Diary
Diary of Business Archive Events
2013
November
7 November - Business Archives Council 2013 conference, Show me the money! Securing Funding for Business Archive Projects, will be held at the Boots Archive, Nottingham.
July
11 July - Public talk at The National Archives by Dr Ulrike Gutzmann of the Volkswagen Corporate Archives in Wolfsburg.
5-6 July - Oral History Society annual conference, with focus on corporate oral histories.
June
23-27 June - The European Association for Banking and Financial History e.V. International Summer School for Archivists, Venice
6-8 June -The European Association for Banking And Financial History (EABH) e.V. Annual Conference, Radisson Blu Centrum Hotel, Warsaw, Poland
April
14-16 April - "Crises, Credibility and Corporate History: tackling the archives conflict between scientific history and marketing" the ICA's SBL annual seminar in Basel, Switzerland
12-13 April - The Beating Heart of London's Business.
8 April - ARA North region training day "Takin' care of business"; Archives and records of business
February
18-20 February - Blueprint Archives Heritage Trail, Glasgow. For more information, visit http://blueprint2013.com/Heritage_trail.html.
January
31 January - Teaching economic and business history in the 21st century, Glasgow. For more information, visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/Disciplines_AH/GEN304_Glasgow.
2012
December
19 December - Seminar: "Selective history - the absence of business archives in the retelling of the past" at the Institute of Historical Research in London at 5.30pm.
November
29 November - Meet the Archivists at BPMA, London.
9 November - Meet the Archivists at the Centre of Business History, Glasgow.
July
6-7 July - Association of Business Historians conference.
June
7-9 June - EABH (European Association of Banking & Financial History) Conference and Archivists' Workshop, Bucharest.
May
17 May - Frame on Frame: textiles films from the Scottish Screen Archive at Dovecot Studios.
April
26 April - Selling History: The Role of the Past at Fortnum & Mason, a public talk by Dr Andrea Tanner, Archivist, Fortnum & Mason Ltd at The National Archives at 2pm.
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
22 March - Business Archives: New Initiatives and Developments, a public talk by Alex Ritchie at The National Archives at 2pm.
16 March - Launch of The Marks & Spencer Company Archive, Michael Marks Building, Western Campus, University of Leeds.
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!
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