07 Nov 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 famous spirit and one of the nation’s greatest exports is affectionately known as liquid gold, and our conference explored the richness of business archive collections. This included business archives as assets for their own corporate businesses but also considered their wider value to society and potential for academic research and public engagement.
The programme is available here and included speakers from the following organisations: The Macallan, Swire Archives, Coventry University, DC Thomson & Co Ltd, NLS Moving Image Archive, Hennessy, Hongkong Land Corporate Archives, National Museums Scotland, Reckitt, Levi Strauss & Co. Archives, RSHP / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Robert Welch Designs, News UK, the Centre for Business History in Stockholm, Alfred Gillett Trust and the Guardian News & Media Archive
The conference was hosted by The Macallan at 100 Queen Street, Glasgow with online attendance also available. The conference was sponsored by TownsWebArchiving, Naomi Korn Associates and Preservica and included an evening reception with canapes and whisky tasting. On Friday morning there was a chance to visit Glasgow City Archives where their archivist Dr Irene O’Brien will showcase items from their extensive business archive collections and discuss how the archives are contributing to celebrations for Glasgow’s 850th anniversary in 2025.