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• Celtic FC take on the Irish Free State in 1924

  By chris holme on September 14, 2011 • ( 7 )

  

  Now is maybe a good time to dig in the digital history archive…… given the recent abysmal performances of Scottish football clubs in Europe. Click on this photo to view this silent gem from British Pathe. It is probably the… Read More ›

• Probably the best company history website in the world?

  By chris holme on September 9, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Brewer Carlsberg is currently celebrating 200 years since the birth of its founder JC Jacobsen. But the group website doesn’t really need an excuse. It is already a remarkable digital history treasure trove which is regularly mined by broadcast researchers for… Read More ›

• Debunking Henry Ford

  By chris holme on August 22, 2011 • ( 3 )

  “History is Bunk” said Henry Ford. Or did he? Was this a considered statement of principle from the most successful industrialist of the 20th century? If so, it doesn’t bode well for those of us engaged in the business of… Read More ›

• An inspiring antidote to student rejection

  By chris holme on August 9, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Thousands of British teenagers will get bad news this month. The late David Nyhan wrote this column for the Boston Globe in 1987. It was intended for American high school students but its appeal is universal. It is so brilliant that… Read More ›

• Not just another bunch of Herberts……..

  By chris holme on August 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  One way of telling your firm’s history on the web is to get the local school to do it. This approach has some advantages.  The internet is all about engagement with wider communities and empowering them. Visitors to websites can… Read More ›

• The Yanks are coming – bring out the Wellcome mat

  By chris holme on July 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The Wellcome Trust kicks off its 75th anniversary celebrations today. Founded by Sir Henry Wellcome (left), it’s a unique organisation in many ways.  It invests more than £600 million a year in medical research and is also far and away the biggest… Read More ›

• Revealed: IBM’s founder was a chip off the old block

  By chris holme on July 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  IBM (International Business Machines) is now celebrating its first 100 years with a range of activities across the world. As you’d expect, it is a very impressive corporate web history with a strong emphasis on continued progress in the Panglossian… Read More ›

• The man who made the first x-ray movie

  By chris holme on July 12, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  It is quite astonishing that in 1896 someone was already making a movie of an x-ray. Even more remarkable is the story of the man who produced it.  Here’s the movie (it starts with a frog’s leg and moves to… Read More ›

• Open University history

  By chris holme on July 1, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Unlikely bedfellows – Margaret Thatcher and Jennie Lee Full marks to Rachel Garnham and the Open University team which is encouraging staff and student memories to help create an interactive online history for its 40th anniversary. It’s another innovation from… Read More ›