News: Archive for 2011
Action to save Wedgwood collections
Members of the Crisis Management Team for business archives are in discussion with the Business Archives Council and other relevant bodies to support the appeal to save the Wedgwood collection.
Posted on: Friday, 23rd December 2011
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Seminar: With Constant Care
The Section on Business and Labour Archives (SBL) within the International Council on Archives (ICA) is pleased to announce its annual seminar: With Constant Care...the Business Archivist in the 21st Century.
Posted on: Tuesday, 13th December 2011
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Financial records event
BACS and ARA Scottish Region are holding a joint event on Financial Records sponsored by CAIS Dundee to introduce members of both organisations to the records of financial institutions. It is on Friday 25th November in Dundee. It will provide a hands-on opportunity to use the records of the Alliance Trust, one of Dundee's prominent Investment Trusts and learn more about using financial records. Details here:http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/bacs/events/.
Posted on: Saturday, 5th November 2011
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Three conferences in November
There are three conferences in November which may be of interest to business archivists or users of business archives.
Posted on: Saturday, 5th November 2011
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JCB digs up its own history
The letters JCB are a generally-accepted term for any kind of digger or excavator. It is shorthand for the company (JC Bamford Excavators Ltd), as well as its products. The success of the company and the brand is now being celebrated in a £5m permanent exhibition The Story of JCB.
Posted on: Tuesday, 25th October 2011
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New case study available from Coutts
A new case study is now available on the Managing Business Archives site. It explores how Coutts used its archive to support its sponsorship of London Fashion Week in 2010.
Posted on: Tuesday, 25th October 2011
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Architecture, Building and Construction Records Survey
Funded to run for one year, the project is a partnership between the Business Archives Council and The National Archives.
Posted on: Monday, 10th October 2011
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Go Gay with Gaymer's: BAC Cataloguing Grant 2011
The Business Archives Council is delighted to announce the winning applicant of the BAC cataloguing grant for business archives. The judging panel on behalf of the Council has awarded the grant to Norfolk Record Office for cataloguing of the archives of Gaymers, The Gaymer Group Ltd of Attleborough, Norfolk, cider and related beverage manufacturers.
Posted on: Friday, 2nd September 2011
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Using business archives to research charity history
A new blog post from the Voluntary Action History Society discusses using business archives to research charity history. View the blog here: http://www.vahs.org.uk/2011/08/business-archives-and-voluntary-action/.
Posted on: Tuesday, 30th August 2011
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Exhibition: The Pringle Archive Project 1815-2011
Harvey Nichols Edinburgh and Pringle of Scotland invite you to an exclusive exhibition of the Pringle Archive Project 1815-2011.
Posted on: Wednesday, 10th August 2011
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Kay's Catalogues in the news
Viewers of the BBC Breakfast programme on July 29th were able to enjoy many of the images gathered from over 100 years of the famous mail order catalogue.
Posted on: Friday, 29th July 2011
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Deposits of business records in 2010
The annual accessions exercise conducted by the Archive Sector Development department at The National Archives is now complete and the results can be accessed from their website.
Posted on: Tuesday, 19th July 2011
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Book your place at the Business Archive Council's 2011 conference
This year's Business Archives Council conference is Business Archives Sans Frontières, to be held on Thursday 10th November at Unilever House, Blackfriars, London. The aim of the conference is to consider the management of international business archives, both the benefits and difficulties of managing records across the world by the business, but also the issues raised by an external organisation, such as a local record office, university or commercial company, managing such archives, often on a business's behalf. And which is the better option?
Posted on: Monday, 4th July 2011
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UNESCO recognises UK business archives
In May 2011, twenty items and collections were inscribed in the UK Memory of the World Register, which records documentary heritage of cultural significance specific to the UK.
Posted on: Friday, 17th June 2011
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Roche's expansion into the UK - A podcast from The National Archives
Swiss company Roche was founded in 1896 as one of the very first industrial companies solely focused on the development and production of scientifically proven pharmaceuticals.
This podcast explores Roche's expansion into the UK, drawing on items in the Roche Historical Collection and Archive.
Posted on: Wednesday, 1st June 2011
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Savile Row and civilization
Business records featured prominently in a recent episode of Channel 4s series Civilization: is the West History? Presenter Niall Ferguson looked at how, in an era of mass consumption, the rest of the world had increasingly abandoned indigenous styles of dress in favour of western trends. He looked at the customer records of the bespoke tailor, and effective founder of the Savile Row tradition, Henry Poole & Co.
Posted on: Tuesday, 19th April 2011
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From Scarborough to Shanghai
Nowadays, the banking giant HSBC styles itself as "The world's local bank". In an industry that has seen so much consolidation, it is hard to trace the complex process by which dozens of small and obscure concerns gradually combined to form the handful of mega-banks that we know today. It's hard, but not impossible, and that is why banks, more than any other sector, are so well staffed with archivists.
Posted on: Tuesday, 19th April 2011
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Roche archivist lectures at The National Archives
The wealth of material relating to British history held in the Roche Historical Collection and Archive in Basel, Switzerland was demonstrated in the talk delivered at Kew by its curator, Alexander L Bieri, in February 2011. The UK affiliate of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant was established in 1908 and its early days in London and, subsequently, Welwyn Garden City were vividly described in a presentation illustrated with a rich variety of images.
Posted on: Wednesday, 16th March 2011
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National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland
The National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland was launched earlier this year at the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh .
Posted on: Saturday, 12th March 2011
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Conference on the history of tobacco and tobacco advertising
Smoking, Advertising and the History of Consumer Culture, a one day conference on the history of tobacco and tobacco advertising, has been announced. The conference will be at the School of History, the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 18th May 2011. Register by 3rd May 2011.
Posted on: Friday, 11th March 2011
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