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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 ...
Legal Records at Risk Guidance now online
The Records at Risk Steering Group have updated Legal Records at Risk guidance for solicitors and law firms needing advice on keeping archives. The guide has been endorsed by the Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Professor Carl Stychin, the British Records Association and the Business Archives Council.
The guide can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Find out more about the BRA's records preservation work by visiting the Records at Risk page on our website. You can download our 2012 Records and Risk report on risks to historical records in the East of ...
ARCHIVES 57 (2022) Table of Contents and Abstracts
BRA Members can view the latest ARCHIVES publication, and past issues, by logging into the Liverpool University Press website here.
Volume 57 (2022) Issue 1
ARTICLES
David Robinson, A Thamesside town in the early fifteenth century: Kingston upon Thames and its people
Clare Cowling Undeposited records in Oxfordshire: A methodology for the identification and preservation of private-sector records
OBITUARIES
Hugh Doherty, Richard Sharpe, diplomatist (1954-2020)
David Robinson with contributions by Rosemary Dunhill and Kathe Thompson, Amanda Arrowsmith (1947-2...