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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Patricia Clavin FBA

The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression

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Professor David Blackbourn FBA

The social, political & cultural history of Germany in the long 19th centure; Germans & the natural world; German transnational history since the 16th century.

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Professor Maxine Berg FBA

Global history, especially connections between Europe and Asia; economic history; historiography and intellectual history; early modern history

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