Diary
Diary of Business Archive Events
2012
Date TBC - Launch of The Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Michael Marks Building, Western Campus, University of Leeds.
June
7-9 June - EABH (European Association of Banking & Financial History) Conference and Archivists' Workshop, Bucharest
April
20-21 April - Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics Conference, Derby
16-17 April - With Constant Care...the Business Archivist in the 21st Century, seminar, Copenhagen.
March
23 March - Business Archives: New Initiatives and Developments, a public talk by Alex Ritchie at The National Archives.
January
27 January - The Bottom Line: The Value of Business Archives for Research, Swansea University.
2011
December
8 December Meet the Archivists at The Rothschild Archive. An opportunity for students to find out more about using business archives in academic research and for business archives to promote their collections.
November
10 November - Business Archives Council annual conference at Unilever, London.
10 November - Award of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History.
15 November - Conference at the University of Worcester: THE CATALOGUE OF DREAMS: Kays mail order catalogues & the development of C20th aspirational living.
18 November - Conference: 'Gothenburgs, Galas and Goals: the intangible cultural heritage of the coal mining industry' at National Mining Museum Scotland in Midlothian.
25 November - BACS and ARA Scottish Region joint event on Financial Records, Dundee.
August
3-24 August The Pringle Archive Project 1815-2011, Harvey Nichols Edinburgh.
May
11 May - International Council on Archives Symposium, The value of business archives: their use by Japanese companies and new global trends. Tokyo, Japan.
18 May - Smoking, Advertising and the History of Consumer Culture, a one day conference on the history of tobacco and tobacco advertising at the School of History, University of Nottingham.
20 May - Open afternoon at the Stoddard-Templeton Archive.
20-21 May - European Association for Banking and Financial History Annual Conference, Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions Historical Developments and Current Problems, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
March
30 March - Industrial Relations History Symposium at the Centre for Business History in Scotland, Glasgow.
24 March - Annan Lecture by John Hume Unknown Scottish photographers: the role of the works photographer, at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. See http://www.sshop.org.uk/html/events.htm.
February
British Steel Archive Project reception at the House of Commons, London.
January
Launch of the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland at the Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh. See http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives.
22 January - The Inventors of Tradition Exhibition at Panel, Glasgow.
2010
November
DAKS Simpson Group reception and launch of museum/archive at Old Bond Street flagship store, London.
Business Archives Council annual conference at Freemasons Hall, London,Business Archives: The Unexpected!
Award of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History.
Meet the Archivists. Business Archives Council's archive workshop for new researchers at HSBC, London.
September
European Association for Banking and Financial History International Summer School for Archivists, Archivists as Communicators, London.
May
re:SEARCHING: playing in the archive. A collaboration between the University of the Arts, London and The Baring Archive investigating the relationship between artists, archives and collections.
International Council on Archives Symposium, Corporate memory, a tool serving management. Blois, France.
European Association for Banking and Financial History Annual Conference, Responding to crises in a global financial environment. Risk management and regulation. Brussels, Belgium.
March
Launch of the Ghostsigns archive on the History of Advertising Trust website at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, London.
2009
November
Business Archives Council annual conference at The National Archives, Kew, Delivering Results: Collaboration and Exploitation of Business Archives.
Award of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History.
July
Launch of the National Strategy for Business Archives (England and Wales) at the House of Lords, London.