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The Business Archive Council and Business Archive Council Scotland are collaborating to produce a new series of business archive focused learning events.

Business Bites is an initiative by BAC and BACS to encourage conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives across the UK, many of whom work alone, to share our experiences. Regular social meet ups will be held every few months, with a rotating theme to kick start conversations and allow you to meet your peers. Anything and everything business archives will be openly discussed among friends.

Business Bites take place bi-monthly on the last Wednesday of the given month. Each event will last an hour each and focus on anything and everything related to Business Archives. Some events are Events will be held virtually via Zoom, the programme for this year’s series is below,

Date	Topic	Speaker	Open to
31^st May	Research Using Business Archives	Dr Alix Green Dr David Churchill	Everyone
26^th July	Capturing Diverse Voices	The Macallan Nationwide	Members Only
27^th September	Sustainability in Archives	ARA Sustainable Environment Group London Metropolitan Archive	Open to all
29^th November	Modern Collections Development	abrdn	Members Only

Booking is now open for our May event, ‘Research Using Business Archives’, with booking details for future events to follow in due course.

Click here to book onto Research Using Business Archives, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-using-business-archives-tickets-622360425787

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Research Using Business Archives

Where: Online – via Zoom

When: Wednesday, 31^st May 2023, 12.30pm – 13.30pm

What: Dr Alix Green and Dr David Churchill join us to talk about the research they are currently undertaking using business archives. This event will be of interest to those who are currently or considering using business archives as part of their academic research, but also to archivists and record keepers who are interested in opening their collections to an academic audience.

Alix Gren moved into academia after a career in policy, strategy and government affairs. Her PhD focused on using history in public policy development, after completing BA and MPhil degrees in History. Alix is a historian of contemporary Britain and teaches a range of topics in 20th/21st-century British history and public history. Her research focuses on political culture, government and policymaking. Her recent book, 'History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government' draws on notions of public scholarship, expertise and the nature of historical thinking.

David Churchill is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice in the School of Law, University of Leeds. An historian by background, his research focuses on policing, security and crime control in modern Britain, and on the uses and significance of historical approaches to criminology and criminal justice studies. He has worked for some years on the history of security technologies and the security industry, primarily from research on the Chubb & Son collection at the London Metropolitan Archives. He is currently in the early stages of work on a book that will address the commodification of security and its social consequences from the 1780s to the 1990s.