Andrew Popp
@andrewpopp.bsky.social
Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
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The death has been announced of Gopichand Hinduja, a titan of Indo-British business and, at the time of his death, the richest man in Britain. Guardian obituary here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Gopichand Hinduja obituary
Billionaire businessman who as head of his family’s vast conglomerate topped the UK rich lists
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The death has been announced of Gopichand Hinduja, a titan of Indo-British business and, at the time of his death, the richest man in Britain. Guardian obituary here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A vital thread.
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A vital thread.
Heavily darned child's stocking recovered during recent excavation of the historic rubbish tip on which much of Copenhagen's Amalienborg neighborhood is built. Up close & personal, with fascinating conversations with the responsible archaeologists at the city's Archaeological Workshop this afternoon
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Heavily darned child's stocking recovered during recent excavation of the historic rubbish tip on which much of Copenhagen's Amalienborg neighborhood is built. Up close & personal, with fascinating conversations with the responsible archaeologists at the city's Archaeological Workshop this afternoon
Congratulations to Pablo Pryluka, 2025 winner of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history. Pablo's dissertation summary now published Open Access in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Check it out for the best in new business history research
The next of this year's Krooss Prize summaries is now available for your perusal & pleasure. Indeed, Pablo Pryluka was the 2025 winner for his dissertation "Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America." Congratulations Pablo! OA here:
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Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Congratulations to Pablo Pryluka, 2025 winner of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history. Pablo's dissertation summary now published Open Access in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Check it out for the best in new business history research
Another one falls victim to the lure of #EntrepreneurialismAsDiscourse - and this one has it bad. Does this author seriously believe the fact the US has a history of self-employment and freelancing is explained by "the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit"?
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Another one falls victim to the lure of #EntrepreneurialismAsDiscourse - and this one has it bad. Does this author seriously believe the fact the US has a history of self-employment and freelancing is explained by "the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit"?
I dreamed about killing you again last night
And it felt alright to me
Dying on the banks of Embarcadero skies
I sat and watched you bleed
Buried you alive in a fireworks display
Raining down on me
Your cold, hot blood ran away from me
To the sea
And it felt alright to me
Dying on the banks of Embarcadero skies
I sat and watched you bleed
Buried you alive in a fireworks display
Raining down on me
Your cold, hot blood ran away from me
To the sea
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I dreamed about killing you again last night
And it felt alright to me
Dying on the banks of Embarcadero skies
I sat and watched you bleed
Buried you alive in a fireworks display
Raining down on me
Your cold, hot blood ran away from me
To the sea
And it felt alright to me
Dying on the banks of Embarcadero skies
I sat and watched you bleed
Buried you alive in a fireworks display
Raining down on me
Your cold, hot blood ran away from me
To the sea
The certain; the probable; the possible: the three basic conditions with which the historian works. "Exquisite Corpse" (automatic drawing) by Alexander Noll, André Breton, & Max Morise.
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The certain; the probable; the possible: the three basic conditions with which the historian works. "Exquisite Corpse" (automatic drawing) by Alexander Noll, André Breton, & Max Morise.
A delightful pig sleeping happily in the background of “The Dream” by Brazilian surrealist Cícero Dias.
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A delightful pig sleeping happily in the background of “The Dream” by Brazilian surrealist Cícero Dias.
Read Saidiya Hartman for the first time this morning (mea culpa) and feel taken apart as a historian. She writes as if failure is inevitable in every attempt to write history. Perhaps. But it is still magnificent.
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Read Saidiya Hartman for the first time this morning (mea culpa) and feel taken apart as a historian. She writes as if failure is inevitable in every attempt to write history. Perhaps. But it is still magnificent.
Come work in Denmark.
Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
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November 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Come work in Denmark.
Where else to catch the best of new scholarship in business history?
We are delighted to bring you the first of this year's three Krooss Prize summaries, with Joshua Lappen's Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles." Available now, Open Access.
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Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Where else to catch the best of new scholarship in business history?
As this is still getting likes I will take the opportunity to say that Burgos is the worst, most disappointing cathedral I've ever visited. #cathedrals
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
As this is still getting likes I will take the opportunity to say that Burgos is the worst, most disappointing cathedral I've ever visited. #cathedrals
Voting together as a family for the first time.
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Voting together as a family for the first time.
All that's freshest in business history research can be found right here!
Wait up! Not one, but two new articles. First up, Andrew Johnston reveals "The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954", a significant reappraisal of financialization in Britain. Open Access, here with 1 click:
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The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
The Dawn of Shareholder Value: The Normalization of the Hostile Takeover in the UK 1952–1954
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
All that's freshest in business history research can be found right here!
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November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Can't quite believe just how little flak Denmark is catching right now for being the UK's poster boy.
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Can't quite believe just how little flak Denmark is catching right now for being the UK's poster boy.
This is true, and will steadily become a reality for more and more of us, no matter how comfortable our lives feel right now.
We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is true, and will steadily become a reality for more and more of us, no matter how comfortable our lives feel right now.
Searching for the romance of London in Acton Town.
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Searching for the romance of London in Acton Town.
Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come for the cover, stay for the vicious blurb.
This is just awful, awful news.
We are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Shakila Jacob. Prof. Jacob was a pioneer in international business history, bringing vital and much needed postcolonial perspectives to the discipline. She will be very sorely missed by many.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is just awful, awful news.
I have swapped stoney verticalities for liquid horizontals.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I have swapped stoney verticalities for liquid horizontals.
Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled
This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.
Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism
Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees
This is truly, wilfully abhorrent.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees