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2023-01-17

Jews, Europe, and the business of culture

A new special issue of the journal Jewish Culture and History focuses on the intersection between Business history and Jewish studies. As pointed out by guest editors Benito Peix Geldart, Maja Hultman and Anders Houltz in the Introduction, the five included articles discuss different expressions of Jewish entrepreneurship and economic activities, and their effects and constraints, in modern Europe.

2022-12-21

Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s, part III: Industrial heritage in the contemporary city

The role of industrial heritage in the contemporary city was in focus when the research network Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s conducted its third and final international workshop, in Gothenburg on 10-12 November 2022.

2022-04-08

Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s, part II: Citizens, communities and cultural heritage organizations

The Nordic-Baltic research network Nordic Industrial Heritage Culture in the 2020s, funded by NOS-HS, organized the second in a series of three workshops in Tampere/Tammerfors, Finland, under the theme: Citizens, societies, and memory organizations, March 24-26 2022.

2021-03-22

Our new Research Advisory Board now in place

A new Research Advisory Board has been put in place, to help us at the Centre for Business History evaluate our activitites and to disseminate knowledge in the academic world.

2021-02-17

Business and coronavirus: Our real-time documenting project continues

Since March 2020, the Centre for Business History has been running the project “Business history and COVID-19” which documents how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the Swedish business. This is a status report for the project, in February 2021, almost a year into it.

2017-08-21

Hi researcher Charlotte Nilsson!

Every year, the Center for Business History hosts about 400 researchers who dive into the archives that we manage. Who are they and what are…