Huge efforts are currently underway by many cultural and heritage institutions across the UK to collect, document and record the extraordinary times we are currently living through. BBC Radio 4 is inviting listeners to describe their experiences of life during…
Author: Georgina Brewis
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We are delighted that we have a further five years of support from the British Academy to continue the project’s work until at least 2024 – watch this space for some new developments in 2020, including a podcast series on…
JUST LAUNCHED: Records Management Improvement Toolkit
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new and updated online toolkit to help charities, voluntary and community groups with records management. Record keeping is an important but often overlooked part of running a voluntary organisation. It is vital…
Filling in the blanks: Why charities must take records management seriously
Getting my records has filled in blanks as I had lived a life of non-existence, I had nothing of my past, nothing was there, it was empty. This eloquent testimony from a care leaver in 2013 was shared by the…
Improving records management in charities – a new toolkit
What records do charities need to keep? How long should they be retained? What legislation and regulations on record keeping do charities need to comply with? I’m very pleased to announce that our new toolkit to help charities and voluntary organisations…
Using Voluntary Sector Archives in Teaching
Over the past few weeks I’ve been preparing the content for a new module ‘Voluntary Organisations, NGOs and the British Public, 1918-1985’ that I will teach to UCL history undergraduates from October, as well as revising a course on twentieth…