On 16 January 2025 at 1:00 pm
On 16 January 2025 at 4:15 pm
On 18 January 2025 at 2:30 pm
History in the Public Sector
Date: 16 Jan 2025
Time: 4:15 – 5:15pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
In-person only event. To attend, please register on Ticketpass.
On 16 January (Thursday) at 4:15-5:15, the Hong Kong History Centre will host a panel discussion on what history, and historians, can do in the public sector. Centre Research Director Professor Ray Yep, a public intellectual who has served on numerous government bodies in Hong Kong including the Central Policy Unit and civil society organisations, will be joined by two Bristol History PhD graduates, Dr. Chris Wemyss, now of Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, and Dr. Gemma O'Neill, of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. This panel will be chaired by Professor Josie McLellan, Co-Director of Research, Department of History. In the session, the panelists will discuss how their research background informs their work in and/or with the government, and what might history, and historians, do for policymaking and more widely the public sector.
Decolonising Colonial History: Why Hong Kong History Matters
Date: 16 Jan 2025
Time: 1 – 2pm (UKT)
Venue: LT3, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
*This event is aimed at undergraduates
Why is it important that we study the history of British colonialism? How might we decolonise this history, and what does this actually entail? At this History Showcase session, we consider these important questions, by drawing on the research and teaching experience of three historians of Hong Kong, a British colony between 1841 and 1997. We will be joined by Professor John Carroll of the University of Hong Kong, and Bristol's very own Professor Robert Bickers and Dr. Vivian Kong.
【History Salon】 “The Metropolis of the East”: Tourism and Postwar Recovery in Hong Kong 
Date: 18 Jan 2025
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space (1.H020), Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English
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Additional Information:
- In-person only.
- Please register on Ticketpass. A small amount of Hong Kong-style refreshments will be provided.
https://tktp.as/ENQXPM
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In the wake of World War II, nations and colonies struggled to rebuild their economies – including by promoting tourism. Apart from generating much-needed revenue, government and business planners hoped this “invisible export” would help build a new era of peace and understanding. This talk discusses how Hong Kong became a major travel destination, with tourism eventually becoming one of its most important industries and its largest source of foreign-exchange revenue. At least until the mid-1950s, however, this owed less to local efforts and more to changes beyond Hong Kong’s initiative or control: the revival of passenger shipping and the global expansion of civil aviation, the reopening of Japan to tourism under the Allied occupation, and the Korean War.
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Prof. John Carroll is Principal Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the world’s first MA programme in Hong Kong history. He is the author of several books on Hong Kong history. This talk draws on his current research project on Hong Kong tourism.
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