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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 ...
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 ...
BRA Conference 2024 – Programme and free place announced
The British Records Association Annual Conference 2024 is being held in partnership with the Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC), a network for all museums, libraries and archives holding performance arts materials in the UK and Ireland.
This is an opportunity to share the work of the performing arts archive world with the wider sector and consider the transferability of particular methods and experiences of performing arts information professionals.
The conference theme is active archiving, with, through, and for practitioners. We will explore how ...