News November 2011
Welcome to the news section of the BRA, the place to keep up to date with all the latest activities and news from the association.
Standing Order Forms
A new standing order form is now available for members who wish to pay their membership subscription via standing order. To download a copy of the form click here.
Annual Report 2011
The Annual Report for the financial year April 2010 - March 2011 is now available. If you would like to download a copy please click here.
BRA Conference 2011
The title of the 2011 conference has been announced "Beyond the Fringe: archives of pressure groups" will take place on Tuesday 29 November and further information can be found on our conference page.
New Archives and the User Series Publication
A new volume in the Archives and the User series titled 'Seals and Sealing Practices' has just been published.
Too often seals are overlooked as valuable sources for historians through lack of skill to understand and interpret them. The next 'Archives and the User' handbook seeks to address this, being an accesible guide, Dr Elizabeth New, to the creation, type, identification and use of seals from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Digitial technology means that we will be able to use a greater number of images than before and it is envisaged that this work, will become an indispensible tool for all historians - professional and amateur. Click here to order your copy now
Notice of Intent to digitize back issues of Archives
The British Records Association hopes to make back issues of Archives available in electronic form.
The current procedure for publication in Archives requires authors assign copyright (for both print and electronic publication) to the British Records Association. This does not limit an author's ability to reuse material, but ensures that it is possible to protect copyright internationally. In the past copyright was not administered in this way, nor was permission sought to obtain electronic rights because electronic publishing was not envisaged. To identify and locate all the authors who have previously contributed to Archives and obtain their (or, in the case of deceased authors, their executor's) permission to republish their work electronically would be an enormous task and beyond the resources of the Association.
I take this opportunity therefore to notify authors of the proposed digitisation and to ask for any authors who object to let me know. In the absence of such objections I will assume that permission has been given; where objections are made I will omit the relevant work(s) from the scanned back archive.
I am anxious to ensure that this notice is disseminated as widely as possible. Please draw it to the attention of any colleagues who may have published in Archives in the past.
Ruth Paley
Honorary Editor, Archives