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Basic Archive Skills Training
The British Records Association is pleased to have the opportunity to support Margaret Crockett and Janet Foster (both formerly of The Archive-Skills Consultancy Ltd) in the delivery of their long-running Basic Archive Skills Training Day, originally developed in 1991. This online course is designed to provide participants with a basic grounding in the fundamental understanding and skills required for those making their way in today’s world of archives and records management.
The first of the Training Days under BRA administration (which will continue to be delivered by Margaret and Janet, with Mark Pomeroy and Jonathan Rhys-Lewis as guest ...
Winner of the Janette Harley Prize 2024
The British Records Association is delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Janette Harley Prize: Dr Eliza Wheaton (editor), Loving and Obedient? Family Correspondence of the Mores of Loseley Park, 1537-1686 (Surrey Record Society vol. XLVIII, 2023)
The archives of the More family of Loseley Park, near Guildford, are exceptional for the wealth of family correspondence of the 16th and 17th centuries. This selection of letters and documents presents the lives and preoccupations of the More women over nearly 150 years, in their own words. Many of the issues loom large in personal life in any age, but often escape surviving records.
The women ...
A review: Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance
A review of the BRA 2024 Conference 'Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance' by Helen Epega
I was delighted to be awarded a free place at this year’s British Records Association (BRA) conference, Curtain Up: The Archives of Theatre and Performance in the UK, held in London on 29 October 2024. As a first-time attendee and a relative newcomer to the BRA, I was intrigued by the theme, given my deep interest in the preservation and accessibility of cultural records. I wanted to attend to learn more about cultural representation in archiving, why some things are archived, who chooses what to archive and why, the process of archiving and ...