The Centre for Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester invites proposals for contributions to an international conference on 6-7 July 2023 exploring the history of investment in controversial enterprises, particularly environmentally destructive ventures, unfree labour, and corruption. We approach

The 9th World Cliometric Conference will be held Thursday, July 20 to Sunday, July 23 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new economic history research about any geographic region and time period. Proposals to present

Work in Common/Work Toward Commons Our worlds, and our profession, have been reshaped not just by ongoing public health crises, but by racial and gender violence, climate disasters, political stratification, and economic upheavals. In many ways we cannot return to

Putting the Worker Front and Center. The post-pandemic world is witnessing a dramatic shift in workplace power dynamics. Declining globalization (e.g., US-China trade restrictions, Brexit) and a shift towards “re-shoring”, together with the retirement of the baby boom generation, ever-widening

Interdependencies: From Local Microstories to Global Perspectives on the History of Technology The concept of top-down transfer of technology has been challenged by Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray (1990). Instead, they proposed the concept of ‘technological dialogue’ to bring attention

The Relevance of Business History Business history is a thriving field of research. Business historians hold important seats at prestigious universities and business school across the globe. Business history research is probably broader in scope than ever before and has

The theme for EHA 2023 is ‘Love and Toil, Care and Work’. While Adam Smith defined economics in terms of wealth creation and Lionel Robbins in terms of limited means and unlimited ends, Alfred Marshall thought of it as ‘…a

As the institutional home to one of the largest concentrations of business and management historians in the UK, the University of York’s School for Business and Society invites proposals for original research presentations that reconsider the history of York’s private

Enriching Knowledge Societies The archival, records, and data landscape in the 21st century is changing public expectations, changing how we do our work, what constitutes credible evidence, and how we protect our holdings. It is time for our profession to

Oral History As/And Education: Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Beyond The 2023 OHA meeting will provoke many generative discussions about the fundamental roles that oral history can play in educational processes, and the ways critical pedagogy can inform