British Records Association

Category: Past Events

  • Event: Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2016

    London, Greater London

    The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2016: The Experience of the Archive

    By: Institute of Historical Research

    Location: Wolfson Conference Suite, IHR
    Registration: 09:30-10:00

    This seminar will focus on the critical questions which surround the individual, personal and community experience of the archive and the ways in which that experience affects how the archive is understood and used. Just as the production of the archive is not neutral or static, the use of the archive is a matter not only of the content found there but also of the process by which the archive is experienced. In a digital world, the experience of ‘reading’ the archive may be very different from the traditional engagement which required a scholar to travel through time and space to read the archive. Is there something of the physical experience of being in the archive which is still valuable? What other insights does the experience of the archive bring? …. to read more and register, click this link.

  • 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

  • Upstairs, downstairs: life in British stately homes and town houses

    Annual Conference British Records Association jointly with The Historic Houses Archivists Group  

    Tuesday 2 December 2014

    Programme

    09.45   Registration and coffee

    10.15   Welcome

    Anthony Smith, Chair of the British Records Association

    10.20  ‘Let each man do his best’: The Percy Family and their staff in the First    World War, 1914-1918’

    Christopher Hunwick, Archivist to the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle and Syon House

    11.00 ” A More Steady and Moral Set of Servants I never saw” : the Sutherland Collection as a research source for the domestic household of Trentham, Staffordshire, 1830-50. 

    Pamela Sambrook, Consultant to the National Trust and English Heritage

    11.40 ‘Between Upstairs and Downstairs: Archives and the architecture of later medieval-early Tudor domestic administrators’

    Peter Brears, former director of York and Leeds city museums and museum and country house consultant.

    12.30 Lunch (buffet supplied)

    Please note: The BRA AGM will take place from 13:35 to 14:00 during the lunch period – non-members welcome to attend AGM as observers.

    Time has been set aside for lunch to allow delegates to view Syon House with its portraits and (weather permitting) the gardens.

    14.00  Palladian and Practical: Country House Technology at Holkham Hall

    Christine Hiskey, Archivist at Holkham Hall

    14.40 ‘One of the family? The nanny in town and country houses in 20th Century Britain’

    Dr Katherine Holden, research fellow in history at the University of the West of England

    15.20 : ‘Taxidermy and the Country House’.

    Dr Pat Morris, former senior lecturer in Zoology at Royal Holloway, University of London, member of National Trust Council

    16.00 Tea

    16.30 Maurice Bond Memorial lecture – Jeremy Musson

    “Trinity College Cambridge servants in the nineteenth century: from household to hotel: with comparison to roles, duties and rewards of nineteenth century country house service”

    Distinguished author, editor and presenter, who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of the history of British country houses and architecture.

     

    ANNUAL CONFERENCE

    British Records Association with the Historic Houses Archivists Group

    Syon Park, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 8JF 2 December 2014

                                     With thanks to the Duke of Northumberland for providing Syon House as the venue                            

     SATNAV – TW7 6AZ.

    Public Transport: For directions and latest travel news visit www.tfl.gov.uk/

    Plan your journey by using TFL’s Journey Planner

    By Rail: From Waterloo to Kew Bridge then bus as below or North London line to Gunnersbury then bus as below. Syon House is a walk of about 1 mile from Brentford or Syon Lane Stations. contact National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950 for more information

    By Coach

    For more information, please contact Stagecoach on 01604 676060.

    By Underground: District Line to Gunnersbury, 237 or 267 bus to Brentlea Gate bus stop. Pedestrian entrance 50 yards.

    Central Line to Ealing Broadway, E2 bus to Brentford Holiday Inn.  Pedestrian entrance 150 yards.

    Piccadilly Line to Boston Manor, E8 bus to Brentford Holiday Inn.  Pedestrian entrance 150 yards.

    By Road: Vehicle entrance – Park Road, Isleworth.  There is free parking

    M4 from West Exit junction 3, right at the roundabout and follow the signs to the A4 and London. Turn right at Gillette/Homebase traffic lights and follow signs to Syon Park

    A4 from West Turn right at Gillette/Homebase traffic lights and follow signs to Syon Park

    From South West M3-A316, left on A310 through Isleworth, on past West Middlesex Hospital, hard right into Park Road, Isleworth

    M4 from Central London Exit junction 2, go 1 1/4 miles on A4 to Gillette corner, left to Isleworth and Syon House

    From Kew Bridge A315 through Brentford, left at traffic lights after Syon Lodge.

    From Richmond A 316 westbound over Twickenham Bridge, second right on A310 through Isleworth, then on past West Middlesex Hospital, hard right into Park Road, Isleworth.

    For any other requirements please contact British Records Association in advance.. For enquiries re access call Syon House 020 8560 0882 or email info@syonpark.co.uk

    For map and further information see www.syonhouse.co.uk

    The British Records Association,c/o Finsbury Library,245 St John Street,London EC1V 4NB

    T +44 (0)20 7833 0428

    info@britishrecordsassociation.org.uk   www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

    The British Records Association is a registered charity (no. 227464/ACL) founded in 1932. The Association aims to encourage and assist with the preservation, care, use and publication of records. For further information about the British Records Association or for a membership form please contact info@britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

    The conference is now fully booked.