Shane Hamilton
@shamilto.bsky.social
Historian, swimmer, reader. Also a Reader. Agribusiness, strategy, sustainable food systems.
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.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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.
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🌾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
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
August 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🌾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
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
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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.
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A case study on corporate campaigns for farm animal welfare | Open Philanthropy
In recent decades, the farm animal welfare movement has improved conditions for hundreds of millions of animals through corporate campaigns. A new case study, commissioned by Open Philanthropy as part...
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August 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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...
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.
June 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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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:
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Roundtable Review | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Roundtable Review
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May 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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 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...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Roundtable Review | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Roundtable Review
www.cambridge.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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!
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We're loving this re-skeet!
Discover this 2025 journal article on the Swedish consul in Cadiz, Hans Jacob Gahn, who supplied large amounts of copper sheets to the Spanish navy via @businesshistoryc.bsky.social, @cambridgeup.bsky.social, @entandsoc.bsky.social, and @historians.org.
Swedish Copper, Spanish Hulls: Hans Jacob Gahn, a Global Arms Race, and Consuls’ Economic Impact (1780–1784) | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Swedish Copper, Spanish Hulls: Hans Jacob Gahn, a Global Arms Race, and Consuls’ Economic Impact (1780–1784)
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May 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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.
May 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
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Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats
April 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Radical tariff changes put the US into depression in 1819, 1893 & 1929. Hasty executive action did so in 1837. Buckle up #NationofDeadbeats
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🍊 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
Frozen orange juice is actually super weird
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
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March 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🍊 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
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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!
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐁𝐇𝐂 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦
📅 Event Date: March 13–15, 2025
📍 Location: Atlanta, Georgia
🌐 Program: https://buff.ly/4grwtcO
Register ☑️ https://buff.ly/3E4b38c
#BHC2025 #BizHis
📅 Event Date: March 13–15, 2025
📍 Location: Atlanta, Georgia
🌐 Program: https://buff.ly/4grwtcO
Register ☑️ https://buff.ly/3E4b38c
#BHC2025 #BizHis
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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...
18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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December 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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...
Grocery Update #39: The High Cost of Cheap Food. And The Historic Halting Of A Grocery Merger.
Also: An Autumn Apple Smackdown. Because We Love Apples.
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December 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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...
Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger
The Federal Trade Commission notched a victory in its efforts to block the supermarket merger over concerns about harm to shoppers and workers.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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.
December 10, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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.
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - Freakonomics
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War - Freakonomics
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December 10, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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...
Outrage as Gregg Wallace calls accusers ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
BBC faces questions after revelations that it received complaints about MasterChef star over period of 12 years
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December 1, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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...
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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!)
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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...
Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards
This paper uses a historical case study of the emergence of a set of agrifood standards to explore the historical development of strategic paradoxes. The paper demonstrates the value of historical ...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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...