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BAC Cataloguing Grants announced
Announcing two BAC Cataloguing Grants: for business archives and business archives related to the arts:
The Business Archives Council (BAC) has announced that it has increased its two cataloguing grants for business collections to £4000 each in 2018. The aim of these grants is to fund the cataloguing of a business collection in either the private or public sector, and to:
Provide financial support for institutions/businesses that manage business archives;
Reach collections that have not yet been prioritised but have potential academic or socio-historical ...
ARCHIVES: Autumn 2017 issue: ToC and Abstracts
Contents
Matti Watton, Seven hundred years since a spade cost sixpence: Records of the Lambeth Palace garden
Toby Parker, Lost in the long books: Eighteenth century college gardens in Oxford
Margaret Willes, Here today, gone tomorrow
Lesley Acton, Allotment gardens: Research challenges and surprising discoveries
Richard Storey, Small gardens, big business
Abstracts
Matti Watton, Seven hundred years since a spade cost sixpence: Records of the Lambeth Palace garden
Archbishops of Canterbury have lived on the site occupied by Lambeth Palace for around 800 ...
BRA: 85 YEARS WORKING FOR ARCHIVES
Tuesday 14th November 2017 was the 85th anniversary of the day in 1932 when the British Records Association was formally inaugurated, at a meeting of the Conference of Record and Allied Societies. The meeting was presided over by the Master of the Rolls, who still acts as the President of the Association.
The British Records Association took over from the British Record Society its work to promote the preservation, care and availability of private archives, and this early vision continues to guide the Association today. A free booklet produced to mark the ...