British Records Association

Author: Michael Edwards

  • 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.

    Julia Sheppard

    Chair

  • Annual Conference – 26 November 2015

    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 Bedfordshire.

    12.20 ‘Hosts and Champions’: celebrating Scotland’s contribution to the Commonwealth Games

    Karl Magee, University Archivist, University of Stirling

    12.35 Lunch

    13.45 From the Auto Windscreens Shield to the Zenith Data Systems Cup: the Collections and Archives of the National Football Museum

    Dr Alexander Jackson, Collections Officer, National Football Museum

    14.25 Bloody shirts and muddy boots: tackling the Rugby Football League archive at Heritage Quay

    Robert Clegg, Collections Access Officer, Heritage Quay, Univ of Huddersfield

    15.05 Bowling along for two hundred years

    Dr Nat Alcock, Chairman of the Records Preservation Section, BRA

    15.45 Tea

    16.15 Maurice Bond Memorial Lecture – Dr Fiona Skillen

    Researching Women’s Sports History: the Challenges and the Rewards

    Glasgow Caledonian University and Chair of British Society of Sports History

    17.15 AGM

    18.00 Close

    To book your space, please use either the online booking form (recommended) or print a conference leaflet including booking form and follow instructions in the booking form