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Award lecture from Ersta Diakoni – for Business History Award 2026

How can 175 years of experience provide courage for today's difficult decisions? Welcome to an inspiring evening where Ersta diakoni receives the Business History Award 2026 – and director Stefan Nilsson gives this year's award lecture. In Swedish, open...

Ersta sjukhus, Folkungagatan 125, Stockholm

21 Oct. 2026 18:00 - 19:00

Margarita Feldman

Ersta diakoni receives Business History Award 2026

Ersta diakoni receives the Business History Prize 2026 for actively using its history and heritage in care and welfare, and value-based entrepreneurship, as a compass for today's efforts. The award from the Centre for Business History comes with a prize...

1 Oct. 2026

Susanna Lundell

Företagshistoria #3 2026 now out: Rörstrand, cake, and the Swedish financial market

Read about Rörstrand 300 years, the financial country Sweden, and Greta Donner who, after her husband's death, made the business flourish in the latest issue of Företagshistoria, out on September 30.

24 Sep. 2026

Passed event

Learning Trip: We went to Amsterdam and visited corporate archives.

On September 23–25, employees from the Centre for Business History gathered in Amsterdam for three educational conference days. The purpose of the trip was to gain insights into how other industry players work to preserve, make accessible, and activate...

Amsterdam

23 Sep. 2026 08:00 - 25 Sep. 2026 16:00

Passed event

We went to ICA/SBA 2026 in Brussels

Our CEO Anders Sjöman went to the ICA Section on Business Archives' annual conference, which this year took place in Brussels on September 21-22.

Royal Library of Belgium, Bryssel

21 Sep. 2026 09:00 - 22 Sep. 2026 17:00

Margarita Feldman

Our report on Archive Halland now submitted to the region

In the summer of 2025, we were asked to write a report on the activities of Arkiv Halland, with suggestions for possible development areas. The official administration for Halland, a region in south-western Sweden, now uses the results as a basis for di...

1 Sep. 2026

Margarita Feldman

Anders Houltz in new book about Art Noveau in Sweden

Our research director Anders Houltz participated in 2025 in the seminar "Art Noveau in Sweden – curiosity and desire." Now an anthology, where he contributes a chapter on Jugend in industrial architecture, is being released.

13 Aug. 2026

Anders Houltz

Research project on the Sources of Infrastructure

A new project at our research secretariat is "Sources of Infrastructure: Historical Archives as a Resource for Robust and Sustainable Transport Facilities."

11 Aug. 2026

Alexander Husebye

Martin Kragh in memoriam

Russia expert Martin Kragh, head of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), and also an associate researcher at the Centre for Business History, has passed away, far too early and in the midst of his work a...

26 Jul. 2026

Madeleine Johans

Absolut Vodka’s ad history told at the Spirit Museum

The exhibition "Absolut Absolut. A Spectacular Advertising Story" tells the story of how Absolut Vodka became an international export phenomenon. About 90 different bottles and 130 selected advertisements are on display at the Spirit Museum in Stockholm...

26 Jun. 2026

Anders Sjöman

HMS17: This is how ICA works with its history

"History is nothinig new for ICA," said Eva Burén and Björn Olsson at this year's History Marketing Summit.

25 Jun. 2026

Edward Blom

How we began preserving and presenting ICA history

Since 2000, we have helped food retailer ICA build and fill their historical archive. In this text from 2003, archivist Edward Blom summarizes the work we did during those early years, first creating the archive and then telling ICA's history - on a DVD.

25 Jun. 2026

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We are the archivists who can tell a good story

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News and events

Award lecture from Ersta Diakoni – for Business History Award 2026

Ersta diakoni receives Business History Award 2026

Företagshistoria #3 2026 now out: Rörstrand, cake, and the Swedish financial market

Learning Trip: We went to Amsterdam and visited corporate archives.

We went to ICA/SBA 2026 in Brussels

Our report on Archive Halland now submitted to the region

Anders Houltz in new book about Art Noveau in Sweden

Research project on the Sources of Infrastructure

Martin Kragh in memoriam

Absolut Vodka’s ad history told at the Spirit Museum

HMS17: This is how ICA works with its history

How we began preserving and presenting ICA history

Nyhetsbrev

Näringslivets historia i din inkorg

Knowledge Base

We are the archivists who can tell a good story

Bookstore

Shop our books and Corporate History

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