Accounts current ledgers. Courtesy of The Rothschild Archive.

Accounts current ledgers. Courtesy of The Rothschild Archive.

Surveys

Wendy Habgood, Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. A guide to historical records (Manchester 1994)

Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton, The brewing industry: a guide to historical records (Manchester, 1990)

Lesley Richmond and Bridget Stockford, Company archives: a survey of the records of 1000 of the first registered companies in England and Wales(Aldershot, 1986)

Lesley Richmond & Alison Turton (eds.), Directory of corporate archives (Business Archives Council, 4th ed., 1996)

LA Ritchie, The shipbuilding industry: a guide to historical records (Manchester, 1992)

Alison Turton & John Orbell, British Banking. A Guide to Historical Records (Aldershot 2001). This publication updated a previous survey. Available to members at cost of £50.

Lesley Richmond, Julie Stevenson & Alison Turton, The Pharmaceutical Industry. A Guide to Historical Records (Aldershot, 2003)

Other

Alison Turton (ed.), Managing Business Archives (Butterworth-Heinemann and the Business Archives Council, Oxford, 1991)

John Orbell, A Guide to Tracing the History of a Business (Gower, Aldershot, 1987)

Directory of Corporate Archives, (BAC 1996)

Journals

Two issues of the Business Archives Council's journal are published annually, one covering technical aspects: Business Archives: Principles and Practice; the other, Business Archives: Sources and History, covering business archives as source material for historians and entitled.


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