📢 One day to go until the 2026 Business History Conference begins ‼️
++ 🙏 Thank you to the program committee, sponsors and to everyone who submitted panels, papers, roundtables, and workshops, and to all who are traveling to join us.
#BHC2026 #BusinessHistory #CoCreation #BizHis
The #SEC just gave #crypto its clearest win in years, but much of it could still be reversed.
#cryptonews #Bitcoin #BTC #ETH
#stablecoins #altcoins
cryptoslate.com/the-sec-just...
My dept @ Copenhagen Business School) has an open PhD scholarship in business humanities. Do you know a potential candidate? An excellent scholar in history who would thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary business school setting? Please tell them to get in touch
www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
#dictator #ancientbluesky #history #Rome
Most dictionaries define ‘dictator’ as an authoritarian ruler who gains power without election. In the 2nd quarter of the 21st Century, it appears that the bit about being elected might need to be updated.
Anyway, read this, or else! - shorturl.at/ItKZZ
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan
What happened to the notorious pirate Henry Avery has been baffling historians for centuries. Does this book reveal the truth about Avery's fate?
#piratehistory #pirates #history #historybookchat
Can’t join us in Pasadena for our annual meeting?
NACBS will once again host a virtual day of programming the week before our in-person meeting. Submit proposals through the regular CFP (closes April 6)!
NACBS 2026 Virtual Day
November 4
More info: www.nacbs.org/news/nacbs-2...
I am just writing a module for an online history of computing course on #software development over time. Recent developments with #AI are so disruptive to the industry, but offer potential for non-coders to create interactive games for education etc. #bizhis #history www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
This is amazing Stephen, thanks for sharing!
Some posts for #InternationalWomensDay ...
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831; electronic edition by Documenting the American South, 2000)
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/pri…
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social
The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.
#BHC 2026 is coming up! Don't forget to register by March 16 and get that ETA for the UK. Looking forward to talking about the early modern #offshore and seeing everyone in London. #bizhis #econsky #history #18thc
UNC spent $1.2 million, over 6 months, to investigate its School of Civic Life. It won’t release findings. 🤔
@ncaaup.bsky.social
This is really great advice, thank you! Usually the literature on blockchain uses the examples of rai stones on Yap to illustrate the social construction of value, but I wonder if I can use Cornish tokens instead... hmmm...
The outbound trade did pretend destinations like Norway. I think some of this may be covered in Anna Knutsson's research and the literature on illicit tea. I'll be presenting this month on a dataset showing Man's inbound trade for one year. Happy to send references if you have not already looked.
Have you looked at the work by Frances Wilkins and the dissertation of Paul Muskett? Importing into Man, I would argue, it wasn't necessary to obscure origins, because the duties were so low and the proprietors eventually favored the running trade.
As someone beginning work on a book on heterodox entrepreneurship and organizations over time (co-operatives to blockchain), tokenization is one of the most important shifts in financial markets in recent years #bizhis #econsky #crypto #defi
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr… #18thc
Agreed! I have finished another article on how the threat of revenue enforcement created "pressure" for many merchants to at least conform by underdeclaring some goods. This explains why the Customs was able to draw up to 30% of the government's revenue even though coastal smuggling was rife.
Can early modernists contextualize today's talk of tariffs and neomercantilism? My post on ProMarket explores the early modern offshore and #smuggling, asking whether the offshore is a persistent feature of capitalism. #bizhis #History #econsky #18thc www.promarket.org/2025/06/11/a...
Jobs stumble; growth engines sputter. #econsky
Great point! Kent had the reputation of weak enforcement during the period with overwhelmed officers. The dynamics of enforcement during the period are complex. I am just working on an article showing how smuggling became criminalized for plebeians while "white-collar" merchants only a civil fine.
One of the things that surprised me about the database was just how active the Customs was prosecuting people and just how draconian those prosecutions might be (even though the penalty was typically fines, but these could lead to indefinite imprisonment).
Upcoming workshop #BHC2026
📘 BHC 2026 Workshop: Publish or Perish? New Directions in Business History Publishing
🗓 Thursday, March 26, 2026
🕑 2:15–3:30 pm
📍 Imperial College London
www.thebhc.org
#BHC2026 #Bizhis #BusinessHistory #AcademicPublishing #CoCreation
Only a couple weeks left until the Business History Conference in London, UK. Check out the program! thebhc.org/meeting-prog...
#history #econsky #historians #bizhis
‘The early modern postal system had its origins in medieval northern Italy. Political intrigue and commercial exigency fed the need for a reliable service.’
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
Excited about an article on the legal history of Britain or the British Empire published in 2025? Consider nominating the article for the #ASLH Sutherland Prize! Self-nominations also accepted - don't be shy! Due date: June 1. aslh.net/award/suther...