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Extraordinary General Meeting

On Wednesday 18 November at an Extraordinary General Meeting, BRA members voted overwhelmingly (39 to 9 with 2 abstentions) to remain as an independent body and not to dissolve and transfer its assets to the ARA. There was an informed discussion about the proposal to dissolve which demonstrated the strength of feeling for BRA’s aims and objectives ‘to promote for the public benefit the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage’. A new set of officers is developing plans for some key changes intended to give the BRA a new lease of life. Further information will be issued shortly. Ju...

Annual Conference – 26 November 2015

'In a league of their own': archives of the history of British sport and physical recreation Programme 09.45   Registration and coffee 10.15  Welcome Anthony Smith, Chair of the British Records Association 10.20 'We will play with a ball full of wynde': sport at Eton since the 15th century Eleanor Hoare, Eton College Archivist 11.00 'Upon the Elysian Stream': An Oxford College Boat Club's archives and its oarsmen Mark Blandford-Baker, Home Bursar, Magdalen College, Oxford 11.40 Bedford Physical Training College: the female tradition Karen Davies, Archivist, Bedford Physical Education and Levick Boyd archives,  University of Bedfordshir...