BAC News

BAC Awards winners announced

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 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. 

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BAC 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. 

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Announcing 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.

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