The BAC hosted the second annual BAC Awards hosted at HSCB, sponsored by Preservica and Profile Books. We are delighted to announce the winners of our three awards, Cataloguing Grant for Business Archives, BAC Bursary for Business History Research and the Wadsworth Prize.
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Register for the ICA-SBA conference in Edinburgh
Registration is now open for the ICA-SBA conference, in collaboration with the Diageo Archive, in Edinburgh on 25 and 26 September 2023.
Read moreRegister for BAC and BACS Business Bites event on capturing diverse voices
Join us for the next Business Bites event on the theme of Capturing Diverse Voices in Business Archives. Dawn Stewart, from the Macallan Brand Archives, and Sara Kinsey, from Nationwide Building Society, will discuss how they have celebrated the diversity of the businesses, their employees and local connections.
Read moreBAC and BACS announce joint conference call for papers
The Business Archive Council and the Business Archive Council Scotland are coming together to host a joint conference on the 8th November 2023. This one-day event will be held at the HSBC Head Office in Canary Wharf in London from 9.30am – 4.30pm.
Read moreAnnouncing the 2023-24 BAC research support bursary
Encouraging interest in and study of business history and archives is a key priority of the BAC and last year, we were delighted to relaunch our Research Support Bursary. Made possible by the generosity of Sir Peter Thompson, former Chairman of the National Freight Corporation, and the Wellcome Foundation, the bursary provides financial support for researchers to access business and organisational archives who would not otherwise be able to do so.
Read moreSign up for joint BAC and BACS Business Bites event
The Business Archives Councils of England, Wales and Scotland have joined forces to present a new event series – Business Bites. For this event, we invite members of both organisations to this informal event where current challenges, successes and ideas are shared at a lunchtime meeting.
Read moreNational HIV/AIDS records survey
The survey of HIV/AIDS records in England and Wales is being undertaken by the West Sussex Records Office (WSRO) based in Chichester, West Sussex. This 2 year project is funded by Annabel’s Foundation, set up by the founders of the HIV/AIDS charity, AVERT.
Read moreAnnouncing the 2023 Business Archives Council cataloguing grant
BAC is excited to announce this year’s cataloguing grant for business archives. This year a single award of £5,000 is available.
Read moreCall for papers: DCDC 2023
Call for Papers: ICA-SBA Conference 2023
ICA-SBA, in collaboration with the Diageo Archive, will be running an in-person conference between 25 and 26h September 2023 in Edinburgh at Johnnie Walker Princes Street. Business archivists interested in presenting practice-based papers on the conference theme 'Engaging with our Audiences' are invited to submit proposals.
Read moreCall for Papers for EAHB workshop
The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh), in cooperation with Deutsch Bank AG, will be running a financial archives workshop titled Banks Build: A close look at financial institutions’ ‘building’ roles. The workshop will take place on 29th June 2023. Deadline for submission is 15 Feburary 2023.
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