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 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 Tim Harper FBA

Histories of war, revolution and empire in 19th and 20th century Southeast Asia.

Tim Harper

Professor Rebecca Earle FBA

History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing

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