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The Business History Conference is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. https://thebhc.org/
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#BHC2026 in London, with a focus on "Co-Creation" thebhc.org/bhc-2026-cal...

Journal 👉 @entandsoc.bsky.social lnkd.in/gMqsqYs5

#BizHis #BHC #Historians
🌍📜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 - 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🏙️✨

🗓️ July 27–31, 2026
🚨 Call for Papers OPEN THROUGH DECEMBER 1

www.worldcbh.org/CfP2026
Call for Papers Toronto 2026
www.worldcbh.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Important Call for Submissions – BHC 2026 Awards
thebhc.org/prizes

🏆 The Hagley Prize in Business History

🏆 The Ralph Gomory Prize

#bizhis #bookawards #BHC2026
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Important Call for Submissions – Business History Conference 2026 Awards
thebhc.org/prizes

The Herman E. Krooss Prize honors the best Ph.D. dissertation in business history completed within the past three years. Proposals are due November 14.

#bizhis #phd #doctoral #BHC2026
Prizes | The Business History Conference
For scholars who have contributed in major ways to the field of business history
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November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The November 2025 issue of The Exchange is now out!

#BHC #BHC2026 #bizhis

mailchi.mp/thebhc/the-e...
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
👉 #banking #industry #intelligence

The Firm, the Bank, and the Family ... by Rikard Westerberg doi.org/10.1017/eso....

... on how the Wallenberg family became a key partner in the #Sweden 's Cold War intelligence ecosystem.

#BizHistory #ColdWar #Defence @universitypress.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If you missed it, check out this interview w/ Professor Albert Churella about the rise and fall (mostly fall) of what was once one of the largest U.S. corporations 📽️ youtube.com/live/iigS9lK... #PennsylvaniaRailroad

#BizHis #Trains #BusinessHistory #AmericanHistory
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Call for Applications: 2026 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History
📍 London, UK, on March 26, 2026
Application deadline ‼️ December 8, 2025 thebhc.org/doctoral-col...

#bizhis @businesshistory.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @gnvbusinesshistory.bsky.social @repec-nep-his.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The next deadline for Research and Dissertation Fellowships is coming up on 📆 November 1!

Find all the details here thebhc.org/henry-kaufma...

Endowed by and named in honor of renowned economist Dr. Henry Kaufman

#bizhis #fellowships #finhis
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
‼️ Announcing the BHC 2026 II Book Proposal Workshop 💯

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
thebhc.org/emerging-sch...
Notifications by late January 2026.

#Bizhis #BusinessHistory #EmergingScholars #BookProposal #BHC2026 #AcademicPublishing #HistoryOfCapitalism
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
BHC2026 UPCOMING DEADLINE -> Submit proposals by October 17th 2025
thebhc.org/2026-bhc-mee...
March 26th - 28th, 2026 "Co-Creation"

@entandsoc.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @gnvbusinesshistory.bsky.social @businesshistory.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
LIVE NOW!
With Al Churella, discussing the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Corporation — once the largest in the world.
www.youtube.com/live/iigS9lK...

@simplyrailways.bsky.social @rwu-org.bsky.social @railmag.bsky.social @penncapital-star.com
AL CHURELLA BOOK SERIES TALK
YouTube video by Business History Conference
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
TOMORROW – live on YouTube!

Join us for a conversation with Al Churella, author of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 3: The Long Decline, 1933–1968. Hosted by Mark Rose and Marc Levinson.

🗓 October 10, 2025 – 9 a.m. ET
📍 On YouTube www.youtube.com/@businesshis...

#Bizhis #RailHistory
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📄 👉 doi.org/10.1017/eso....

In this 🆕 @entandsoc.bsky.social article, Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Masatoshi Fujiwara explore how Japan transformed the U.S.-developed #AMHTS into an accessible model for middle-class preventive care.

#BusinessHistory #Bizhis #MedicalHistory
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
DEADLINE APPROACHING

The Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program from the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social

Research and Dissertation fellowships
application deadline NOVEMBER 1st

Endowed by renowned economist Henry "Dr. Doom" Kaufman

Info: thebhc.org/henry-kaufma...
October 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The October 2025 issue of The Exchange is now out!

#BHC #BHC2026 #bizhis
mailchi.mp/thebhc/the-e...
October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Want to know how historians have studied big international companies and their role in the Global South?
doi.org/10.1017/eso....
By Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen and Søren Ivarsson

#GlobalSouth #BizHis #BusinessHistory #MultinationalCorporations

@universitypress.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🌍📜 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 - 𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🏙️✨
Sponsored and hosted by the Business History Society of Japan, Canadian Business History Association, Business History Conference, and European Business History Association www.worldcbh.org/CfP2026

🗓️ July 27–31, 2026 🚨 CFP is NOW OPEN! ✈️
Call for Papers Toronto 2026
3rd World Congress of Business History, Toronto, Canada 29th Congress of the European Business History Association
www.worldcbh.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Call for Applications: 2026 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History
📍 London, UK, on March 26, 2026
Application deadline ‼️ December 8, 2025 thebhc.org/doctoral-col...

#bizhis @businesshistory.bsky.social @hagleycenter.bsky.social @gnvbusinesshistory.bsky.social @repec-nep-his.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅?

A century of evidence (96 🇳🇱 corporations that ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996) from the Netherlands gives us answers.

#bizhis #corporations #dutchcorporations #quantitativemethods
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Meet the 2026 BHC Program Committee
They’ll be shaping the Business History Conference program around the theme: “Co‑Creation”
#BHC2026 thebhc.org/2026-bhc-mee...
London, March 26–28, 2026 🇬🇧
October 17, 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑
Spain, 1939–1975

A new article by Joaquim Cuevas and Maria A. Pons shows how reforms strengthened oversight but failed to prevent systemic vulnerabilities, contributing to the 1977–1982 banking crisis.
September 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My dissertation project, “The Securities State: Washington, Wall Street and the Financialization of America, 1979-1992” asks how and why Wall Street become the central force in intermediating credit, savings, investment, and liquidity throughout the entire US economy
September 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Congratulations @freedaaron.bsky.social !!

Please 🙌 tell us and the world more about your research #bizhis #econhis #ushistory 🧵👇
Thrilled to announce that I've been awarded the 2025 John E. Rovensky Fellowship in US Business and Economic History from the University of Illinois Foundation and @businesshistoryc.bsky.social!
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Need expert insight on business, labor, finance, or technology history?
The #bhc Expertise Database can connect you with #bizhis #econhis #economy researchers 👇 📶

#BusinessHistory #Expertise @slate.com @us.theconversation.com @financewatch.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM