And then there was this

My chapter 'Out of Shanghai' takes the journey of this man, photographed in 1998 in London by @tomhunterart.bsky.social as the prompt for a discussion of the end of the British presence in the city after the Second World War. Thanks to Jay and Kolleen, to Tom Hunter, and to colleagues on the project

Here's the table of contents

It's arrived! 'Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War' has been marshalled into print at @manchesterup.bsky.social by Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter

It now has a cover! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183026/

2nd with @sulinlewis.bsky.social All about cars, Malaysia, family histories and what we can do as historians with what's immediately to hand: doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

It doesn’t have a cover yet, so here’s the table of contents.

Here are some more book covers. Empire Made Me (2003), is a 2024 History Workshop Radical Read. A contract for a new PRC Chinese translation’s just been signed. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/public-histo...

You can judge for yourself, from reviews or reading my work, but I think it’s improved since this, the earliest verdict I can find on a piece by me on Chinese history – April 1979, aged 14. I managed to reread the essay, despite the handwriting. The mark and comment were quite justified.

New platform, so here's an introduction. I’m a historian of modern China and of British colonialism working at @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I’ve written six books, edited eight more, and run various projects, on the Chinese Maritime Customs, on Tianjin, on creative & heritage work closer to home.

I'd suggest you don't clutter the text. This book of mine focuses on 110 British men who sailed to war in 1914 from Shanghai. I did list them all in the bibliography, but I then placed basic details on all of them from my working database online: robertbickers.net/books/gettin...

Great, in which case, here's one of my favourite ST items, an oldie but goldie from 1978

My new favourite historic form: do you exist? Can you prove it? Do you have a form to say so signed by a church minister, magistrate, doctor or banker?

And picnics by the river

Never tire of hopping on these. Next stop Wanchai

Not a view I often get to see