News: Archive for 1970
Risks and Rewards site to be withdrawn from service
Posted on Thursday, 29th October 2020
The Risks and Rewards website will be been withdrawn from service from 31 December 2020.
From May 2012 to December 2020 www.risksandrewards.org.uk used actual sources from The Baring Archive to open up the world of finance past and present.
Archive materials relating to slavery in The Baring Archive
Posted on Friday, 10th July 2020
The Trustees of the Baring Archive are aware that there are records in The Baring Archive that relate to slavery. Examples include documents concerning the international trade in slave grown commodities like sugar and cotton and papers relating to mortgages on plantations where these commodities were grown.
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.
New online exhibition on the portraits in The Baring Archive
Posted on Monday, 2nd July 2018
A new exhibition focussing on the portraits in The Baring Archive's collection has now been published on our website.
Francis Baring portrait on loan to Bowood House
Posted on Thursday, 21st June 2018
The Baring Archive’s portrait of Sir Francis Baring, founder of Barings is now on a long term loan to Bowood House.
Bowood House in Wiltshire has been home to the Lansdowne family since 1754 and houses a wealth of unique art and antiques with many historical treasures.
Digitising the Baring Archive
Posted on Monday, 9th April 2018
The Baring Archive is about to embark on a major digitisation project to make its archives on Latin America more accessible.
We hope that through this project we will begin to open up the collection to a wider audience to enable researchers to use the archives from anywhere in the world.
Call for papers/Seeing Like a Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America
Posted on Monday, 26th February 2018
Baring Archive Researchers may be interested in the following call for papers from the Hagley Museum and Library. The Baring Archive contains many examples of this type of document, for example the reports on business houses (HC16).
Massachusetts Historical Society Short term fellowships
Posted on Friday, 23rd February 2018
Application deadline 1 March 2018
There are many links between Barings and Boston and Baring Archive researchers may be interested in the following fellowships provided by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Professor Richard Roberts (1950-2017)
Posted on Thursday, 22nd February 2018
The Baring Archive would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to our Trustee Professor Richard Roberts who passed away just before Christmas.
The Baring Archive moving to new premises
Posted on Thursday, 19th May 2016
The Baring Archive is moving to new premises this summer and therefore we will be unavailable for the majority of May and June 2016.
Appointments are currently being made for July 2016 onwards. For more information contact the Archivist.
Messrs Baring Brothers & Co on show at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art
Posted on Wednesday, 1st October 2014
A painting of four key figures in the history of Barings is currently featuring in an exhibition in the Netherlands.
Ambrose McEvoy's painting, Messrs Baring Brothers & Co, was painted in 1926 and depicts John Baring, Cecil Baring, Alfred Mildmay and Gaspard Farrer.
Barings features on London BookBench
Posted on Wednesday, 3rd September 2014
Throughout the summer fifty BookBench sculptures have been decorating the streets of London. Barings features on the bench depicting Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, which was published in 1873.
Barings and the First World War
Posted on Wednesday, 30th July 2014
The Baring Archive has just published Barings and the First World War, an online exhibition to mark the centenary of the beginning of the conflict.
Conclusion of successful exhibition at Museum of American Finance, NY
Posted on Thursday, 10th October 2013
"Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience" has recently closed at the Museum of American Finance (MOAF) in New York. The exhibition, which opened in December 2012, was extended from its planned closure date in April 2013. It was seen by more than 25,000 people.
An evening with the Barings
Posted on Wednesday, 18th September 2013
Hampshire Record Office will be hosting a repeat of the successful "An evening with the Barings" event on Monday 23rd September from 5pm to 7.45pm.
Baring Archive featured by Bloomberg News
Posted on Thursday, 7th March 2013
The Baring Archive has made the news in a Bloomberg article on the Falklands Referendum.
In 1824, Barings lead managed a £1 million bond for the State of Buenos Aires however, in 1828, the Argentine Government defaulted.
Remarkably, after some twenty years of negotiations, the Argentine Government offered to settle the debt by dropping their claim to the Falkland islands.
Oral history extracts now available online
Posted on Friday, 1st March 2013
Extracts of a series of oral history interviews are now available in an online exhibition on The Baring Archive's website.
The extracts give an insight into what it was like to work at Barings from 1940 through to the 1990s. Topics covered include the Second World War, recruitment, computerisation, globalisation and the 1995 crisis.
The Baring Archive in Hampshire
Posted on Monday, 18th February 2013
Until mid-March, visitors to Hampshire Record Office will be able to find out more about Barings. An exhibition to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of Barings is now on display in the lobby of the records centre.
Barings was founded in 1762 by John, Francis and Charles Baring.
TBAL celebrates foundation of Barings
Posted on Friday, 18th January 2013
On the evening of Monday 7th January 2013 The Baring Archive held a symposium and reception to mark 250 years since the establishment of John and Francis Baring & Co on Christmas Day 1762.
The Baring Archive at the Museum of American Finance, NY
Posted on Wednesday, 12th December 2012
The Baring Archive is delighted to announce the opening of "Barings in America: An Interactive Investment Experience" at the Museum of American Finance in New York.
"Barings in America" will provide engaging details about Barings' significant US investments and their contributions to the growth of the nation and its industry.
EABH 2013 Young Scholar Workshop
Posted on Thursday, 6th December 2012
The European Association for Banking and Financial History invites the submission of paper proposals relating to:
Foreign Financial Institutions & National Financial Systems
for presentation at the 2013 Young Scholar Workshop on 3 March 2013 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Economics.
For more information please visit http://www.eabh.info/pdf/Call%20for%20Papers122012.pdf
The Baring Archive at Manor House, Lee
Posted on Thursday, 8th November 2012
From Saturday 10 November to Monday 31 December (with the exception of 12-14 December) visitors to the Manor House, Lee will be able to find out more about the Barings, who owned the property from 1796 to 1898.
The Baring Archive in Exeter
Posted on Wednesday, 26th September 2012
Until Wednesday 31st October the Devon Heritage Centre is displaying an exhibition of material drawn from The Baring Archive to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of Barings Bank.
EABH Call for Papers
Posted on Monday, 17th September 2012
Foreign Financial Institutions and National Financial Systems
The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) e.V.
The Baring Archive to host Business Archives Council conference
Posted on Wednesday, 22nd August 2012
The Baring Archive will host this year's Business Archives Council conference in November. The theme of the conference is "Born This Way: Business Archives and the Digital Record". For more information and to book a place, please visit the Business Archives Council's website.
New Risks & Rewards website launched
Posted on Thursday, 2nd August 2012
What do you know about the world of high finance? How good would you be as an investor?
Using actual sources from The Baring Archive, this site opens up the world of finance past and present.