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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 5d

Continue introducing our network of ECS, we have Timothy Cheuk Yin Chan sharing with us with us her reflections on her academic journey and current doctoral project on the development of Hong Kong’s monetary system between 1841 and 1870.

Full text:
tinyurl.com/2nw4b9sc

Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 8d

𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠

Dr Melody Hoi-lam YIU
29 Oct 2025, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)
Research Space, Arts Complex, UoB / Zoom
English

Hybrid event.

Register on:
tktp.as/ELUCZG

Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oct History Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Dr Melody Hoi-lam YIU, Research Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, CUHK, will share on 'Late colonial public cultural architecture in Hong Kong'

Cantonese event.

Register:
tktp.as/EPJYWO

Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Aug 27

𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Closing Date: 24 Sep 2025

The postholder will be a core member of this exciting initiative and will bring oral history experience and skills to the Centre.

Details:
tinyurl.com/HKHCRA

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Aug 1

Welcome to our quarterly round up.

We've hosted a number of academic talks and public-focused events, reflecting our commitment to advancing scholarly debates, and engaging with the broad wider interest in understanding HK’s diverse history.

Full text:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/08/01/n...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Jul 7

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝟔 𝐒𝐞𝐩 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 (𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲)
𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥
𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭: 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 £𝟓 / 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 £𝟐
(𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝)

Please secure your spot by purchasing the ticket on:
tinyurl.com/HKhistday202...

Programme:
tinyurl.com/hkhchistday2...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Jun 30

Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: Graduate Conference 2025

25-26 June 2025

21 papers by PhD students and young scholars from Europe, North America, Asia and Britain and a keynote speech by Gina Tam. What a wonderful feast of ideas and research insights!

Full programme:
tinyurl.com/2sbzdkpu

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · May 19

History Salon
17 May 2025

An insightful and engaging talk at our History Salon this afternoon by Prof John Wong of HKU on the history of Hong Kong’s linked exchange rate system. Thank you John for the wonderful talk!

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · May 9

June Cantonese Hist Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Reynold Tsang, lecturer in the Dept of History at the University of Hong Kong, will share on the topic 'Tracing the First Museums in Hong Kong'.

Register:
tktp.as/EIJRFF

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · May 8

Welcome to our latest quarterly round up.

We’ve had a busy and productive three months, and a ten years now. This January we marked the tenth anniversary of the launch in January 2015 of our Hong Kong History Project, predecessor to the HKHC.

Full text:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/05/07/n...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒖𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂

23 May 2025, 9:30 – 11am (UKT)
On Microsoft Teams

Register:
tinyurl.com/58cwss87

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

May Cantonese Hist Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Prof. John D. Wong, a professor and an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong, will share on the topic 'Why the peg? Then and now.'

Register:
tktp.as/ECTKRJ

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

History Salon
12 April 2025

Prof. Kwong Chi Man (HK Baptist University), our visiting scholar, gave a perceptive and comprehensive review of the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong (1941-1945) and shared his insight on his spatial history project in the Centre. What a great feast of thoughts!

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Apr 8

HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Stella Meng Wang

𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝

8 May 2025, 1 – 2:30pm (UKT)
On Zoom

Register:
tktp.as/EQBIEB

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Mar 13

April Cantonese Hist Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Dr. Kwong Chi Man, associate prof. in the hist dept of Hong Kong Baptist University, will share on the topic 'Three Years and Eight Months': Experiencing the Second World War in Hong Kong.

Register:
tktp.as/ELLZEL

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Mar 12

🔥✨A reminder to all who are interested:
The Abstract and CV Submission Deadline is this Friday, 14 March 2025💥⚡️

Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 3

[Call for Papers] Emerging Paths in Hong Kong History: A Graduate Conference

Important Dates:
Abstract and CV Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025
Acceptance Notification: by 7 April 2025
Conference Date: 25-26 June 2025

More details:
forms.office.com/e/Gt1Nr2y4up

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Mar 4

HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Kwong Chi Man

𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝: 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟓
1 Apr 2025, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)

Register:
tktp.as/ESNOUC

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Mar 3

The presentations from Hong Kong History Day 2024 are now uploaded and you can view them on YouTube.

香港歷史日2024的所有演講已經全部上載，大家可一次過於YouTube重溫。

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 26

March Cantonese Hist Salon at Arts Complex, UoB.

Samuel Dic Sum Lai, PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, will share on the topic 'The Normalized Abnormal: History development of Hong Kong Caacaanteng'.

Register:
tktp.as/EUXOYW

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 25

Continue introducing our network of ECS, we have Hoyee Tse sharing with us with us her reflections on her academic journey and current doctoral project on the visual imagery produced during the Hong Kong social movement between 2019 and 2020.

www.hkhistory.net/2025/02/25/i...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 25

Yesterday we had an interesting panel discussion on Hong Kong and modern global history with guest appearance of David Clayton of York University, and our own Su Lin Lewis, Simon Potter and Robert Bickers this afternoon.

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 20

We will have our family history workshop in May. In-person Cantonese workshop.

香港史研究中心將於5月31日在布里斯托大學舉辦家族史工作坊。廣東話實體活動。

Register／報名:
forms.office.com/e/vJiXubjaNf

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 13

HKHC Speaker's Series, Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, University of Vienna, Austria

Learn to oppress: Intellectual trajectory in constructing the colonies in Hong Kong and Taiwan

7 Mar 2025, 3:30 – 5pm (UKT)
Arts Complex, University of Bristol

Register:
tktp.as/EIWBOG

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to our latest quarterly round up. We have continued to host a fascinating and thought-provoking series of talks, online and in-person, that attract a diverse audience from within and importantly from outside the university.

Check out more on:
www.hkhistory.net/2025/02/12/n...

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 7

'Hong Kong History Day 2024' now on YouTube!

Panel on ‘History education beyond classroom’
Video 1:
Reynold Tsang
The University of Hong Kong
History of Local Museums

History of Local Museums, Reynold Tsang 曾啓泓：本地博物館歷史

YouTube video by Hong Kong History Centre

www.youtube.com

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