History is one of the oldest, largest, and most prestigious disciplines in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. Our distinctive strengths in Western history and Asian history reflect the Department’s unique position in Hong Kong: Asia’s global city. Home to a vibrant research culture, we organize numerous events every year and act as the intellectual hub for historians across the Greater Bay region and beyond. The Department’s prize-winning faculty connect the local to the global and integrate rigorous historical scholarship with methodological innovation. Our research engages diverse fields ranging from public policy and international relations to heritage preservation, media, and cultural studies. We have particular strengths in business and economic history, legal history, women’s and gender history, colonialism and imperialism, and AI and digital history. These thematic clusters connect our research, adding significant depth and coherence to the History program.