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‘These are stories of miraculous escapes, but also of suffering, deceit and betrayal. Buruma tries to answer the question the world asked after the war: how much did Berliners, or Germans in general, know about what was happening to the Jews?’ Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neal Ascherson · Dancing on a Volcano: Wartime BerlinersAs a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ‘...www.lrb.co.uk

Wow.. I was totally unaware of this!

Gilgamesh would be fantastic, if (and only if) it were done properly!

And a few more! Ahead of the Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade tomorrow, we're looking back at a collection of parade scenes, from the mid-1970s to 1990s, as documented by visual artist Janos Buda: https://ow.ly/wyvR50Zs4St

Endnotes... undoubtedly and absolutely.

The Hildebrandslied, the Nibelungenlied, or anything more substantial about Theoderic, would be amazing.

Not if they were Dapper Dan men (and women) !

Like Gandhi said: "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

Judit Klement (Eötvös Loránd University) looks at the industrialization of flour milling in Hungary before WWI, illustrating the role of Budapest as a trade and transport centre for flour in the Austro-Hungarian empire, and presenting a novel typology of family firms based on her studies.

Ying Ding (University of the West of Scotland) and Peiran Su (Audencia Business School) considered how the Dodwell & Co merchant firm survived during long periods of no profitability, noting three strategies that shifted the firm from a strictly China-centred focus to a multi-nodal global network.

The second session was "Family Firms: Bloodlines and Bottom Lines, Family Business in History" chaired by Hartmut Berghoff (Goettingen University)

Carlito Oliveira Junior looks at industrial technology and slavery in the brickworks of 19c Rio de Janeiro. Like Matheus, he challenges the traditional ideas from economic history as a hinderance to industrialization, stating there was "modernization through slavery, not in despite of it."

Matheus Sinder (Universidade Federal Fluminense) presented on slave-based manufacturing in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. He notes that Brazilian manufactured goods were a key instrument in the illegal transatlantic slave trade of the later nineteenth century.

My first two sessions at the Third World Congress of Business History at University of Toronto. The first session was "Business History in a Slave-Holding Society: Rio de Janeiro in the 19th Century" chaired by Christian Roblez-Baez (@stanford.edu)

What happens when an economy exists outside of official records? #AHAPerspectives summer columnist Becca Aponte explores how women street vendors in Dakar today connect to a longer history of economics and colonialism.

Capitalism at Ground Level – AHAA graduate student explores how ordinary Africans transformed Dakar into a cosmopolitan city through informal economies beyond colonial control.www.historians.org

Just published! A new book that "examines the medieval debate on the role of money and credit in the Islamic and Western Christian worlds." #medievalsky

In case you missed it, Bernard Meehan’s lecture on the Cutbercht Gospels (the 2026 Coffin lecture in Palaeography) is now online. #MedievalSky #Manuscripts #palaeography www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ker9...

The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2026YouTube video by SchAdvStudywww.youtube.com