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 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 Jeremy Adelman FBA

Born in Canada, Jeremy Adelman received university degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he completed his DPhil in 1989. A recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, Adelman has authored or edited fifteen books.

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Professor Heonik Kwon FBA

The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology

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