I am teaching a course October 2000-January 2001 on business history and
wondered if anyone would contemplate a parallel course, so that we can pool
our literature suggestions, link the students together and possibly share
the results. The course design was prompted by the consideration that many
firms' histories on the internet are not really much 'academic' use (see:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/res/bushis/). This led me to consider
using the internet for a seminar course at second year level to interest
our students in business history. As I envisage it the course will have
three parts:
- a consideration of how firms use new media to project corporate identity
in the past
- the gradual compilation of a list of elements one would hope to see in an
on-line history
- the writing of an on-line history (+/- 6000 word excluding supporting
graphs and data using the usual range of secondary sources) of a firm (and
not necessarily one that is already on-line or even one that still exists).
If anyone is interested, please contact me directly at
rtgriffiths@rullet.leidenuniv.nl,
Many thanks,
Richard Griffiths
Professor of Economic and Social History (Leiden University)