Professor Robert Bickers FBA

The history of 19th and 20th century colonialism and global history, and in particular of the British empire and its relations with China and the history of Shanghai (1843-1950s) and Hong Kong; modern China, photography
Headshot of Professor Robert A. Bickers FBAm (credit Bhagesh Sachania)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Bristol Professor of History

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Professor Alison Light FBA

Modern British cultural and literary history; life-writing, feminism, and the ‘I” in history; Englishness and the idea of class in Britain; writing history across the disciplinary boundaries

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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

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Professor Peter Mandler FBA

Modern British history, especially cultural, intellectual and social; the histories of the humanities and social sciences in comparative perspective

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