With a listening room all to myself tonight, I played Tom Waits’s “trilogy” in order on vinyl: Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Frank’s Wild Years. It was transcendent. Would welcome suggestions for similar musical deep dives, any genre welcome.

🌾What can today’s policymakers + food innovators learn from Britain’s postwar Agricultural Revolution? Join us for a workshop exploring lessons from farming rapid transformation after 1940 + it's relevance for the future of food. 🔗 buff.ly/Vx6JWBE @shamilto.bsky.social @sabineclarke.bsky.social

The latest case study has just been published in the Urban Institute's History of Philanthropy initiative, supported by Open Philanthropy. It's on the farm animal welfare movement's corporate campaigns, by @shamilto.bsky.social at University of York. www.openphilanthropy.org/research/a-c...

I just bought every vinyl I could find of Ezra Collective. Watch the Glastonbury performance if you can, they are not only amazing musicians but amazing people.

We are delighted to publish this Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise." Contributions from Alexander Field, Brian Cheffins, Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Naomi Lamoureaux & Dan Raff: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really excited to see this compelling Roundtable Review of Richard Langlois' "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" now out online at @entandsoc.bsky.social!

We're loving this re-skeet!

One of my favorite lyrics of Waits/Brennan: Come down off the cross / We could use the wood. Feels more relevant now than ever, which I suppose it always will.

Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats

🍊 Why is orange juice "super weird?" Asks @philedwardsinc.bsky.social, after "stumbling across" the work of business historian, @shamilto.bsky.social, whose work on the "cold capitalism" of frozen concentrated orange juice inspired this YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSQ... #YorkResearch

Only two days now until @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual meeting 2025. Alas, @entandsoc.bsky.social editor @andrewpopp.bsky.social can't make it this year but the journal will be well represented by associate editors @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, @shamilto.bsky.social, Ai Hisano & Andrea Lluch!

One of the best ways of extending life is available to almost all and it’s cheap: cycle commuting.” Rather liking Forbes these days. www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

A little piece with Errol Schweizer (former VP of Whole Foods) on the historical significance of the blocked Kroger-Albertsons merger grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...

Very important and potentially exciting news on the temporary block of the Kroger-Albertsons merger. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...

My family has no quirks. Other than their insistence on having at least two shakers of shichimi togarashi seasoning on the table at all times.

Was surprised to learn Freakonomics has republished the 2019 episode, “How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War,” focused on my book, Supermarket U.S.A: Food and Power in The Cold War Farms Race. You can listen and find the transcript on their website here.

I’m pretty sure I’m not a middle class woman of a certain age, but I am also pretty sure blaming others for your own egregious behavior is not a good PR strategy, nor does it meet basic ethical standards www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History can now be here @entandsoc.bsky.social - please spread the word (and let's hope it does better in attracting followers than I have!)

UK “free” trade discussions raise the specter of chlorine-washed chicken. But how is UK poultry produced? Andrew Godley and I wrote a piece addressing the paradoxical standards that underly modern agrifood systems — we want fair, healthy, sustainable food, but … doi.org/10.1080/0007...