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View this in your browser. Greetings from Kathy Cherry Books! Happy August, reader! 📱Free Ebooks! Do you love free books? On August 5th, over 200 children's ebooks will be available for FREE! You’ll find a great selection of picture, chapter, and middle grade books. Best of all, Turtle Tube will be part of this exciting group! Mark your calendars for this one day event. Click here to get the free ebooks on 8/5! 🗽 New York City Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting New York City with my family. We spent the week learning, exploring, and walking around the city. It was such a fun and educational trip. Did you know that New York City is home to 12 National Park Service sites preserving more than 400 years of American history? While we were there, I even earned my Junior Ranger badge at Statue of Liberty National Monument! As someone who loves sharing the magic of our national parks through my books, it was especially inspiring to explore these historic places in person. Did you know that you can get a library card at the New York Public Library for free? Yes, I got one! The New York Public Library is the second largest library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and it's a beautiful place to visit. Have you ever been to New York City? If so, what's your favorite thing to do there? I'd love to hear your favorite place to explore there. Enjoy a few photos below from our trip. 🎉 Book News Drumroll, please... I'm so excited to share that Book Four in the Erutuf National Park series is coming later this fall! Keep scrolling for the official title and stay tuned because I'll be sharing sneak peeks, cover reveal, and more in the coming weeks! 🐢 Turtle Tube Happy 5th birthday to Turtle Tube on August 18th! I can't believe my first book is turning five! Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, reviewed, and supported this book over the years. I really appreciate it! 📚 My Books 🌐 My Website 🛒 Amazon or Bookshop 🏬 Wit and Whimsy Toys, a unique locally owned toy store 📖 Old Haunts Bookshop, a local independent bookstore 📚 Request them at your local bookstore and/or library Thanks so much for reading my book series and for all of your support. I am very grateful! Wishing you an August filled with books, adventures, and some magic. Take care, Kathy Cherry Did you know that... August is a great month for stargazing! It’s the month of the Perseid meteor shower. Dean Joke... How do pandas stay cool in August? They use bear conditioning.        Unsubscribe | Manage your subscription Kathy Cherry, Roseville, CA

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Organizational History Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Newsround: Exclusive discount for HIO readers, BAM Business History SIG programme, BHR turns 100, Academics on Substack Tentative schedule of History Track at BAM, BHR is oooold, and the Elgar HOS Encyclopaedia by Deal & Durepos is out!! Also: ScholarStack Stephanie Decker FAcSS FBAM Aug 3   READ IN APP   Updates this week as we are heading into August: The Elgar Encyclopaedia of HOS is out and it is rich pickings! Even better, as HIO reader, Edward Elgar is giving you a substantial discount on the full price — read below. The provisional programme for the British Academy of Management History Subject Interest Group is out — do note it mentions speakers first, regardless of author order on full paper. (I am actually second author on both papers that I am presenting.) Finally, the granddaddy of business history journals is getting interviewed, or rather one of its editors-in-chief, Walter Friedman, is. If that is not enough summer reading for you, check out the ScholarStack directory. Enjoy! Contents Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies now out! Provisional BAM MBH schedule BHR Centenary ScholarStack by Helen Sword - A directory of scholarly writers on Substack 1. Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series Edited by Nicholous M. Deal, Associate Professor of Management and Gabrielle Durepos, Professor of Organisation Studies, Department of Business and Tourism, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada Publication Date: 2026 ISBN: 978 1 03533 292 2 Extent: 566 pp This comprehensive Encyclopedia provides a lexicon of the field of historical organisation studies, tracing its evolution from an emergent movement to an established community of practice. It brings together key concepts, research methods, philosophies, influential thinkers and major publication outlets that are shaping the growing discipline. I am really pleased to have four co-authored entries and one single-authored entry in the Encyclopaedia: 11 Archival ethnography (Stephanie Decker and Alan McKinlay) 19 Business History [journal] (Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, and Niall G. MacKenzie) 44 Digital archives (Adam Nix, David A. Kirsch, and Stephanie Decker) 64 Handbook of Historical Methods for Management (Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster, and Elena Giovannoni) 74 Historical imagination (Stephanie Decker) For more information, click here. Retails now at £265 for the hardback and £48 for individual e-book copies. Exclusive discount of 35% for HIO readers — use discount code DEAL35 at checkout! 