Sophie Loy-Wilson
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901 https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Was so great talking Chinese-Australian history with Mei-fen Kuo podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
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And now for the hard part I guess. So hard to accept Dad is gone. Peter was one of the last people he spoke to before he passed away. www.aspistrategist.org.au/intellect-in...
Intellect, inquiry and inspiration: Kyle Wilson, 1950–2026 | The Strategist
Kyle Wilson, a diplomat and intelligence analyst who was one of Australia’s most influential and globally respected experts on Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, has died aged 76 after a long illness. Mos...
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"Renowned not only for his encyclopedic knowledge of Russia and the Russian language, but also for a modesty that belied his influence, one colleague has called him “a compassionate humanist.” citynews.com.au/2026/death-o...
Death of a distinguished diplomat and linguist | Canberra CityNews
Members of Canberra’s artistic, academic and diplomatic communities have been saddened to hear of the death on Monday of diplomat, scholar and Renaissance man Kyle Ralph Wilson. He was 76.
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A memorial will be held for my father, Kyle Ralph Wilson, at Old Parliament House Canberra on July 28. In lieu of flowers a donation in Dad's memory may be made to Future Ukraine (futureukraine.org.au) tributes.smh.com.au/au/obituarie...
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A few weeks ago I went on Saturday Extra with Nick Bryant on the ABC to talk about Chinese Australian history and Sinophone Australia. Had some stuff to say about multiculturalism as well.... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Discovering Australia's hidden Chinese past - ABC listen
It's well known that Australia is a country of migrants, and plenty of historians have traced our multicultural past. But incredibly, until now most Australian history has been written using only Eng...
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One of Dad's last pieces. For @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/if-you-have-...
“If you have all these powers, why not use them?” • Inside Story
The Kazakh president thought he’d been palmed off with second-rate visitors, but the vice-regal Australians eventually got under his guard
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1/7 A thread on the Xinchou Treaty and Li Hongzhang. Beijing, 1900. The Eight-Nation Alliance crushed the Boxer Rebellion. The Qing court had no leverage left. What followed was not negotiation, but damage control under pressure. (Photo: Allied troops inside the Imperial Palace)
What did Australian Federation look like through the eyes of a young Chinese revolutionary? Liang Qichao 梁啟超 visited Australia 1900. Here I revive the cosmopolitan spirit of Federation, one in which Asian AND European political thought shaped utopian dreams for a brave new Australian world. link👇
Reading list on Chinese philosophy used by Chinese Australians in Sydney in 1934
Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901
Two unidentified Chinese dignitaries being carried in a sedan chair. Sydney 1930s.
I guess the countdown to publication day has well and truly begun ...
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · last yr.'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city's ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.' - @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London. #booksky #London
Are you using #maps in research? Want to learn about their history and use as sources? In London in late January? Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place! #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
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Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5 🧵4/5
Pretty exciting to have @hannahforsyth.bsky.social at usyd today talking about Economics and History. Students were over the moon
Ever since I heard Craig A. Smith talk about Yao-Chang's work in 2023, I've been fascinated by his use of historical archives to recreate violent Qing colonial frontiers in Taiwan. I know the translators have worked hard to bring this work to us in English. www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...
Lionhead Flower: A Novel of 1875 Formosa By Yao-Chang Chen
Lionhead Flower: A Novel of 1875 Formosa By Yao-Chang Chen .
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Here’s a typical bundle of file papers from the Boston Municipal Court archives. It probably hasn’t been unwrapped since it was docketed in 1822. The organization of the sub-layers is significant, & I always photograph bundles so that I can put them back together as I found them. I love this work! 🗃️
"Considering the rightward trend of country music through the last half-century, it sounds odd to hear a mainstream country singer endorsing communal economic programs. In Cash’s youth, however, country musicians were behind the New Deal." (We've always known Johnny Cash was cool.)
Down in Dyess
Johnny Cash wrote in his autobiography, “I grew up under socialism—kind of.”
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Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect
This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...
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So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.