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4th September 2010

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For Students of Corporate History: Business and industry history society pages

• Association of Business Historians

• Billionaires The world's billionaires : facts, lists (database), Interviews - as compiled by Forbes.

• British Library Histories of British Companies List of over 500 histories of individual British companies held by the British Library

• Business History Net Provides a variety of links including company history sites (by sector), museums, business historians (including publishers) and other useful sources.

• Business History Society of Japan

• Cardiff Univerity - Accounting and Business History Unit

• European Business History Association

• Family Business magazine In addition to articles in the magazine on the challenges of running a business, the website has compiled lists on the oldest and largest family businesses in the U.S. and wolrdwide.

• Leiden University Business History Site Liks to companies' own history pages (often found within the "about us" section), along with bibliographies and academic papers.

• London School of Economics - Business History Unit

• Reading University - Centre for International Business History

• The Business Archives Council Promotes the preservation of business records and provides practical advice.

From its website ..."The objects of the Council are to promote the preservation of business records of historical importance, to supply advice and information on the administration and management of both archives and modern records, and to encourage interest in the history of business in Britain. The Council’s publishing programme includes Business Archives, which is published half yearly, and a Newsletter which appears quarterly. Other Council publications include Managing Business Archives and A Guide to Tracing the History of a Business. In recent years surveys of the archives of brewing, banking and shipbuilding have been published, as has a survey of the archives of 1,000 of the oldest registered companies in Britain."

• University of Glasgow - Centre for Business History in Scotland

For Companies - find publishers

• Book Production Consultants BPC are leading experts in this area of publishing. Clients range from City of London solicitors to banks, insurance giants to shipping firms, manufacturers to airlines, schools to hospitals and architects to builders.
The publishers ask - What good is a history?
"When it comes to celebrating an anniversary or increasing promotion, every company has a rich and unique tool to hand – its history. This valuable source of material can provide facts, anecdotes, pictures and all manner of details to enhance the company image and provide a lively basis for talks, advertising, exhibitions and client information."

• Famous Hotels in the World Speciliast publishers for famous and long established hotels

• Focus, Australia

• Great Plains, Canada

• Heritage Publishers Publishers of institutional and family histories. Their pitch : Preserve your history, Create Pride, Demonstrate Stability and Longevity, Share your Growth and Success, attract New Clients.

• Historion Netherlands-based specialist in corporate biographies, jubilee editions and special projects.

• Memory Catchers

• Nigel Watson, UK Publisher Has authored a large number of British company histories, many of which can be found in Hindsight Books' on-line catalogue.

• The History Factory Specializes in corporate history books, company anniversaries, and other uses of corporate history.

• Write Stuff

For the literary investor -- Business News, Company Analysis and Investment Newsletters

• Berkshire Hathaway -- Buffett's company website -- access to annual reports.

• Dr. Faber's GloomBoomDoom.com Fund manager, economist and writer, Dr. Faber is a contrarian with a deep interest in history -- especially of markets, cities and civilisations. He has been based in the Far East for many years and has extensive experience of emerging markets worldwide. In addition to his books he publishes a lively newsletter for his clients.

• hemscott.com -- company analysis, UK

• Journal - Accounting, Business & Financial History "Accounting, Business & Financial History is a major journal which covers the areas of accounting history, business history and financial history. As well as providing a valuable international forum for investigating these areas, it aims to explore:

* The inter-relationship between accounting practices, financial markets and economic development.
* The influence of accounting on business decision-making.
* The environmental and social influences on the business and financial world.

The special features of Accounting, Business and Financial History include:

* An on-going record and analysis of past developments in business and finance history.
explanations for present structures and practices.
* A platform for solving current problems and predicting future developments."

• Journal - Business History "Business History is an international journal concerned with the long-run evolution and contemporary operation of business systems and enterprises. Its primary purpose is to make available the findings of advanced research, empirical and conceptual, into matters of global significance, such as corporate organization and growth, multinational enterprise, business efficiency, entrepreneurship, technological change, finance, marketing, human resource management, professionalization and business culture. The journal has won a reputation for academic excellence and has a wide readership amongst management specialists, economists and other social scientists and economic, social, labour and business historians."

• Journal - Business History Review (Harvard) "Business History Review is a quarterly publication of original research by historians, economists, sociologists, and scholars or business administration. BHR's ongoing mission, from its 1926 inception as the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, is to encourage and aid the study of the evolution of business in all periods and all countries."

• Journal - Economic History Review "The Economic History Review is published quarterly and each volume contains over 800 pages. It is an invaluable source of information and is available free to members of the Economic History Society. Publishing reviews of books, periodicals and information technology, The Review will keep anyone interested in economic and social history abreast of current developments in the subject. It aims at broad coverage of themes of economic and social change, including the intellectual, political and cultural implications of these changes. Many issues contain an essay under the heading Surveys and Speculations which discusses a particular problem in economic and social history in an adventurous way. The extensive book review section in each issue provides a guide to the latest literature on economic and social history in the British Isles and throughout the rest of the world. Each volume also contains Essays in Bibliography and Criticism which are designed to bring readers up to date with the latest writings on a particular country and topical themes in economic and social history."

• Journal - Enterprise & Society "Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context."

• Journal - The Journal of European Economic History

• More Information about the South Sea Bubble (Wikipedia)

• Outstanding Investors Digest -- Value investors blue chip letter, often features Buffet and Munger.

For Book Lovers - Accessories

• Bristol Bound Well established book-binding firm based in Bristol, U.K. Provide services to both corporate customers and individuals looking to preserve books of special interest for themselves and their familes, or prepare a book as a gift.

For Book Lovers - Catalogues

• Folio Society -- premier UK reprints

• Thoemmes -- specialist dealer in Philosophy titles and books related to the history of ideas.