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Holly Swenson

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University


business and consumption, media, entertainment, entrepreneurship
Women in Business History

I am a historian of media business in Britain and the global British world. I am interested in the interactions between media entrepreneurs, middlemen, and consumers, and how the business of media shapes public attitudes on a transnational scale. I am also interested in the distinction between "commerce" and "culture" in the creative industries, particularly in the British World.


Prizes and Grants from the BHC
Mira Wilkins Prize, 2026

Recent Conference Participation
2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "What Value Empire? Commercial Cultural Exports Within and Beyond the British Empire"
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "A Funny Problem: The Business of Comedy Television in Australia in the Postimperial Moment"
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "British Tabloid Journalism in Australia, 1925-1945"

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