British Records Association

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  • Maurice Bond Lecture tickets now available

    Maurice Bond Lecture tickets now available

    “Living through a pandemic has forced historians to look anew at previous crises and to interrogate archives with different assumptions. It also makes us think about what material we should be generating for future historians.”

    Martin Daunton, Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at Gresham College will consider the topic of Covid and the Historian in the British Record Association’s 2021 Maurice Bond Lecture.

    We will also take the opportunity to present the 2021 Janette Harley Prize to Dr Amy Erickson for her work “City Women in the 18th Century”.

    Click this link to book tickets on Eventbrite.

    Wed, 23 February 2022

    18:00 – 20:00 GMT

    Access is available from 5.30pm. Please go to the West Wing entrance to Guildhall, on the corner of Aldermanbury and Gresham Street by St Lawrence Jewry church. Bags will have to pass through security scanners.

    Image detail from Esther Sleepe’s trade card © Trustees of the British Museum.

  • 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 at Risk Fund will continue to focus on records unprotected by legislation, such as the archives of businesses, charities and individuals, and will help organisations that do not have the resources to respond to collections at immediate risk for any reason.

    Limited funding is available but applicants will be able to apply for funds of up to £5000, which will help cover the costs of a range of urgent activities needed to transfer vulnerable material to safe custody. These activities could include transporting and temporarily storing the records, purchasing conservation and packaging materials, or emergency conservation work such as decontamination. Successful applicants could also use their grants to carry out an on site appraisal of the records at risk or to gain expertise from a freelance consultant.

    Find out more on TNA’s Records at Risk Fund webpages.

  • 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.