Welcome to the BAC's Membership Hub

Our objectives are to:

Promote the preservation of business records of historical importance;

Supply advice and information on business archives and modern records;

Encourage interest in and study of business history and archives.

The Council produces an electronic newsletter and past publications are available online. Other Council resources include Managing Business Archives and Business History Explorer. In recent years surveys of the archives of brewing, banking and shipbuilding have been published, as has a survey of the archives of 1,000 of the oldest registered companies in Britain.

The Council is a registered charity and derives much of its income from the annual subscriptions of its members. These include business organisations, libraries and other institutions, and individual archivists, records managers, business people and historians. An annual conference gives members the opportunity to meet, as well as to hear papers on themes of current interest.

Download an explanatory leaflet to find out more about the Council's activities and how to explore business archives.