Newsround: NARTI workshop - WCBH Toronto 2026 - Desjardin Historical Museum - Business History Summer School - Economic History Meeting - ASML
Happy Monday everyone! It’s another bumper week, with an extended deadline for the Tübingen-Glasgow summer school in business history, and excellent business historical piece published on ASML, programme and registration details for the World Congress of Business History in Toronto, Canada, this year, and the Canadian Business History Association recommends the Desjardin Group’s historical museum.
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NARTI Writing Retreat, online
World Congress of Business History, Toronto, programme
Group Desjardins Historical Museum, Canada
Tübingen-Glasgow Summer School extended deadline
Second City History and Economics Meeting (SCHEMe)
Business history of ASML
1. NARTI Online Training & Development
Write Here, Write Now Live Coaching Writing Retreat
With Will Medd
Mornings 13-16 July 2025 (09.30-13.00– UK time)
Online via Zoom
Creating a productive writing habit is a challenge for many writers, often leading to frustration and a feeling of never having done enough. That can develop into anxiety and a sense that ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I shouldn’t be here’. It’s easy to find yourself putting off writing until it starts to feel too late. While some people respond well to the pressure to write to a high standard, for others it can be the main hindrance to their writing.
Experience dedicated, focused and productive writing time
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Gain confidence, motivation and skills to manage your mood
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Develop greater awareness of what gets in the way and how to overcome it
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Craft strategies for consistent and productive writing practice in balance with your life
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Learn from the collective wisdom of the group
WriteHere, RightNow offers a unique format, for writers at any stage of their process and career, which combines the space of a writing retreat with the provocation of live coaching. The combination of retreat and live coaching means that, while working on a current piece of writing, participants also engage in a series of coaching-based inquiries at three levels:
Establishing an effective writing practice while getting writing done. WriteHere, RightNow offers a structure designed to enable you to write, to approach editing in an effective way, and to hold up a mirror to your own habits and strategies in order to establish an intentional approach that works for you.
Sustaining motivation and overcoming barriers such as self-doubt and ‘the imposter’. In response to the challenges felt by many participants, our group coaching engages with issues around core motivation, overcoming fear and insecurity, finding inherent confidence, and establishing effective intentions and goals.
Who are you as a writer? Letting go of assumptions of who you are trying to be or thinking you should be. We work with what matters to you, with your strengths, with your vision of your writing’s purpose.
Find out more about the retreat and Will Medd www.willmedd.com
There are limited places available for this retreat. If you would like to join us and can commit to participating in all sessions, please complete the registration form using the link at the top of this page.
Many thanks, Jo
Jo Garrick
Researcher Training and Development Manager
2. World Congress of Business History - Registration Open!
The registration for the World Congress of Business History is open! Taking place at the University of Toronto from July 27-31, 2026, the Congress will bring together business historians from around the world and is an opportunity to learn about cutting edge research.
If you have questions about the Congress you can reach out to us at ed@cbha.ca
CLICK HERE FOR PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
3. Canadian Business History Museum
A Fresh Take on the History of the Desjardins Group
By: Pierre-Olivier Maheux, Historian at the Desjardins Group and CBHA Member
Are you familiar with Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins? In 1900, they founded
Canada’s first credit union—or caisse populaire, as it was known at the time.
Over the years, it’s grown into Desjardins Group, the largest cooperative financial group in Canada and a worldwide leader.
This remarkable business history story began in their home in Lévis, just across the river from Quebec City. Today, Maison Alphonse-Desjardins is a museum that’s open to the public free of charge. Few financial institutions in Canada offer such a rich showcase of their history. The house has been fully restored and takes visitors back to 1906, offering a window into the Desjardins household and the place where the cooperative’s first members conducted their transactions. A new permanent exhibition, From Them to You. Alphonse and Dorimène: A Collective Journey, has just opened. It presents a modern, interactive interpretation of the birth of Desjardins Group, designed with families in mind.
It’s a must for anyone who’s interested in business history. If you’re visiting the
Quebec City area, come say hi! To learn more about the museum, click here.
Un regard neuf sur l’histoire du Mouvement Desjardins
Par: Pierre-Olivier Maheux, historien au Mouvement Desjardins et membre de l’ACHA
Connaissez-vous Alphonse et Dorimène Desjardins? Ils sont à l’origine de la fondation de la première caisse populaire au Canada en 1900. Au fil des ans, elle est devenue le Mouvement Desjardins, le plus important groupe financier coopératif au Canada et parmi les premiers au monde.
Cette incroyable histoire a commencé dans leur résidence de Lévis, non loin de Québec. Transformée en musée, la Maison Alphonse Desjardins est accessible gratuitement. Rares sont les institutions financières au Canada qui offrent au public une telle mise en valeur de leur histoire. La reconstitution de la maison comme elle était en 1906 permet de découvrir à la fois le lieu où les membres réalisaient leurs transactions financières et le cadre de la vie familiale des Desjardins. Une toute nouvelle exposition permanente, intitulée D’eux à nous, Alphonse et Dorimène : une aventure collective, vient d’être inaugurée. Elle propose une lecture actuelle et accessible de la naissance du Mouvement Desjardins dans un environnement interactif conçu pour les familles.
La visite est un incontournable pour ceux et celles que l’histoire d’entreprise passionne. Vous êtes de passage dans la grande région de Québec? Venez nous voir! Pour en savoir plus sur le musée, cliquez ici.
4. Tübingen-Glasgow Summer School extended deadline
The deadline for the summer school has been extended to 15 June (not 5 June). More information here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/geschichtswissenschaft/seminareinstitute/neuere-geschichte/personen/arbeitsbereich-neuere-regionalgeschichte/summer-school/
5. Second City History and Economics Meeting (SCHEMe)
Volume 3, MMXXVI
Venue: Birmingham Business School, University House – Workshop Room: TBC
Kindly supported by an Economic History Society “Events and Activities” grant.
Thursday 25 June
11:00-11:30: Coffee and Welcome
11:30-12:30: Session One: Politics
Mona Morgan-Collins, KCL
Women and the Adoption of Proportional Representation in Norway
Yi Min, Birmingham
Perpetuation of Political Loyalty: Evidence from the Chinese Communist Movement
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:00: Session Two: American Capitalism
Max Posch, Exeter
Doux Commerce: Markets, Culture, and Cooperation in 1850-1920 U.S.
Ruveyda Nur Gozen, Cardiff
Business Dynamism and Innovation: Evidence from a Novel 19th Century Microdata
15:00-15:30: Coffee
15:30-16:30: Session Three: Labour
Yuzuru Kumon, Manchester
Gendered Labor, Marriage, and Structural Transformation: Industrializing Japan
Meredith Paker, Oxford
Structural Change, Labor Reallocation, and Mismatch During the Great Depression in Britain
19:00: Dinner (by invitation)
Friday 26 June
10:00-11:00: Session Four: Public Policy
Emily Chung, Cambridge
Slum Clearances and Urban Dislocation in Manchester, 1860-1880
Eric Strobl, Bern
The Jamaica Life Expectancy Paradox: The Role of the Hookworm Campaign
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-12:30: Keynote
Alex Trew, Glasgow
The Death and Life of Great British Cities
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:00: Session Five: Legacies
Lydia Assouad, LSE
The Arab Slave Trade and the Diffusion of Islam in Africa
Sebastian Ellingsen, Bristol
Communities of Commerce: The Legacy of Chinese Immigration on Java
