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Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Proud supervisor moment: Seeing Alex’s fine article out with Urban History! @klalexcheung.bsky.social

Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney’s proposal that Canada might participate in Erasmus and Horizon is one of the more optimistic things I’ve read in the news.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Always love a new collection drop from the HPC project.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

First: We need to stop covering the Canadian wildfires in relation to the US without also highlighting 1) the sustained assault POTUS has waged on environmental protection, and 2) that the climate crisis is borderless. The US is more than culpable in this disaster.

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Trump exploring additional tariffs on Canada for wildfire smoke impacts in US, White House official says – US politics live

New tariffs announced Monday would take effect in 30 days unless Canada removes barriers on US auto, alcohol and dairy products

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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On First View!

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"Hong Kong History Academy" Lecture 7 Urban Development and Land Market in Pre-War Hong Kong Prof Cecilia Chu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Session One: Bubonic Plague 1894 and Urban Renewal Watch at: youtu.be/6JYeUU8WbJs

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"Hong Kong History Academy" Lecture 7 | Session One | Bubonic Plague 1894 and Urban Renewal

YouTube video by Hong Kong History Centre

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is a fantastic visualization of colonial administrative mobilities!

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Saddened today by the passing of Carlo Ginzburg, whose contributions to micro-history resonated so strongly with generations of historians, myself included.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Just back from Honolulu where I spent a fantastic 2 weeks at the state archive researching the Chinese community’s thoughts on US annexation for the next book project.

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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Welcome to Charlottetown! Bienvenue à Charlottetown! #CHASHC2026

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is essentially the bare minimum concession from an administration that has redacted Trans people within the historical narrative. Would be nice to see the NPS grow a spine and honour the past rather than contribute to its erasure.

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Trump administration agrees to keep flying Pride flag at Stonewall monument

US government reverses course on removing LGBTQ+ Pride flag from New York monument after efforts from advocates

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A ceasefire changes nothing. It’s up to Americans to take whatever action necessary to teach their president that genocide is not a bargaining chip.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you're at all interested in spatial history, you're missing out if you haven't checked out my colleague @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social's work with the GeoREACH lab.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

AAS bound this morning and off to a rocky start, as our plane was struck by lightning. Hopefully this is auspicious?

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Darius Wainwright providing historical context for the U.S.'s new confrontational policy towards Iran.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hey America, how’s that Board of Peace working out?

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

We're hosting the CHA this year at UPEI in June. It's going to be a blast. It overlaps with the ACSC and the CCHA. Our wee campus is about the become the historical profession's version of a clown car. I canvased hard locally to have this postcard from a family trip c.2001 on the programme cover.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Please circulate! The UPEI history department will be hiring for a TT position in Canadian and Atlantic history. See the attached post for more information. Come work with us in Charlottetown! The closing date is 13 March 2026. Queries and applications should be directed to Dr. Richard Raiswell.

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

'We understand Hong Kong as a subject providing a wide range of opportunities, as a city and a territory with a distinctive past that has never been more alive.' Excellent write up on the @hongkonghistory.bsky.social in the latest @iias.bsky.social newsletter For more pp.38-40 👉 brnw.ch/21wZEyV

Book stall, pedlar, and shoppers, Hong Kong,
c.1938 (Photo courtesy of Historical Photographs of
China Project, Hutchinson Family Collection, reference
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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Trying to get my students to read as many different news sources about current events as possible, but I have to admit that the @theguardian.com has struck just the most satisfying chord of sassy.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For Trump to presume that this will be remembered as anything other than deeply pathetic within the historical record is a masterclass in delusion.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some Mapping Historical Hong Kong updates: we've been continuing to share data with the HK Spatial History team at HKBU. Good level of fidelity between the two databases, which bodes well for future data sharing. Their extensive roadmap is also going to greatly speed up our work on earlier decades.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

One of my favourite outputs so far from the Hong Kong Spatial History Project. The product of a partnership between Kwong Chi Man's team at HK Baptist University and the archivists at the Hong Kong Public Records Office.

