Business Archives Council

Founded in 1934, the objectives of the Business Archives Council are to promote the preservation of business records of historical importance; supply advice and information on the administration and management of both archives and modern records and to encourage interest in the history of business in Britain. The Council is a registered charity and derives much of its income from the annual subscriptions of its members. These include business organisations, libraries and other institutions, and individual archivists, records managers, business people and historians. We manage and fund a programme of activities and events designed to make business archives better understood and better used. We manage and fund a programme of activities and events designed to make business archives better understood and better used. From conference and workshops to cataloguing grants, we provide a wide range of support to business archivists and business archive collections. The Council's produces an electronic newsletter and the past publication programme Business Archives is available on its website. Other Council publications include Managing Business Archives and Business History Explorer. In recent years surveys of the archives of brewing, banking and shipbuilding have been published, as has a survey of the archives of 1, 000 of the oldest registered companies in Britain. Business Archives at Risk - If you think business archives are at risk, for example from a company liquidation, poor management and /or storage conditions, please contact the Crisis Management Team for advice using the Council's website.
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