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Digitised Collections site now accessible online
Posted on Monday, 1st July 2019
We are pleased to announce that our Digitised Collections site is now accessible online. The site enables priority areas of the archive to be made more accessible to researchers and the general public, opening up the collection to people from all over the world.
Baring portraits on show at the Guildhall
Posted on Thursday, 24th January 2019
Two portraits from the Baring Archive's collection are currently on display at the Guildhall Art Gallery.
James Sant's 1872 portrait of George, Cecil and Everard Baring and E Tayleur's portrait of 3rd Lord Revelstoke as a boy have been loaned to the exhibition Seen and Heard: Victorian Children in the Frame.
Material selection for Digitisation
Posted on Friday, 18th January 2019
The Baring Archive's Charlotte Willett has shared our approach on selecting material for digitisation at a number of events, most recently at the National Archives' Let's Get Digital event.
View her presentation or go straight to our Baring Archive Digitisation Selection Model.
Digitisation Pilot Project Update
Posted on Wednesday, 5th September 2018
The Baring Archive has made significant progress with its six-month pilot project to make its archives on Argentina more accessible.
6958 documents telling the story of Baring’s business in Argentina have now been imaged. The documents cover the period 1814 to 1925.
Business History Conference 2019 call for papers
Posted on Monday, 30th July 2018
The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference will take place at the Hilton Cartagena de Indias, Colombia from 14-16 March 2019.
The theme of the conference will be Globalization and De-Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth.
Proposals are due 1 October 2018. For more information visit the conference web page.