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Records at Risk Fund Launched
The BRA has worked in partnership with The National Archives (TNA) and the Archives and Records Association to launch the Records at Risk Fund, a new collaborative pilot fund to support urgent interventions to save physical and digital records facing immediate peril across the UK.
The fund has been created in response to the increased risk of vulnerable collections being lost or dispersed in the wake of the pandemic. In 2020, TNA awarded grants from the government’s ‘COVID-19 Archives Fund’ and this new partnership programme builds on that experience. The Records ...
Shock of the Record: Latest webinar can now be viewed online
The latest Shock of the Record partnership seminar with the Institute of Historical Research is now available online to view in a fully captioned film. The topics discussed in this webinar series cover conspiracy theories, the idea of 'truth' and the impact of this on both everyday life and our understanding of history.
Thanks to speakers Iyra Buenrostro-Cabbab from the University of the Philippines, Stanley Griffin from the University of the West Indies, Philosopher Susan Stuart and chairs Sarah Tyacke and David Thomas.
Winner of the 2021 Janette Harley Prize announced
The British Records Association is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2021 Janette Harley Prize is Dr Amy L Erickson, Robinson College, Cambridge, for City Women in the 18th Century, a free open-air exhibition in autumn 2019 about women who ran luxury businesses in the City of London in the 18th century; and a supporting article, ‘Esther Sleepe, fanmaker, and her family’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 42 (2) (2018), pp.15-37.
“The exhibition was based upon trade cards in the British Museum, and described over fifty women in business in the heart of the City ...