How seventeenth-century Europeans, following Jesuit missionary Martino Martini, saw their continent as historically, environmentally, and culturally intertwined with China.The Tartar Moment focuses on...

Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled Hong Kong’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

Contesting Epistemological Territory: History Education and Decolonisation in Hong Kong - Volume 50 Issue 1

By Amelia Palacios, Molly Blake, Jenny McBurney and Kirsten Delegard; co-founders of Save Our Signs On the corner of Sixth and Market streets in Philadelphia sits a contested site at the heart of t…

This article examines the compatibility of Ujamaa's conceptualization of freedom with the limits of the sovereign state. This is done by examining popular enactments of Ujamaa in Tanzania in the 1960...

Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Volume 54, Issue 3 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Explore the article collection: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Best Paper Award. Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Moves to tighten system likely to be met with resistance from campaigners

Published in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies (Vol. 114, No. 3, 2025)

London has opened the door for thousands more Hongkongers to move to Britain in light of the jailing of media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

Established in 2025, the Master of Arts in Hong Kong Cultural Studies (MAHKCS) is a pioneering postgraduate programme offering an interdisciplinary exploration of Hong Kong’s language, literature, cul...

By Holmes Chan David Webb, a Hong Kong activist investor who campaigned for market transparency and democratic accountability, died on Tuesday aged 60, according to a statement posted on his social media....

The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)

Britain colonised Hong Kong in the 19th century through two treaties, which lasted in perpetuity, and a lease, set to expire in 1997. Much research into Hong Kong’s colonial history relies upon rec…

Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories Chris Buckley, “In China, a Forbidden Question Looms: Who Leads After Xi?” Control over history has been exercised to an even greater …

Matthew Hurst explores the 'politics of forgetting' through the missing files of the Hong Kong colonial archive.

Matthew Hurst explores the 'politics of forgetting' through the missing files of the Hong Kong colonial archive.

Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong as it looks today (image courtesy of the author) Matthew HurstUniversity of York Inside The National Archives (TNA) is a glass box. A reader entering this special area…

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

Author’s great-grandfather on his first trip back to China to marry. Note the poor quality of the microfilm image and especially photograph. “Wong Guey Yem,” Department of Employment and Immi…