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Meet the Archivists: Unlocking the Research Potential of Business Archives - 9 November 2012, Glasgow

This workshop held at the Centre for Business History in Scotland brings together academics and archivists to discuss and explore with students how business archive collections can be used for their research.

• Are you an undergraduate, masters or PhD research student?
• Would you like to know more about unlocking rich and varied business archive sources?

Scotland’s businesses and industries have been crucial in shaping its economic and social development and they also reflect the contribution and breadth of activity that Scotland’s business, industry and enterprise has made, and continues to make, to the world economy.

We will demonstrate to you how these rich business archive collections can be used to investigate and research a variety of topics in different academic disciplines from economic, business, social, gender and labour histories, management studies and politics and industrial relations to sociology, linguistics and architecture.  For example:

• Social history research into societal attitudes to death using funeral ledgers
• Linguistic analysis of the language used by industry
• Trends in marketing and advertising
• The impact of industry and business on the built environment

Please bring this event to the attention of anyone you think might benefit from attending. To register for this free event, please visit the following link: http://scottisharchives.eventbrite.com

PROGRAMME

09:45   Coffee

10:15   Welcome, Alan Cameron

Academics on business themes and evidence used in their research

10.30   Alan McKinlay, Heriot-Watt University  - A clerical romance: Mr Notman gets Married, (and sacked), 1934

11.15   Andrew Perchard, University of Strathclyde  - Aluminiumville: Government, Global Business & the Scottish Highlands

Perspectives on Business Archives

12:00   Discussion panel with archivists.

• Chair: Ray Stokes
• Rachel Hosker, Scottish Borders Council ( Local Authority Archives)
• Lesley Richmond, Glasgow University Archive Services ( University Archives)
• Christine McCafferty, Diageo PLC ( Corporate Archives)
• Alison Rosie, National Register of Archives for Scotland (National Collections)

Meet the Archivists 

13:00   Lunch and Archive Displays

This will be an opportunity for delegates to explore archive collections and discuss their research ideas with archivists from repositories across Scotland with key business archive collections.

Afternoon Session

14:30   Practical demonstration - Finding business archive collections online

14:50   Tony Slaven - Using Business Archives for Academic Research

15.30   Alan Cameron

16:00   End

Victoria Brown

Research Officer

SCA

SCOTTISH COUNCIL ON ARCHIVES

General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY

T:    0131 535 1362

M:  (+44) 787 520 0697

www.scoarch.org.uk

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