Message
The 2008
conference of the Religious Archives Group will be held at the British Library
Conference Centre, Euston
Road, London on
Monday, 14th April. The
theme of the Conference is “Sight and Sound in Religious Archives;
audio-visual materials - their development, management and use.” The varied
programme includes presentations on photographs relating to the Salvation Army,
the Black Christian presence in Britain, Welsh missions in India as well as
images in the British Library Collections. Other topics are oral archives in the
Methodist
Church, religious music
recordings in the British Library and Scottish Catholic life on film. There will
also be a unique opportunity to tour the sound studios in the new British
Library Conservation Centre. The Conference fee, including lunch, is £45. For
further details and to download the booking form see the Group’s web page
at: http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag/conference08.html