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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.



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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