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Re: Pharmaceutical Company archives
>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:13:15 -0500
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>APSU.EDU>, originally sent by Lesley M Richmond <L.Richmond@ARCHIVES.GLA.AC.UK>
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> The Historical Records of the Pharmaceutical Industry
> A Symposium sponsored by The Wellcome Trust
>
>In 1995, following a grant awarded by The Wellcome Trust, the Business
>Archive Council (BAC) has been locating, listing and classifying the
>archive material of the pharmaceutical industry at manufacturing,
>wholesaling and retail levels. This has created a database of over
>400 companies, past and present. With the survey nearing completion,
>the BAC will be holding a Symposium, The Historical Records of the
>Pharmaceutical Industry, at the University of Westminster, on Friday,
>23 May 1997, from 10am to 5pm. Archivists, historians, and anyone
>concerned in preserving records of the pharmaceutical industry, who
>may be interested in attending the Symposium should contact Dr Julie
>Stevenson at the BAC on 0171-234 0400 before Friday, 25 April 1997.
>Places are very limited and will be allocated in order of the return
>of the booking slip attached
>
> Business Archives Council
> (Registered Charity Number 313336)
>
> The Historical Records of the Pharmaceutical Industry
>
> A Symposium sponsored by The Wellcome Trust
> on
> Friday, 23 May 1997
> at the
> University of Westminster, Marylebone Road Building, London NW1 7L
>
>
> Programme
>
>Chair: Dr Geoffrey Tweedale (Manchester Metropolitan University)
>
>1000-1030 Assembly and Morning Coffee
>
>
>1030 Dr J G L Burnby The early days of the pharmaceutical industry
> (British Society for the History of Pharmacy)
>
>1130 Mr T A B Corley The changing structure of Britain's pharmaceutical
> industry, 1870-1970 (University of Reading)
>
>1230-1330 Buffet Lunch
>
>1330 Dr Edgar Jones Writing a pharmaceutical company history
> (Glaxo Wellcome plc)
>
>1415 Ms Katey Logan The access and use of company archives -
> Boots' perspective (Boots plc)
>
>1500 Dr Julie Stevenson (Business Archives Council) The BAC survey of
> the pharmaceutical industry: the creation of an electronic
> research facility
>
>1600-1645 Tea and Discussion - Database demonstration
>
>
>Lesley Richmond (Deputy Archivist)
>Archives & Business Records Centre
>University of Glasgow
>77-81 Dumbarton Road Tel: 0141-330-6494
>Glasgow G11 6PP Fax: 0141-330-4158
>Scotland, U.K. E-Mail: L.Richmond@arts.gla.ac.uk
>URL: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Archives/arcbrc.htm
>
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