!
On Tuesday our Co-directors Robert Bickers & Vivian Kong were at a roundtable at Kyoto University, introducing the Centre and some of its major research outputs. On Thursday & Friday, the …