2023 - November and December - page 30
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| Issue number | 395 |
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| ISSN | 2632-7171 |
| Publication date | 1st November 2023 |
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magazine Industry News Business Archives Council cataloguing grant 2023 The Business Archives Council (BAC) is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 cataloguing grant for Business Archives is the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) for cataloguing the archives of The Addis Collection. The family firm of Addis Ltd relocated to Hertford from Hackney in 1920, 140 years after William Addis started making toothbrushes. During the 73 years they were based in Hertford, they became a market leading manufacturer and seller of toothbrushes and other brushes in the UK and worldwide and later diversified into housewares. The records held at HALS, consisting of over 150 boxes, were transferred from the company following the closure of the Hertford factory in 1993 and are currently only partially listed. They contain a great deal of material about the various activities of the company while they were active in Hertford including, most notably, the advertising and social history of the toothbrush. As well as cataloguing the records to a high standard and publishing the catalogue on their website, HALS is planning a programme of public engagement and outreach in partnership with relevant local organisations and individuals. Activities will focus on themes of advertising history, technological change, health and sustainability. HALS will also be developing workshops aimed at KS2 and KS3 students based on the Science, and Art and Design Curriculum, which will form part of their long term education offer. Hertfordshire County Council’s Executive Member for Education, Libraries & Lifelong Learning, Caroline Clapper, said: 30 “We are delighted to receive this funding and look forward to the benefits it will bring to our local community, including the events and education activities that this project will make possible. Cataloguing these records will open up previously unknown archives that contain a rich resource for social and business history. This is a piece of Hertfordshire history that everyone can relate to.” The BAC has offered the annual grant since 2010 and retains a keen interest in the development of the collections of previous winners. Last year Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) was awarded the grant for the cataloguing of the Thorp Modelmaking Archive. To date approximately 40 percent of the 30,000+ items in the collection have been catalogued and these records are now publicly available through Discovery. The university expects to have all documents catalogued by January 2024. AUB have also met their engagement goals with a number of highly successful public talks and visits from specialist groups having taken place throughout 2023. A spokesperson for AUB said: “The grant has made a tremendous difference to us and accelerated our aim of sharing this remarkable collection with researchers and the public.” For more information about the BAC cataloguing grant and a record of past winners, please visit the BAC website. James Mortlock Grant Administrator, Business Archives Council Addis premises, 1973. © Copyright Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Hertfordshire County Council |