Indeed! Very many congratulations to Sarah and Katherine!

We love this article!

At #BHC2026 it's time for the Krooss Prize plenary session, with three fascinating dissertations from Lillian Tsay, Yuanxie Shi, and Cody Patton - @businesshistoryc.bsky.social

#BHC2026 is underway. We are waiting in lively anticipation for Session 1k: Doing Business with Animals: Livestock, Commodities and Capitalist Innovations." with Oscar Broughton, Nathan Norris, Olivia Paschal and Narusa Yamato,, chaired by @shamilto.bsky.social

Here we go! Up early for our flight to London for @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026! See you there.

Contemplating your journey to @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026 in London this weekend? @entandsoc.bsky.social has all your reading needs covered.

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Hot off the press, we're delighted to bring you Ioan Balaban's latest essay, "Corporate Warfare: Sudameris and the Franco–Italian Banking Rivalry in South America, 1945–1960," on the postwar Franco-Italian struggle over Sudameri,, a multinational bank operating across South America. Link below

We're starting to get incredibly excited about the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social 2026 annual meeting, scheduled to begin in London in just under three weeks! Here's the program - Choices, choices choices!
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'“Salt of the Earth:” ABF Freight and Entrepreneurial Processes in American Trucking' by Nathanael L. Mickelson is a wonderful new paper on the restructuring of the American road freight industry through the lens of ArcBest. Get it Open Access here!
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Our readers will likely want to check out this special issue of @jich.bsky.social on Business and Labour in German Colonialism!

Were Scottish bankers born or made? Robert Dawson Scott has the answers in "Professionalism and Presbyterianism: How Edinburgh’s Financial Elite Sustained Itself in the 20th Century," the latest publication from @entandsoc.bsky.social. Open Access, of course.
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It's just a little late, but @entandsoc.bsky.social Vol.26, No.4 is now out, with a pretty breathtaking array of articles and topics, almost exclusively Open Access. There is something here you will want to read, guaranteed!
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Link here:
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Ever wondered how the state and private enterprise come together in driving condom consumption during times of war? Anna Inez Bergman has all the answers in "The War Against Venereal Diseases: Engineering Protective Practices During World War II in Sweden." Fresh out, OA, in @entandsoc.bsky.social

There has recently been a welcome growth in work at the intersection of business history and German colonial. This very interesting essay, from @nkleinoeder.bsky.social, is the most recent addition to this emerging stream of work.

New year, new articles! We are delighted to present Christy Ford Chapin's "Mary G. Roebling, Capitalist Feminism, and Marketing American Women’s Economic Rights," which explores the remarkable career of Mary G. Roebling to propose of form of “capitalist feminism.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sir Alec Reed obituary Employment agency founder and philanthropist who raised hundreds of millions of pounds for charity

A fascinating obituary for employment agency founder and philanthropist Sir Alec Reed. It is interesting to reflect on the differences in business philanthropy across different cultural contexts.
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Just putting to bed the proofs for @entandsoc.bsky.social Vol. 26, No. 4 and it's going to be something else, packed with a whole bunch of the best stuff.

Finally, Guillermo Antuña takes us to Northern Spain to unpack "Unintended Cluster Emergence: Revisiting Francoist Industrial Policy in the Steelmaking Pole of Asturias (Spain), 1939–1985" around the Spanish steelmaking pole of Asturias.
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Next, Sean Irving leads us on a journey "From New Left to Social Enterprise: A Conceptual History of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement, 1971–2001," exploring how how the British worker co-operative movement came to assume a neoliberal ideological character.
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Wow! We have a whole bunch of the good stuff to bring you today. First up, Daniel T. Gresham's "Feedlot Imprimatur: Public-Private Cooperation in the Advent of Government Beef Grading" explores how government beef grading shaped markets for meat in America.
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Not report, repost.

Really delighted to see this report Mattie! (Apologies, we'd have tagged you if we'd known you were here).

A great theme for a call!

And last but very much not least, we bring you the third and final of this year's Krooss Prize summaries, Mattie Webb's "Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, US Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity." OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Abu Zafar obituary Other lives: Innovative entrepreneur who set up the first Asian-owned printing press in Bradford

On a rather different scale, we particularly enjoyed this Guardian "Other Lives" obituary for entrepreneur Abu Zafar, who led a fascinating and inventive life, from Kolkata to Bradford, via Dhaka and Kyoto: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gopichand Hinduja obituary Billionaire businessman who as head of his family’s vast conglomerate topped the UK rich lists

The death has been announced of Gopichand Hinduja, a titan of Indo-British business and, at the time of his death, the richest man in Britain. Guardian obituary here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thanks to @entandsoc.bsky.social for publishing a summary of my dissertation, which earlier this year won the Krooss Prize from the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it and keep an eye out for the book (although it might take a while).

@ppryluka.bsky.social - so sorry we'd forgotten you're on here or we'd have tagged you.