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Hong Kong Historical Address Database

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Having been reading quite a bit on the topic for an article I'm writing on amateurs in the U.S. consular and diplomatic branches... No. It's not a good thing.

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永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...

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Cultural tribute or Asian stereotype? Salem roiled by dispute over city seal. - The Boston Globe

To one side, the seal contains an anachronistic, racial caricature of a 19th-century Asian merchant. To the other, it honors a progressive, cross-cultural commerce that benefited peoples a world apart...

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The studentship I did with the then HKHP was one of the most generous and supportive pathways through a PhD I could have imagined. Can't recommend this opportunity enough.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Legally speaking, if the US signs a treaty with another country, and then, during a conflict in which they aren’t belligerents, steals said treaty from said country. Is said country still required to honour the terms of it?

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Nathan Cardon, Matthew Brown & Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social trace the flow of people/products/ideas concerning the bicycle's sports culture in a transatlantic triangle in the Journal of Sport History muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

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Project MUSE - At the Bicycle Races: Global Sporting Culture and National Belonging at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, 1899–1913

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's interesting that this article almost entirely elides - as was the historical tendency - American traders' explicit and significant hand in the opium trade. If we want to use the Opium War to understand this clash then we need to recognize that Americans were barely neutral and hardly blameless.

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How the 19th-Century Opium War Shapes Xi’s Trade Clash With Trump

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Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our first video of the new series "Hong Kong History Academy" is out! 8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions. Lecture 1: Swire and Hong Kong Prof. Robert Bickers Session one: Why did the British go to China? youtu.be/1gl_ecm9Tz0

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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🧵1/3 Exciting (for me) progress for this Friday's MHHK update. We've begun to experiment with integrating the Carl Smith Index Card collection for HK history. My colleague Eric Chow has been tokenizing the cards and appending GPS coordinates to recorded locations using the Google Maps API.

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Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We are recruiting a Postdoc Research Associate (Oral History) at the Hong Kong History Centre at Bristol! Please feel free to circulate to any friends and colleagues, and/or get in touch if you're interested.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Wasn't totally satisfied with last week's map transformations, so I've been playing around with Thin Plate Spline transformations on the larger maps this week using the same reference points. Instantly better look, with much more accurate coastlines for Hong Kong and Kowloon.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Applications are open for the MITACS Globalink Research Internship, and we're looking for two undergraduate students to participate in the MHHK project next summer at UPEI. Internships are fully funded. Deadline closes 17 September. Project ID is 49248 www.mitacs.ca/our-programs...

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Embark on a Global Research Journey with Globalink Internship

Join Mitacs Globalink Research Internship for Students. Expand your academic horizons with international research experiences.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Spent bits of the last week correcting new maps pulled from the HKPRO. Some truly interesting ones of the development of The Peak and Cheung Chau. I've pulled a series that I'm excited about as well that surveys Kowloon, NT, and Sai Wan village lots (still to be processed).

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Academic hack: if I split my time between PEI in the winter and HK in the summer, I can gain almost another month of forced vacation on account of weather.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This week's MHHK update. Stonecutter's Island, reclamation projects, and the villages to the west of Kowloon (1964). Not sure how accurate the source map was on rural lots and buildings, so will have to check these against the far more detailed large-scale surveys from the following decades.

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Today’s best archival find is Caleb Cushing trying to figure out a suitable Chinese name. He eventually settled on 顧聖, but I think 鼓聲 (drumbeat) should have stuck. Would have looked better on the Treaty of Wangxia and the dozens of red calling cards he had written up.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

publication day. the history of racial violence against immigrants in the early 20th c. remains as important to history as it does to our present academic.oup.com/jah/article/... With many thanks to those who supported me on this journey.

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The Place of Law: Anti-Asian Violence and Community Advocacy in the Early Twentieth Century

The twenty-seven-year-old labor contractor Kanshi Ram was a family man. On March 21, 1910, he was writing to them from a workers' bunkhouse after a long da

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Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is a fantastic article and such an important project! It sets a high bar for how colonial heritage projects and co-creation should be conducted. MBC also rejects extractive research practices through its efforts to bring research back to the community. Congrats on the pub @brebisz.bsky.social!

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