AGM 2023 (Dec 2023)
The 2023 AGM for the Business Archives Council of Scotland took place on Friday 8th December 2023. This event was held at the National Library of Scotland and included a tour of their Treasures e...
Previous Events
Business Bites: Modern Collections Development (Nov 2023)
Our November business bites event was on the theme of Modern Collections Development. This was a members only event is a MEMBERS ONLY event and took place on 29th November 2023 with Mollie H...
Conference: The Digital Everyday (November 2023)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland and the Business Archive Council Scotland held a joint HYBRID conference on the 8th November 2023 at the HSBC Head Office in Canary Wharf in London. The event...
Business Bites: Sustainability in Business Archives (Sept 2023)
Our September Business Bites session looked at ‘Sustainability in Business Archives’. This event was open to ALL and held online. Environmental Sustainability is an incredibly impor...
Business Bites: Capturing Diverse Voices (July 2023)
Our July Business Bites event focused on discussing, capturing and showcasing diverse voices within Business Archive Collections We heard from two archivists working in different business on the ...
Business Bites: Research Using Business Archives (May 2023)
May saw the first official joint BACS/BAC ‘Business Bites’ event on the topic of Research Using Business Archives. It was held on the 31st May via Zoom. Speakers Dr Alix Green and Dr David...
Corporate Connections: Fundraising for Business Archives (March 2023)
Our March 2023 Corporate Connections event was entitled ‘Fundraising for Business Archives‘ and we heard from our speaker Sophie Clapp, Boots Archivist. Sophie shared her experience of wor...
Corporate Connections: Digital Preservation in Business Archives (January 2023)
This first Corporate Connections event of 2023 was led by Jenny Mitcham of the Digital Preservation Coalition and Gemma Evans from the National Library of Wales and ARCW, who discussed Digital Preserv...
Conference: Back to Basics – Business Archives in the wake of the pandemic (November 2022)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland welcomed the chance to return to an in-person conference in 2022. This was held in Edinburgh at the offices of Abrdn on George Street. Virtual attendance tick...
Corporate Connections: Diverse and Inclusive practice in business and in archives (October 2022)
The second Corporate Connections of 2022 was on the topic of diverse and inclusive practice in business and in archives. Discussion was led by Jenny Moran, ARA Diversity and Inclusion Portfolio holder...
Corporate Connections: Environmental Sustainability (May 2022)
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 Sustain...
Conference: Anniversaries (December 2021)
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 plan...