Take that, weather forecasters...

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 2mo ago

Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7 It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4

With the World Cup approaching, I thought I’d share a topical story about an underwhelming England performance: In May 1958 England were preparing for the tournament with a friendly against Portugal. Beware, warned Roy Peskett in the Daily Mail, of Augusto Rocha, ‘o Pequeno Tigre’ from Macao

Featuring York's own Dr Matthew Hurst (@mrmhurst.bsky.social) on 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park' which is an open access must-read (and must-cite!) for historians of empire and decolonisation regardless of regional expertise

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@jich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's here! The latest issue of JICH is out. Read Vol 54(3) now: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

🚀 Re-posting yesterday's rocket riders (put it up a little late in the day) #skystorians #china #history #GreatLeapForward 🚀

Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week I posted Song Qingling on a fun dove-shaped jet, so today I thought I’d stay on the theme of rocket-power in Mao-era Chinese propaganda. The most famous example of which is ‘rocket Mao’ from this Great Leap Forward poster from 1958. (1/7) #China #Skystorians #propaganda #Communism

Last week I posted Song Qingling on a fun dove-shaped jet, so today I thought I’d stay on the theme of rocket-power in Mao-era Chinese propaganda. The most famous example of which is ‘rocket Mao’ from this Great Leap Forward poster from 1958. (1/7) #China #Skystorians #propaganda #Communism

Last week I posted Song Qingling on a fun dove-shaped jet, so today I thought I’d stay on the theme of rocket-power in Mao-era Chinese propaganda. The most famous example of which is ‘rocket Mao’ from this Great Leap Forward poster from 1958. (1/7) #China #Skystorians #propaganda #Communism

I happened across this cover for the January 1957 edition of China Reconstructs, an ‘external propaganda’ publication for overseas readers. Featuring a flyover from Song Qingling (宋庆龄) in a dove-shaped jet(!), it captures many of the key features of 'external propaganda' (1/8) 🧵 #skystorians #china

This Friday and Saturday (UK time) we'll be hosting a public symposium on "Global Samurai" at SOAS University of London, as part of the programme of the British Museum exhibition "Samurai" Event page, including programme and registration information: www.britishmuseum.org/events/globa...

Out today in the UK buijones.com/books/everyt... … cc @uselesstree.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social (should be available at Blackwell’s on Broad Street ) @prashantrao.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social (and some London bookstores too)

Just back from #AAS2026 in Vancouver - saw some brilliant research papers, caught up with old friends and met some wonderful people.

Excited to be heading to Vancouver next week for #AAS2026🛫 Come see our panel 'Beyond Immigration Controls: The Politics of (E)migration in Transnational East Asia' - 3.30pm in VCC room 112. I'll be introducing my research on displaced stateless Europeans leaving Mao-era China in the 1950s-1980s.

Monday repost: historians of modern China - come and join us in beautiful York #skystorians

Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Three-year Lectureship in the History of Modern China - please share widely! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect... #China #Skystorians #History

Three-year Lectureship in the History of Modern China - please share widely! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect... #China #Skystorians #History

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/

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 UK’s most disti...

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With the Year of the Horse approaching at a canter (sorry…), I was delighted to stumble on this excellent 1983 series of paintings of the Nine Marshals of the People's Republic of China at the brilliant Chineseposters.net. chineseposters.net/themes/nine-... #China #History #Chinesenewyear #horses

Two full PhD scholarships in Hong Kong history at the University of Bristol: www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/h...

My daughter Emily (7) is raising money for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Please support her if you can! www.justgiving.com/page/howlett...

Emily's Cycle for Centrepoint

Help Jon Howlett raise money to support Centrepoint

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If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org? www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good — if that’s not nice, what is?

What's Good? A Collection of Small Nice Things

Everything is awful, the dynasty is collapsing, and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you.

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For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

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Brilliant new research from York's @mrmhurst.bsky.social on the 88,000 Hong Kong colonial government records that remain at Hanslope Park, contributing new insights on how outgoing colonial officials handled records towards at end of the British Empire. #history www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

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Brilliant to see York PhD student @mrmhurst.bsky.social win the @chinesestudies.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Prize last week for his work on the Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives at Hanslope Park - huge congrats Matthew!

Great to be welcomed so warmly in Whitehall at the Treasury today putting Uk-China relations in historical perspective (not my usual Tuesday!)

Monday's third annual York Asia Research Network PhD Conference was brilliant - we had 16 speakers from across ten different departments and centres. Their exciting work took us from conserving ponds in northern India to Shakespeare in China and melon seeds in medieval Merv. Thanks everyone!

The British Association for Chinese Studies has announced the call for its 2025 Early Career Researcher Prize www.facebook.com/bacsuk.org.u...

In 1981, the Chinese science-fiction monthly 奥秘 (Aomi) featured Russ Manning’s first run of Star Wars comic strips. Collected and re-arranged to fit a fullpage format, the comics remained virtually identical to their American original—if not for one key difference. Let’s look at one exemplary strip.

Join us at the University of York on 2 April for a research seminar by @viviankonghk.bsky.social with the intriguing title 'In and Out of Marginality: An Anglo-Chinese 'Brothel Keeper' in Cornwall, Hong Kong, and London, 1889-1942'. www.york.ac.uk/history/abou... #York #history #chinesehistory

74 years ago, in March 1951, ‘Rose, Rose I Love You’ (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), sung by Yao Lee (姚莉, pictured) became the first Chinese record to become a hit in Britain and America. (1/8)

Great to be back at @uobrishistory.bsky.social yesterday to talk to the wonderful Asian History Seminar Group about decolonisation, refugees, Hong Kong and even Tom Hanks at one point... Thanks @bickers.bsky.social, @viviankonghk.bsky.social and @sulinlewis.bsky.social

The National #Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) holds an annual open call for #zodiac prints. Here are this year's winning #snake art 🐍 首獎 蘇宜琳 〈蛇彩繽紛〉: Colorful 優選 黃昱慈〈蛇麼都順〉: May Things Go (Slither) Your Way * homophonous play on words for 蛇: 色 and 什

Opportunity at the University of Glasgow, historians of China particularly encouraged to apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-in-asian-history-c-1500-2000-focussing-on-either-east-asian-history-slash-history-of-china-or-history-of-the-indian-ocean-world-r-and-t-track