Our first Corporate Connections event in 2022 remained online and was on the theme of Environmental Sustainability. Georgina Robinson, a school archivist and the chair of the ARA Environmental Sustainability Group led the discussion on the impact the work we do has on the world...
The theme of the 2021 conference was Anniversaries. At the beginning of 2020, the Business Archives Council of Scotland was preparing to celebrate its 60th anniversary with a range of events planned for throughout the year. Unfortunately few of our activities took place and as we...
This event continues our theme of ‘Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives’. Discussion was led by Carissa Chew and looked at how to deal with the language of slavery and empire in the archives. In 2021 Carissa was a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant...
The second Corporate Connections event in 2021 continued the theme of ‘Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives’. Discussion was led by Clare Paterson, Senior Archivist at the University of Glasgow. Clare discussed the role of the University’s corporate archive supporting the University of...
Corporate Connections events throughout 2021 explored the theme of ‘Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives’. The first event was led by Jennifer Melville, Project Leader of the Facing Our Past project at the National Trust for Scotland. As Jennifer writes here: “The National Trust for...
The only Corporate Connections event held in 2020 due to lockdowns and the Covid-19 pandemic was held at the end of the year in December. This event was followed by the BACS AGM where a summary of the years events was provided and officers elected onto...
The 2019 conference was on the theme of business archives and film, it was held in the Kelvinhall in Glasgow on 2nd September. It was organised in partnership with the Archives and Records Association Scotland and the National Library of Scotland and we were...
The fourth Corporate Connections event was held in Edinburgh at the National Records of Scotland on 17th May. It was on theme of Oral History in Business Archives. Discussion was led by Arthur MacIvor of the University of Strathclyde Oral History Centre, who provided an...
The third Corporate Connections event was held in Glasgow on November 2018 at the University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections. The theme was Producing Corporate Histories: how are business archives used to research and produce business histories? Discussion was led by Michael Moss on...
The Business Archives Council of Scotland's 2018 conference was held in Dundee on Friday 12th October at the Meadowside offices of DC Thomson. The theme was art and design in business archives and the day included a viewing of the ‘Bash Street’s Back at The...