Business Bites
Since 2023, the Business Archives Council of Scotland and the Business Archives Council have presented a joint programme of regular online webinars on subjects related to Business Archives.
Business Bites is the name of this initiative to encourage conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives across the UK, many of whom work alone, to share our experiences.
Business Bites: Records at Risk
Our third Business Bites session of 2025 will be held on Wednesday, 25th June on the theme of Records at Risk. Bookings are now open.
- Where: Online – via Zoom
- When: Wednesday, 25th June 2025, 12.30pm
- Book: OPEN TO ALL book your ticket via Whitefuse
Hosted by the UK Crisis Management Team in partnership with the ARA Section for Business Records. This session will hear from the UK National Archives about their records at risk support and the UK Crisis Management Team which coordinates responses to records at risk cases in the business archives sector to highlight resources they have available and some recent examples.
We will also have two collection focused case studies:
- Penny Hutchins, Head of Archives, Library and Information at the National Army Museum. Penny will discuss the ways in which the National Army Museum supports smaller regimental museums around the UK and a recent example of a records at risk project that led to the transfer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) archive collection from FANY HQ to the National Army Museum.
- Jackie Bishop, Project Archivist: Penguin Random House at the University of Reading. Jackie will discuss their Charles Hasler collection, which was donated to University of Reading Special Collections ith the support of The National Archives following the closure of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MODA) in 2024.
Business Bites
In 2023, the Business Archives Council of Scotland and the Business Archives Council joined forces to present a joint programme of regular online webinars on subjects related to Business Archives. Business Bites is the name of this initiative to encourage conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives across the UK, many of whom work alone, to share our experiences.
These will continue throughout 2025 and we will hold a Business Bites event every two months with the first event in February on Cataloguing Business Archives. The full programme will be shared below once confirmed. All Business Bites sessions are held on the last Wednesday of every second month.
This new partnership means that our online events will be a mixture of member only events with 50% of events still open to all. Normally our regular in-person events are for BACS members who are business archivists or custodians of business archive collections. Not a BACS member already? Come along to see what BACS has to offer and become a member! (Annual membership starts from £10 for an Individual Member, £20 for Organisational Membership, £50 for Corporate Membership).
Corporate Connections
Corporate Connections was an initiative launched by BACS in 2017 (and which ran to 2023) to encourage face to face conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives in Scotland, many of whom work alone to share our experiences. Regular social meet ups were held twice a year, with a rotating theme to kick start conversations and let you meet your peers. Anything and everything business archives was openly discussed among friends. From 2020, due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, our Corporate Connections events moved online. The BACS team invited those with an interest in business archives to these informal online talks where current challenges, successes and ideas were shared over virtual tea and biscuits (to be provided by the attendees!)