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Business History Conference Events & Dates

Steph

Organized by BHC President Sharon Murphy, the 2024 conference is on the theme of “Doing Business in the Public Interest” and will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 14th – March 16th.  The call for papers, which was shared earlier this year, can be found here on the BHC website: https://thebhc.org/index.php/call-papers-bhc-2024

The deadline for receipt of all paper and session proposals for Providence is November 1, 2023.  

In 2023 the BHC members elected four new trustees, and a new member of the nominating committee.  Grace Ballor, Victoria Barnes, Chinmay Tumbe, and Paula Vedoveli will serve three-year terms as trustees through the 2026 meeting. Christy Chapin was elected to the nominating committee for a two-year term, 2023 to 2025. Members also picked Stephen Mihm as our president-elect. Leaving our board of trustees after three years of noteworthy service (and with many thanks) were Jennifer Black, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Eric Godelier, and Julia Yongue.  Shennette Garrett-Scott also completed her two-year term on the nominating committee.  Dan Wadhwani serves as past president, whilst Andrea Lluch became past president-on-board, having finished her term as past president, president, and president-elect.  Our deep appreciation to all these officers and committee members who continue to volunteer their valuable time serving our scholarly organization.

To continue this cycle of leadership, elections will take place beginning in January 2024. To that end, the BHC Nominating Committee invites your nominations for BHC president-elect, trustees, and member of the nominating committee.  If you are new to the organization and would like to know more about these roles and the structure of the BHC, I encourage you to look at https://thebhc.org/officers-current. Please send all nominations for these positions to committee chair, Dan Wadhwani, at dwadhwani@marshall.usc.edu by Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

Similarly, the BHC Grants and Prizes Committee invites nominations for the BHC Lifetime Achievement Award; the recipient will be announced at the Providence, R.I. meeting’s awards banquet. The criteria for this prestigious award are outlined here: https://thebhc.org/lifetime  Please email the committee chair, Pamela Laird, pamela.laird@ucdenver.edu  with any nominations by Monday, December 4, 2023.

I hope to see many of you at the 2023 mid-year virtual meeting held via Zoom on September 29th.  More information about this meeting, titled “Doing Business History as Public History,” can be found at https://thebhc.org/index.php/2023-mid-year-meeting. 

And finally, The Exchange, the BHC’s weblog, will now be sent as a monthly newsletter. You should have received the first issue on September 1st (please check your Spam folder in case the notification went there). To post announcements in The Exchange, please contact Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (web-editor@thebhc.org). You may use this link to subscribe. 

Gibson Award for the best article in Accounting History announced

Steph

The 2022 Robert W. Gibson Manuscript Award was awarded to Lee Moerman and Sandy van der Laan for their article ‘Accounting for and accounts of death: Past, present and future possibilities’ which was published in volume 27, issue 1 of Accounting History.

The award is presented to the author(s) of the article published during the year “which makes the most significant contribution to the accounting history literature”.  We feel sure that you will join us in congratulating Lee and Sandy for this high-quality contribution to accounting history scholarship. 

The 2022 Robert W. Gibson Manuscript Award is sponsored by the AFAANZ Accounting History Special Interest Group (AHSIG). Their sponsorship support is much appreciated. Our thanks are also expressed to the members of the AHSIG and Accounting History Editorial Board who submitted votes during the voting process. 

We also wish to acknowledge voting also highly commended the paper by Alan Sangster and Fabio Santini ‘Lost in translation: Pacioli’s de computis et scripturis’ in Volume 27, issue 3.  

Carolyn Cordery, Carolyn Fowler and Laura Maran 

Editors, Accounting History 

Business Archives Council News

Steph

The BAC Wadsworth Prize was awarded to Greg Finch this year for his book The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty’s Rise, Crisis and Redemption, published by Tyne Bridge Publishing in 2021. It has been reviewed in Business History by John Wilson. 

Because the BAC’s Annual Research Support Bursary had not been awarded since 2018, three grants were made, to: 

  • Chris Corker, to support the completion of a project on the history of stainless steel
  • Lewis Smith, to access the National Gas Archive and History of Advertising Trust to analyse how nationalised industries fed into issues such as gender, masculinity and public service
  • Emma West, for her project ‘Art in the Pub: Democracy, Community and Gender’, which will explore how brewers made arts and cultural activities available to pubgoers from the 1930s to the 1960s. 

The BAC Cataloguing Grant was awarded was given to the Arts University Bournemouth for work on the Thorp Modelmaking Archive, a unique collection of photographs and documents recording the history of the oldest architectural modelmakers in Britain. The company was founded in 1883. 

Some ABH members may also be unaware of the sad news that Lesley Richmond died on 28 September. Lesley was the former University Archivist, where she managed the Scottish Business Archive, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business History in Scotland, both at the University of Glasgow. She wrote extensively about business archives and produced several guides to business archive collections, as well as undertaking surveys of business archives still in private hands. Many business history researchers will have benefitted from her knowledge and expertise.

Call for Coleman Prize for Best PhD Dissertation

Steph

Association of Business Historians Annual Conference
Newcastle Business School
Northumbria University
30 June-1 July 2023

Named in honour of the British business historian Donald Coleman (1920-1995), this prize is awarded annually by the Association of Business Historians to recognise excellence in new research in Britain. It is open to PhD dissertations in Business History (broadly defined) either having a British subject or completed at a British university. All dissertations completed in the previous year (2022) to that of the Prize are eligible. In keeping with the ABH’s broad understanding of business history, applications are strongly encouraged from candidates in economic history, social history, labour history, intellectual history, cultural history, environmental history, the history of science and technology, the history of medicine, or any other subfield. The value of the prize is £500, sponsored by the Taylor & Francis Group, a scholarly publisher. To be eligible for the Prize, finalists must present their findings in person at the Association’s annual conference, held on 29th June-1st July 2023. A complete list of previous winners may be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/external/ABH/coleman.html

How to Apply for the Coleman Prize

Supervisors are encouraged to nominate recent PhDs, and self-nominations are also strongly welcomed. Please send a PDF including the title of your PhD dissertation and a brief abstract (up to 2 double-spaced pages) to christine.leslie@glasgow.ac.uk by 24 February 2023. Shortlisted candidates will be requested to submit electronic copies of their theses 17 March 2023. Finalists will be notified by 14 April 2023.

Everyone appearing on the programme must register for the meeting. PhD students whose papers are accepted for the meeting may apply for funds to partially defray their travel costs by applying to the Francesca Carnevali Travel Grant for PhD Students. A limited number of scholarships are available from the Francesca Carnevali fund of the ABH to contribute towards the travel, accommodation and registration costs of students doing a PhD in the United Kingdom, who are presenting in the Slaven Workshop, the ABH conference or the Coleman Prize.

Further details can be found at – https://www.gla.ac.uk/external/ABH