Business Bites: Cataloguing Business Archives
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Previous Events
Conference: Liquid Gold (November 2024)
In November 2024 we held our joint conference with the Business Archives Council on the theme of ‘Liquid Gold: realising the potential of your business archive collections’. Scotland’s most fa...
Business Bites: Commercial Opportunities for Cultural Heritage Organisations (Sept 2024)
The theme of this event is – Commercial Opportunities for Cultural Heritage Organisations Where: Online – via ZoomWhen: 25/09/2024 12.30 – 13.30 What: The creative industries...
Business Bites: Environmental Sustainability (June 2024)
Business Bites: Environmental Sustainability Our June Business Bites event was on the topic of environmental sustainability. Theme: Environmental Sustainability Where: Online – via Zoom When: Wednes...
BACS 2024 AGM (June 2024)
2024 AGM The 2024 AGM for the Business Archives Council of Scotland was held on Thursday 20th June at the AK Bell Library in Perth and included talks on the topic of archives and museums and a tour of...
Business Bites: The Importance of Record Surveying (May 2024)
In May (rescheduled from April) the Business Archives Surveying Officer shared recent success stories and partnerships to illustrate this unique archive role in Scotland, as well as discussing the fol...
Business Bites: Research Using Business Archives (February 2024)
During the first Business Bites webinar of the year, we heard from the recipients of the 2022 Business Archive Council Bursary of Business History Research who talked about the research they have carr...
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...
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...
Corporate Connections: Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives (October 2021)
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 i...
Corporate Connections: Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives (May 2021)
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 Univ...
Corporate Connections: Connections to Slavery & Empire in Business Archives (March 2021)
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 F...
Corporate Connections: Collecting in a Crisis (December 2020)
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 o...
Conference: Business Archives and Film
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...
Corporate Connections: Oral History in Business Archives (May 2019)
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...
Corporate Connections: Producing Corporate Histories (November 2018)
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 busin...
Conference: Art and Design in Business Archives (October 2018)
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...
Paisley’s Industrial & Cultural Heritage Conference (June 2018)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland in partnership with the Paisley Centre for Business and Industrial History at the University of the West of Scotland delivered a one day conference on Wednesd...
Conference: 40 Years of the Surveying Officer (October 2017)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2017 conference was held in Glasgow on Thursday 2nd November at West Brewery. The conference celebrated 40 years of the Surveying Officer and was held at ...
Corporate Connections: Digital Preservation (September 2017)
Our second Corporate Connections event was held in Glasgow on September 2017 at Waxy O’Connors. The theme was Digital Preservation and the discussion was led by archivists from Lloyds Banking Group ...
Corporate Connections: Celebrating Anniversaries (April 2017)
The first Corporate Connections event was held in Edinburgh on April 2017 at All Bar One. The theme was Celebrating Anniversaries and began with the Harper Collins archivists telling us about the role...
Conference: Digital Records and the User (November 2016)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2016 conference was held in Edinburgh on Tuesday 15 November 2016 at Standard Life House. The theme was Digital Records and the User and explored digital ...
Conference: Working Lives Recorded (November 2015)
The Business Archives Council for Scotland’s 2015 conference was held in Glasgow on Friday 20th November at the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde. It was on the theme of 'Worki...
Scottish Business and Industrial History Conference (April 2015)
This conference held at Stirling University was organised by Sam McKinstry and Alisdair Dobie to explore a wide range of themes relating to the economic, social, business and industrial development of...
Conference: Records at Risk (November 2014)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2014 conference was organised in association with Archives and Records Association (ARA) Scotland in Glasgow on Thursday 20th November 2014 at the Univers...
Meet the Archivists (October 2014)
The third Meet the Archivists event was held in Glasgow on 31st October 2014 at the University of Strathclyde in the Scottish Oral History Centre. This event focused on the use of business archives fo...
Training Day for Corporate Archivists – Celebrating Anniversaries (August 2014)
There are few training events that are truly relevant to archivists in corporate environments. Following feedback and in addition to our annual AGM and conference BACS delivered a training event exclu...
Scottish Business and Industrial History Conference (March 2014)
This conference held at Stirling University on Wednesday 5 March 2014 was organised by Sam McKinstry and Alisdair Dobie. It explored a wide range of themes relating to the economic, social, business a...
Conference: Understanding Photographic Archives (November 2013)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2013 conference was held in Edinburgh on Friday 22nd November 2013 at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The theme ...
Meet the Archivists (September 2013)
The second Meet the Archivists event was held in Edinburgh on Friday 20th September 2013 at the Edinburgh College of Art. The aim of our Meet the Archivists events is to bring together academics and a...
Conference: Understanding Technical Archives (December 2012)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2012 conference was organised in association with the Archives and Records Association Scotland and held in Glasgow at the Mitchell Library. The theme was...
Meet the Archivists (November 2012)
The first Meet the Archivists event was held in Glasgow on Friday 9th November 2012 at the Centre for Business History. The aim of our Meet the Archivists events is to bring together academics and ...
Conference: Financial Records (November 2011)
The Business Archives Council of Scotland’s 2011 conference was organised in association with ARA Scotland and held in Dundee on Friday 25th November 2011 at the University of Dundee. The theme was...