EH.N: ANN: Meet the Archivists Workshop in London

[C.L.Colvin at lse.ac.uk]

Meet the Archivists Workshop

How many new research students are aware of the vast array of 
opportunities within business archives? Or indeed how to make the most 
of these opportunities? Meet the Archivists is a one-day workshop 
sponsored by the Business Archives Council, the London School of 
Economics and the Rothschild Archive that seeks to address these issues.

During the workshop, students and archivists will talk about techniques 
of archival research and enjoy lunch around an exposition of business 
archives. The event is designed for advanced undergraduate students, 
research masters' students, and beginning doctoral or post-doctoral 
students embarking on new research projects. The event will take place 
on Thursday 15 January 2009 at N M Rothschild & Sons in the City of
London.

The workshop's aims are:
* To promote business archives to new researchers
* To acquaint new researchers with available business archive resources 
in the UK
* To provide skills for maximizing time spent on archival research
* To identify specific research opportunities within business archives
* To enable researchers to understand how business archives can be used 
in general history research as well as in economic and business history.

There is no charge for the event but places will be restricted and 
allocated on a first come first served basis. Contact Chris Colvin 
<c.l.colvin at lse.ac.uk> to register. Last year's workshop - which was 
hosted by the Baring Archives at ING Bank - was judged  by participants 
to be a great success and led to many new and interesting research 
projects. We expect this second workshop to be just as successful.

Provisional Programme for Thursday 15 January 2009:
10:00 - 10:30 Registration and reception at N M Rothschild & Sons
10:30 - 11:30 Valerie Johnson, National Archives: 'What's the use? Your 
research and business archives'
11:30 - 12:30 Peter Scott, University of Reading: 'Where to begin?
Searching for primary sources in business history'
12:30 - 15:00 Sandwich lunch around the archive expositions. An 
opportunity for researchers and archivists to meet
15:00 Close

As details are finalised updates will be published on 
<http://www.businessarchivescouncil.co.uk>


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