Past Events
Event: Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2016
Fri, 29 Apr at 09:30, 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...