2. Provisional BAM MBH schedule Presenters are mentioned first, with University affiliation, co-authors follow. September 7 - Online Session (Virtual Day) Costly Reversibility as Strategic Commitment: Infrastructure Finance in the British Empire, 1840s–1914 Yasser Alvi, University of Cambridge September 9 - 2:00 PM-3:30 PM Covert diplomatic strategies: multinational enterprises and democratic reversals Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham, Marcelo Bucheli, Thomas DeBerge The legacy of historical foreign occupation on modern corporate philanthropy Hailin Lu, University of Birmingham The English Crown/State and the City of London in British West Africa: Longue durée, heterotopia and diplomatic relations, 1558-1820 Nelarine Cornelius, Queen Mary, University of London, Olusanmi Amujo, Ed Legon, Eric Pezet September 9 - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM Professional Life after a PhD in Business – Management History Anna Spadavecchia, University of Strathclyde; Akram Beniamin, University of Oxford; Elenia Charalambous, Royal Holloway, University of London; Adrian Cozmuta, University of Glasgow and Kyoto; Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews; Ian Jones, University of Sheffield September 10 – 8:30-10:30 AM Making Do and Moving On: Bricolage Dynamics and Strategic Renewal in Times of Prolonged Resource Scarcity Stephanie Decker, University of Birmingham, Guting Shen, Adam Nix The Dark Side of Direct-Selling: Jacob Factor, Stanley Spiro and the ‘White-Collar Bandits’ of Interwar Britain Matthew Hollow, University of York Building Rhetorical Histories: Examining How Strategic Organizational Narratives Are Constructed Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University How Did US Biotech Startups Finance Their Innovation? Three Case Studies from the Dawn of the 1980s New High-Tech Era Viren Mahurkar, London School of Economics September 10 – 1:30-3:00 PM A Microhistory of Entrepreneurial Career Change Gerry Kerr, University of Windsor, Francine Schlosser Building the Best Damn Airplane: Coopetition and the Making of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Wichita, 1925-1945 Shannon Harris, University of St Andrews September 10 – 5:00-6:30 PM Love & the City: placing Romeo and Juliet in between history, arts, organizing and imagination Giulia Achilli, University of Birmingham, Elena Giovannoni, Alessandro Lai, Riccardo Stacchezzini Institutional marginalisation of gold mining policy: The structural exclusion of local enterprises by a mining industry association Albert Acheampong, Anglia Ruskin University, Swetketu Patnaik, James Tuffour, Ayikoru Maureen Negotiating Empire — HSBC, Transaction Costs, and Strategic Partnerships in Securing Railway Concessions in Semi-Colonial China, 1898–1911 Xinyu Li, University of Hull, Qing Lu 3. 100 Years of Business History Review: Q&A with Walter Friedman This year marks the centennial of the Business History Review, a publication that has grown alongside Baker Library’s collections and helped establish business history as a field of study. We sat down with Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative, lecturer, and the journal’s co-editor, to discuss the journal’s origins and its evolution alongside Harvard Business School. https://www.hbs.edu/news/stories/business-history-review-100 4. ScholarStack! 📚 A compendium of Substack newsletters by, for, and about scholarly writers This is a neat resource if you want to read more diverse and interesting writing with a scholarly background. I always think of Substack as a wildly unedited magazine covering everything. That can be fun and interesting, but also overwhelming. If you prefer a more focused approach to finding other academics writing in this space, ScholarStack by Helen Sword is a great place to start. It is in an opt-in directory, so by no means comprehensive, but it is definitely worth browse to find your next newsletter. ⚔️ Helen's Word ScholarStack! 📚 Sharpen your style and find joy in wordcraft with bestselling writing expert Helen Sword… Read more a year ago · 17 likes · 2 comments · Helen Sword Thanks for reading History in Organizations! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share You're currently a free subscriber to History in Organizations. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid   Like Comment Restack   © 2026 Stephanie Decker Unsubscribe